News Round-Up

• “Parents more likely to question routine childhood vaccinations post-Covid: research report” – Only 39% of respondents said they accept all recommended childhood vaccines and have no doubts or concerns about vaccinating their child – a drop from 48% in 2017, says Tyler Durden in Zero Hedge.
• “Covid vaccine injuries: in the eye of the storm?” – A new study published in the journal NPJ Vaccines finds good and bad news after looking into the risk of retinal vascular occlusion – typically caused by blood clots in the tiny blood vessels of the eye – after Covid vaccination, reports Swiss Policy Research.   
• “What good comes from gain-of-function?” – In Brownstone, Thomas Buckley grapples with the definition and risk-reward calculation for gain-of-function research in the context of COVID-19.
• “Electric cars losing their value twice as fast as petrol alternatives” – Early adopters have seen huge amounts wiped off the value of their purchases, reports the Telegraph.
• “Sheer weight of electric vehicles could sink our bridges” – Councils receive notice that EVs are 33% heavier than petrol vehicles and 1 in 20 bridges are “substandard”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Rolls-Royce mini-nukes project under threat as Bill Gates eyes bid” – Bill Gates is eyeing a bid to build Britain’s first mini-nuclear reactor in a direct challenge to Rolls-Royce which is scrambling to secure a Government contract, according to the Telegraph.
• “King Charles: a reactionary ruler” – Our green, mystical monarch harbours a deep suspicion of modernity, science and freedom, writes Tim Black in Spiked.
• “Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer is looking ‘very closely’ at BBC funding” – Frazer praised the BBC’s coverage of the Coronation, but said that a review of the funding model is under way, and will be looking at a “variety” of options for funding, reports MailOnline.
• “Bridgerton star Adjoa Andoh stuns ITV presenters by calling the Buckingham Palace balcony ‘terribly white’ during live Coronation coverage” – The star, whose father was of Ghanaian origin, was commentating for the network on their programme hosted by Tom Bradby and Julie Etchingham, according to MailOnline.
• “The fact that collapses the case for slavery reparations” – The case for slavery reparations seems to be growing louder every day. In the Spectator, Andreas Koureas presents one fact that he suggests defeats this case.  
• “Black Californians could get $1.2 million each in reparations” – Panel set up by state’s Democratic Governor, Gavin Newsom, recommends total payout of $500 billion for years of discrimination suffered, according to the Telegraph.
• “The Left sees ‘unconscious bias’ everywhere. But it’s oddly blind to blatant antisemitism” – Three editors saw the controversial cartoon of Richard Sharp before it appeared in the Guardian, but none said anything. Camilla Long asks why in the Times.  
• “The unbearable whiteness of being” – The American Physical Society views the existence of white privilege in physics as being both scientific and not scientific, argues theoretical physicist and author Lawrence Krauss in Quillette.
• “Cambridge students protest Stonewall co-founder’s talk” – An address from Stonewall founder Simon Fanshawe – who has condemned the “narcissism” of the movement he once championed – is the latest in a series of contested free speech talks hosted by Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge, writes Lara Brown in UnHerd.
• “Richard Dreyfuss slams Oscars’ new woke inclusivity rules that ‘treat people like children’” – The Jaws star hit out at the woke rules during an episode of Firing Line, saying “they make me vomit”, according to DailyMail.com.  
• “Leftists jump on NYC subway tracks, brawl with NYPD over Jordan Neely death” – Left-wing activists jumped on the subway tracks in New York City over the weekend, temporarily bringing a part of the subway system to a halt, as they clashed with police over the death of Jordan Neely this week, according to the Daily Wire.
• “Medical evidence over trans ideology: welcome to the doctors’ resistance” – In the Sunday Times, Hadley Freeman explains how a network of clinicians in the U.K. and Ireland is standing up to gender ideology.
• “‘Tide begins to turn’ for the women cancelled by trans campaigners” – The poet Jenny Lindsay (who was subjected to cancellation after a tweet she sent in 2019) tells her story after MP Joanna Cherry condemns “new form of McCarthyism” based on gender ideology, reports the Sunday Times.
• “Chicago gay bars boycott Anheuser-Busch as brewer shuns Dylan Mulvaney” – Five Chicago gay bars are boycotting Anheuser-Busch for distancing itself from transgender social media star Dylan Mulvaney after Bud Light marketing collaboration drew conservatives’ ire, reports the New York Post.
• “The making of an identity crisis” – The rise of gender-confused children is nothing to celebrate, argues Frank Furedi in Spiked.
• “My tweets are all moderated by my staff and have been for the last 12 years” – Andrew Bridgen MP reveals that his controversial tweet – where he cited a cardiologist who called the Covid vaccine campaign the “biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust” – was approved and posted by his Conservative Association Chairman.

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