News Round-Up

• “Workers miss their pre-Covid jobs as Great Resignation becomes Great Regret” – Most office workers who quit their jobs during the pandemic now regret the decision, with almost three quarters pining for their pre-Covid roles, the Telegraph reports.
• “Heartbreaking rollcall of children who became victims of lockdown” – The COVID-19 lockdown has produced a heartbreaking rollcall of children who became victims of tragic deaths at the hands of those who are meant to take care of them, says the Mail.
• “Is Germany persecuting lockdown sceptics?” – Sabine Beppler-Spahl in Spiked says the arrest of Querdenken leader Michael Ballweg raises some troubling questions.
• “How many deaths were caused by the Covid vaccines?” – Norman Fenton takes a look at the question.
• “How wrong was I about Covid infection fatality rate?” – Professor Sunetra Gupta writes in UnHerd that she was mocked at the time, but new data supports her thinking.
• “Beware Catastrophising Climate Models and Activists” – The dedicated international bureaucracy will have a powerful vested interest in ongoing climate crises and serially repeating pandemics, says Ramesh Thakur in Brownstone.
• “The New Pause lengthens to eight years nine months” – Christopher Monckton notes the continuing refusal of the data to play along with the alarmist agenda in WUWT.
• “Lord Lawson, the sceptic hero of our times” – TCW‘s Kathy Gyngell celebrates the climate scepticism of the former Tory Chancellor.
• “How Sadiq Khan is punishing Londoners” – The London Mayor is using financial blackmail to go after opponents of his anti-car agenda, writes James Heartfield in Spiked.
• “Barrister ‘proud’ to prosecute Just Stop Oil activists who shut Dartford Crossing” – A barrister has proclaimed how “proud” he is following the prosecution of two Just Stop Oil protesters as lawyers refuse to take on cases concerning climate change activists, reports the Telegraph.
• “William appoints Jacinda Ardern to senior role in his ‘climate action’ project” – Prince William has said he is “honoured” to appointing the former New Zealand PM to the Earthshot Prize Board of Trustees, reports Unity News Network.
• “Teachers’ strike not about pay but controlling ‘brutally racist state’, union leader says” – Teachers strikes are about “taking back control from a brutally racist state”, the new far-Left National Education Union leader has said, according to the Telegraph.
• “Questioning Humza Yousaf’s competence is ‘racist’, says SNP MSP” – The Telegraph reports that Karen Adam claims he’d been unfairly criticised because of his skin colour but opponents insist the attacks were quite obviously based on his “woeful record”.
• “Say ‘pregnant people’, NHS watchdog tells staff in gender neutral drive” – The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has urged staff to say “pregnant people” in a drive to use gender neutral language, reports the Telegraph.
• “Pupils submitting misogynistic essays using coded language, claims teaching union” – The National Education Union’s annual conference heard that it had become “commonplace” to hear misogynistic remarks in corridors, with students submitting essays that showed a worrying attitude towards women, the Telegraph reports, as the moral panic about boys’ behaviour rolls on.
• “In Defence Of The British Empire” – Patrick Clarke offers a defence of the much-maligned political phenomenon.
• “Oxford College accused of ‘cancelling’ St George’s Day after row over Eid dinner on April 23rd” – An Oxford college has been accused of cancelling St. George’s Day in a row over an Eid formal dinner being held on April 23rd, the Telegraph reports.
• “Ministers could stop trans women from accessing single-sex hospital wards and competing against biological women in sport with overhaul of the Equality Act” – Kemi Badenoch, the Women and Equalities Minister, has written to Britain’s equalities watchdog about updating legislation to make clear that “sex” refers to “biological sex”, the Mail reports.

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