News Round-Up

• “Patients are left facing a two day wait for an ambulance as they are hit by delays in paramedics arriving and getting stuck outside hospitals for a spot in A&E” – There were at least 201,000 cancellations last week when junior doctors staged a four-day walkout, resulting in an average of 26,145 medics being absent each day, reports the Mail.
• “Covid vaccine injury victims ‘betrayed’ as payout claims plagued with delays” – Hundreds of people left with debilitating conditions have waited more than a year for their applications for compensation to be assessed, the Telegraph reports.
• “The GP will see you now… but only if you go private!” – Independent healthcare providers in the U.K. have reported a surge in demand since the pandemic began, with patients citing a lack of in-person consultations with their NHS GP, according to the Mail.
• “The mad rush for ventilators in the Covid killing fields” – Roger Watson and Niall McCrae in TCW on the tragic loss of life in the spring 2020 deadly ventilator panic.
• “Excess Deaths Back With a Vengeance in the U.K. and Germany” – Igor Chudov notes excess mortality of 21% in the U.K. and 11% in Germany in the most recent week.
• “Devil’s Advocate – Responding to Lockdown Apologists’ Strongest Argument: The ‘Pure Fear’ Theory” – Michael Senger argues that the ‘pure fear’ defence of the response to Covid does not withstand scrutiny.
• “Nürnberg Health Department issues a novel outdoor mask recommendation to combat the nefarious threat of … climate change-enhanced hay fever” – Another day, another asininity from our public health overlords, writes Eugyppius.
• “Eco-zealots cancel the snooker: World Championship game is postponed after Just Stop Oil protester jumped on table during match and tossed orange paint over it while fans jeered and shouted ‘get him off!’” – A Just Stop Oil protester tossed orange paint over a snooker table during the World Championship before being dragged away on Monday. the Mail reports.
• “The ridiculous renaming of the Brecon Beacons” – The beloved Welsh national park has been given a Net Zero rebrand – or should that be Year Zero, asks Tim Black in Spiked.
• “Net Zero will make flying more expensive” – Ross Clark in the Spectator takes a close look at what Net Zero means for flying.
• “Now Animal Rebellion vow to unleash a summer of chaos after eco-fanatics tried to disrupt the Grand National amid fears that Epsom Derby and Ascot could be next – as trainer blames protesters for his horse’s death after fall on Saturday” – Animal Rising has vowed to unleash a summer of chaos after the eco-group disrupted the Grand National during which a racehorse died after falling at the first fence, the Mail reports.
• “Gillian Keegan insists teachers saying ‘good morning, girls’ is ‘absolutely fine’” – The Education Secretary intervenes after it was reported that a teacher was made to apologise to children over the classic classroom greeting, the Telegraph reports.
• “Trans killer in female jail demands sex-change ‘for comfort in shower’” – A transgender murderer serving a life sentence in a women’s prison has begged the Scottish Government to allow him to have surgery and claimed he would have been less aggressive as a woman, the Mail reports.
• “Feminist academic says university ‘confiscated’ her study on Britain’s gender wars, banned her from publishing ‘dangerous’ findings and hounded her out of a job – as she brings discrimination claim against bosses” – A sociologist behind a study into whether social scientists at universities feel censored over their views on trans issues says she had her views censored by her university, the Mail reports.
• “Single-sex schools can reject transgender pupils” – The new guidelines mean head teachers will also not have to call children by their preferred pronouns, dispelling fears of discrimination claims, according to the Telegraph.
• “Boys have been left devastated by the woke attitude to masculinity” – Perhaps the fact that some young men are looking up to Andrew Tate will force us to sit up and take action, suggests Nick Fletcher in the Telegraph.
• “The Nord Stream Files” – Read Bournbrook‘s report on the bombs beneath the Baltic.
• “The truth about racism in Britain” – Why can’t we celebrate that racial discrimination is mercifully rare, asks Rakib Ehsan in Spiked.
• “Women’s Institute faces a revolt as group launches bid to overturn policy allowing transgender members to join” – The Women’s Institute is facing a revolt over its policy on allowing transgender members to join, according to the Mail.

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