News Round-Up

• “How the great home working experiment fell apart” – A brutal and widespread tech downturn has shifted power from employee to employer, says James Titcomb in the Telegraph.
• “Arcturus, the Covid strain sparking alarm in India, is already in U.K.” – Almost 50 cases of the variant, a spin-off of Omicron, have been spotted in Britain, according to the Mail. I’m sure you’ve already started panicking.
• “No evidence face masks protected vulnerable from Covid, health officials admit” – There is not enough evidence to suggest medical-grade face masks protect vulnerable people from Covid, health officials have admitted, according to the Telegraph.
• “Long Covid or Long Mask?” – The Naked Emperor looks at a study that asks whether some people with ‘Long Covid’ actually have mask-induced exhaustion syndrome (MIES).
• “CDC Partners With ‘Social and Behaviour Change’ Initiative to Silence Vaccine Hesitancy” – Katie Spence for the Epoch Times details yet another sinister U.S. Government censorship initiative.
• “One Thousand One Hundred Thirty Five Days” – Writing for Brownstone, Justin Hart says that it’s vital to draw lessons from pandemic mistakes so that “future responses are more balanced, open and successful in tackling public health crises without compromising rights and public confidence”.
• “Retrospective censorship: the new punishment for Covid dissidents” – Professor Norman Fenton is appalled that the censors are now coming after his pre-Covid and non-Covid publications.
• “Why did Peter Daszak change his mind?” – New documents reveal that the virus-hunter warned against risky research, says Ian Birrell for UnHerd. It was just to convince funders to give him lots of money to develop ‘countermeasures’ though.
• “All-electric is a car crash waiting to happen” – Iain Martin argues in the Times that instead of “unfeasible targets to ban petrol and diesel” we need “pragmatic solutions such as e-fuels”. Or we could just stick with petrol and diesel?
• “Millions of drivers are having lives destroyed by virtue-signalling politicians” – “Motorists are angry, and the local elections next month might well show our politicians that we aren’t going to take it any more,” says Howard Cox in the Sun.
• “ULEZ expansion could be stopped: Sadiq Khan’s decision to roll out hated scheme to all of London may have been unlawful, High Court says” – Five councils who launched the legal battle – Bexley, Bromley, Harrow, Hillingdon and Surrey – have been given permission to proceed with their case for judicial review, the Mail reports.
• “Too young to be blamed for rape — why, then, would you let them vote?” – Rod Liddle in the Times on the latest incoherent nonsense from the People’s Democratic Republic of Scotland.
• “Charles, the identitarian” – His ‘multicultural’ monarchy will only divide Britain, argues Fraser Myers in Spiked.
• “Oxford University ‘rewarding slavery twice’ by repatriating Benin Bronzes” – Oxford University has been told not to “reward slavery twice” by returning Benin Bronzes to Africa as it emerged that its repatriation plans have stalled, the Telegraph reports.
• “‘They don’t understand me!’ Trans activist Dylan Mulvaney hits back at critics of Bud Light campaign – as beer giant’s parent company Anheuser- Busch suffers $3billion loss” – Partnering with the trans activist appears to have been a very poor business decision. In the Mail.
• “Looting, Restitution, and Gas: An Update on the Benin Bronzes” – Writing for History Reclaimed, Mike Wells calls on the Charity Commission to block any further misguided efforts at ‘restitution’ and ‘repatriation’.
• “Channel 4 ‘body positive’ show where adults pose nude in front of children receives almost 1,000 Ofcom complaints” – Channel 4 has attracted almost 1,000 Ofcom complaints over Naked Education, in which adults pose nude in front of children, reports the Telegraph.
• “Resurrecting Scotland’s gender law battle is an error for Humza Yousaf” – Humza Yousaf’s decision to challenge the British government in court over Scottish gender laws is a tactical play that confirms just how little the new First Minister knows about tactics, says Stephen Daisley in the Spectator.
• “The New Elite is in complete denial” – The not-so-liberal establishment refuses to acknowledge its own power, says Matthew Goodwin in Spiked.
• “£120,000 isn’t enough to compensate Gareth or their young child for the loss of a wife and mother” – Watch Toby on GB News criticise the Government vaccine injury payment scheme, as Lisa’s Shaw’s bereaved husband takes AstraZeneca to court over his wife’s death from the vaccine.

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