News Round-Up

• “Why doesn’t Britain regret lockdown?” – Freddie Sayers writes that three years on, voters remain in favour, according to polling for UnHerd.
• “Ghost children: the pupils who never came back after lockdown” – Lockdowns proved a disaster for young people at every stage of their development, says Harriet Sergeant in the Spectator.
• “The Banality of Evil, 21st Century Edition” – “Rather than watching society dissolve into an immoral abyss, where patient-centred care is a dim and distant memory, we must keep pointing out facts and truths, no matter how normal the exact opposite has become,” says the HART Group.
• “Long Lockdown has left Britain infantilised” – The U.K. cannot recover if millions continue to feel they have no agency over the course of their lives, says David Frost in the Telegraph.
• “How lockdown exposed our illiberal elites” – Three years ago today, authoritarianism came to Britain – and our ‘liberal elites’ cheered it on, writes Fraser Myers in Spiked.
• “The Lab Leak and the Counter Measures: What Really Happened” – Debbie Lerman in Brownstone makes the case for the pandemic being a conspiracy of the international biodefence network responding to virus they knew they had created.
• “How They Convinced Trump to Lock Down” – Jeffrey A. Tucker in Brownstone ponders why Trump flipped on March 10th 2020.
• “Vaccine damage is now indisputable, say top scientists” – Neville Hodgkinson in TCW with an overview of the latest evidence.
• “Bill Gates says ChatGPT-like AI is ‘as revolutionary as mobile phones and the internet’ – and says it could speed up creation of new vaccines” – Bill Gates expressed his excitement for progress in AI, touting it as a powerful tool to develop and test new vaccines, the Mail reports.
• “MHRA to streamline clinical trial approvals in biggest overhaul of trial regulation in 20 years” – The legislative changes will “help to make the U.K. one of the best countries in the world to conduct clinical research for patients and researchers”, according to the Government…
• “Trudeau office texts show pressure already on banks to freeze protesters’ accounts before Emergencies Act” – In February 2022, texts exchanged between two senior advisers in the Canadian Prime Minister’s Office revealed that they were putting pressure on banks to seize assets belonging to the Freedom Convoy protesters, Reclaim the Net reports.
• “Moderna CEO Admits They Are Quadrupling the Price of the Covid Jab Because Nobody Wants It” – Watch Stéphane Bancel tell Senator Bernie Sanders: “The volume we had during the pandemic gave us economies of scale we won’t have anymore. That is why it [the price] is different.”
• “Fury at woke barristers refusing to prosecute eco warriors: 120 top legal professionals to sign ‘Declaration of Conscience’ to try and keep climate activists out of the courts” – The group – who call themselves ‘Lawyers are Responsible’ – will also refuse to act on behalf of clients involved in oil and gas on the grounds that they are destroying the environment, but they have been sharply criticised for breaching the professional code which makes justice available to all, the Mail reports.
• “Claim: Insurers are Writing Off Electric Vehicles with Minor Damage” – Would you want to drive an EV whose batteries might have been subtly damaged by a minor collision, even if there were no visible signs of damage, asks WUWT.
• “A brief examination of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Assessment Reports which deal with the Physical Science Basis of climate change” – More carbon dioxide cannot cause more warming, argues the Bruges Group.
• “Trigger warnings on university texts ‘make students think they’re frail’” – The introduction of trigger warnings on university texts is teaching students to become fragile and childlike, a former university administrator has claimed, according to the Times.
• “The EU’s censorship regime is about to go global” – The authoritarian Digital Services Act means the death of free speech online, writes Normal Lewis in Spiked.
• “Did Stanford’s Tantrum Blow Up the Affirmative Action Cases?” – If diversity is so important for freedom of thought, why then are students and administrators shutting down debates in the name of diversity, asks James Piereson in Newsweek.
• “Wolf-whistling to be made illegal – and claiming it’s a joke won’t be any excuse” – Men who wolf-whistle or make sexual remarks to women will face prosecution for street harassment even if they believe it is a compliment or a joke, under legal changes announced by Suella Braverman, the Telegraph reports.
• “World Athletics votes to exclude transgender athletes who have transitioned from male to female after puberty, as Seb Coe vows it will ‘protect the female category’” – The decision was announced by the World Athletics President on Thursday in order to “prioritise fairness and the integrity of the female competition before inclusion”, reports the Mail.
• “Victories by transgender cyclists prompt protests about ‘unfair advantage’” – The debate over transgender inclusion in sport has intensified after a male-born cyclist won a prestigious women’s amateur race, the Telegraph reports.
• “Stanford equity dean who sparked fury when she ambushed conservative judge at law school event and stoked woke students’ protests brags about her behaviour and refuses to apologise” – The Mail reports that Tirien Steinbach has broken her silence in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal , where she brags about her behaviour and claims she was only there to “deescalate” the situation. I’d hate to see what escalation would look like.
• “If you don’t know who you fancy then you’re queer, schools tell children” – Edinburgh’s top state school also teaches that there are three biological sexes and suggests highly controversial concepts are facts, according to the Telegraph.
• “Rand Paul Directly Confronts Antony Blinken About COVID-19 Research Funding Records” – Watch Senator Rand Paul at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing confront Secretary of State Antony Blinken about why he is not publishing records on COVID-19 research.

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