News Round-Up

• “Dr. Fauci Could Have Said a Lot More” – Uncharacteristically pro-lab leak and anti-Fauci op-ed in the New York Times by Megan Stack: “If officials don’t trust the public, the public won’t trust them.”
• “Turns Out, Ebola Likely Leaked From a Lab as Well” – Dr. Joseph Mercola delves deeper into the 2014 Ebola outbreak and finds a natural origins story that doesn’t add up, a nearby lab working on the virus, and a lot of the same people involved as suppressed the Covid lab leak theory…
• “Sweden Did Exceptionally Well During the COVID-19 Pandemic” – Dr. Peter Gøtzsche in Brownstone on the embarrassing success of the no-lockdown country.
• “Excess Deaths, Vaccine Deaths and IgG4-Induced Suppression of the Immune System” – The Naked Emperor with an update on recent studies.
• “Overcoming the Limitations of Language” – Thorsteinn Siglaugsson looks at why so many people still believe that the madness that took hold of most of the world was justified, and how can we prevent such madness from taking hold again.
• “China’s fake science industry: how ‘paper mills’ threaten progress” – The country has become a prolific producer of academic research but fraudulent studies risk serious real-world consequences, says the FT.
• “Gone with the wind” – Renewable energy is cripplingly expensive, writes James McSweeney in the Critic.
• “EU War on Agriculture Pushback Protests Spread” – Emboldened by the recent BBB electoral victory in the Netherlands, farmers in Slovenia, Germany and Flanders are staging large protests against the EU’s war on agriculture, reports WUWT.
• “EU abandons ban of combustion engine cars – Britain needs to follow suit” – Net Zero Watch is calling on Rishi Sunak to follow suit and abandon its 2030 ban of the sale of internal combustion engine cars, reports WUWT.
• “Germany facing largest strikes in decades” – Economic hardship and opposition to green policies have created a perfect storm, writes Ralph Schoellhammer in UnHerd.
• “Landlords to get five years to hit Net Zero targets” – The Telegraph reports that buy-to-let investors face spending thousands of pounds on retro-fitting properties.
• “The foolishness of the energy windfall tax has now been proven” – Cuts in North Sea production mean that the U.K.’s potential oil and gas resources have been downgraded by 500 million barrels, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
• “Eco-barristers’ sinister attack on the sacred cab-rank rule” – Eco-activist barristers are deciding which laws are right, warns Philip Walling in TCW.
• “The BBC’s crusade for online censorship” – Marianna Spring’s relentlessly negative reporting on Elon Musk’s Twitter is straying into propaganda, says Laurie Wastell in Spiked.
• “JK Rowling: Humza Yousaf will ‘disappear through the ice’ like Nicola Sturgeon” – The Telegraph reports that the Harry Potter author made the remarks in relation to Mr. Yousaf’s support for controversial self-ID gender legislation.
• “Disney will begin to fire 7,000 of its global staff this week, CEO Bob Iger announces, after share price plunged 31% in a year following series of woke controversies” – The Walt Disney Company on Monday began 7,000 layoffs announced earlier this year, as CEO Bob Iger works to save the company some $5.5 billion, reports the Mail.
• “Jaw-droppingly disrespectful, the new Great Expectations is wilfully ignorant of the truth” – What does Steven Knight think he’s playing at in the latest BBC adaptation of a Dickens classic, asks Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
• “The Guardian cancels itself, at last” – It is some irony that the owner of the world’s wokest paper has had to issue an apology for the role that the Guardian’s founders had in transatlantic slavery, says the Spectator‘s Steerpike.
• “South Western Railway launches U.K.’s first ‘intersex-inclusive Pride train’ operated exclusively by LGBTQIA+ staff members on first journey” – The multi-coloured intersex Class 444 train will run on the South West main line between London Waterloo and Weymouth and had its first journey on Monday, the Mail reports.
• “Britain’s police need a lesson on free speech” – Officers are given extensive training on ‘diversity’, but are taught next to nothing about free expression, writes Carrie Clark for Spiked.
• “J.K. Rowling Addresses Her Critics” – As more people burned her books over the weekend, the author confronts the idea that she is “dangerous” and “transphobic” – listen to the latest Witch Trials podcast from the Free Press.

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