News Round-Up

• “Covid’s lost children must not be forgotten” – We risk leaving a cohort of the already disadvantaged behind if we don’t get them back to school immediately, writes Iain Duncan Smith in the Telegraph.
• “How Zeynep Tufekci and Jeremy Howard Masked America” – Zeynep Tufekci and Jeremy Howard played a decisive role in shifting CDC guidance and ushering in mask mandates across America, writes Michael P Senger.
• “ULEZ cameras are covered over with bags in guerilla war” – Opponents of London’s ULEZ scheme are using shopping bags to cover the cameras that photograph cars – to save drivers from the controversial daily charge, the Mail reports.
• “Sadiq Khan’s green vision risks impoverishing Britain” – Let’s not pretend Sadiq Khan’s vision is the “economic opportunity of the 21st century,” rather than one that risks impoverishing Britain during a cost-of-living crisis, writes Annabel Denham in the Spectator.
• “Germany Rebels Against EU Ban On Petrol Cars” – A growing backlash over climate-friendly policies is now hitting the German Greens, putting wobbles into the country’s three-party ruling coalition, writes Paul Homewood in Not a Lot of People Know That.
• “15 years after ESA listing as ‘threatened’ due to sea ice loss polar bears are abundant & thriving” – There is no existential emergency for polar bears or any other Arctic sea mammals due to declining summer sea ice, despite continued messages of doom from remorseless experts, according to WUWT.
• “Scotland is better off without the Greens in government” – It ought to be pretty obvious to anyone in the SNP that the Greens are more trouble than they are worth, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “Is Alex Salmond behind the SNP’s implosion?” – The ultimate beneficiary of the chaos – or at least the figure quietly gloating on the sidelines – is former first minister, Alex Salmond, writes Iain Macwhirter in the Spectator.
• “Why Kate Forbes is still the SNP’s best hope” – The gleeful vilification to which Kate Forbes has been treated has been illuminating, as has the strength and constancy of character with which she has responded, writes Stephen Daisley in the Spectator.
• “Sue Gray ‘was in talks with Labour for a year’” – The Partygate investigator who triggered a row by applying for a job as Keir Starmer’s Chief of Staff was in negotiations with Labour for around a year, according to the Mail on Sunday.
• “European judges may be overruled on Rwanda deportations” – Suella Braverman is in talks to ban ECHR injunctions that ground migrant flights, the Telegraph reports.
• “China may yet persuade Putin to end his war in Ukraine” – The centre of economic gravity has been shifting away from the West for quite some time, writes Liam Halligan in the Telegraph.
• “Bank of England groupthink has made inflation worse” – Too many of the Bank of England’s officials come from the same narrow background. That is bound to affect the quality of its decisions, says Tyler Goodspeed in the Telegraph.
• “Agatha Christie novels are being rewritten for modern audiences” – Several of the passages in Agatha Christie’s Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries have reportedly been reworked or stripped altogether in new editions of her books, the Mail reports.
• “Council officer ‘hounded out of her job amid toxic transphobia row’” – Denise Fahmy said she was “harassed and victimised” over her support for the LGB Alliance, in a vitriolic campaign waged against her at the taxpayer-funded Arts Council England, the Mail reports.
• “Transgender athlete research rejected after professor called trans women ‘men’” – Dr. John Armstrong, a scholar at King’s College London, applied to carry out a survey on whether biological males should compete in women’s track and field. But the university rejected his application, citing equality and diversity concerns, the Telegraph reports.
• “Martina Navratilova backs ban for trans athletes in women’s events” – Martina Navratilova says the world is “finally waking up” to the unfairness of biological males in women’s sport, and calls for an open category where all genders could compete together, the Mail reports.
• “Britain is leading the world in the fightback against gender extremism” – It is early days yet, but there are now reasons to be hopeful that sanity can prevail, writes Zoe Srimpel in the Telegraph.
• “Eddie Izzard says right-wing comedians tend to be ‘sexist and racist’” – Eddie Izzard is facing a backlash after claiming right-wing comedians tend to be “sexist and racist”. He made the comments during an interview with TalkTV, where he spoke about his stand-up and political careers, the Mail reports.
• “Trans woman left sobbing in JFK airport after TSA agent hit her testicles” – A transgender woman was left in tears at JFK Airport after she claimed a TSA agent punched her in the testicles while going through security, according to the New York Post. We’ve all been there.
• “Watch: Michael Gove’s silence when asked to name any of Nicola Sturgeon’s achievements” – Michael Gove falls silent for a full eight seconds when trying to think of a single good thing that Nicola Sturgeon has done. Enjoy.

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