News Round-Up

• “Republican fury at Biden administration’s ‘absolutely reckless’ decision to give another $2 million taxpayer grant to EcoHealth Alliance to research bat coronaviruses” – British zoologist Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance, the non-profit at the centre of the COVID-19 lab leak theory, will resume the research after former President Donald Trump suspended the grant in April 2020, reports DailyMail.com.
• “The harm caused by masks” – A new review study out of Germany suggests that the excess carbon dioxide breathed in during mask wearing can have substantial negative health consequences, particularly in pregnant women, children and adolescents, writes Jeffrey H. Anderson in City Journal.
• “GB News told to meet Ofcom after Covid jabs likened to mass murder” – GB News has been summoned for a meeting with the regulator Ofcom after a contributor, Naomi Wolf, compared Covid vaccinations to “mass murder”, according to the Times.
• “Andrew Bridgen joins anti-woke Reclaim Party after expulsion from Tories” – The move would give Laurence Fox’s anti-lockdown party its first MP in the House of Commons, according to the Telegraph.
• “We need to end the war on nuclear power” – Germany’s phase-out of nuclear energy is a colossal error, says Ralph Schoellhammer in Spiked.
• “Furious mother shouts at Just Stop Oil activists holding up son’s bus to school” – Activists were back slow-marching through the streets of London yet again this morning – being monitored by police who walked alongside them around the Camden area, reports MailOnline.
• “Engineers must ‘save this planet from increasing catastrophe’, Charles urges” – The King uses his first post-Coronation engagement to raise the alarm – again! – about ‘catastrophic’ global warming, according to the Telegraph.
• “Gas prices in Europe may treble, warns Goldman Sachs” – Analysts fear rising use will drive up wholesale prices in winter, according to the Times.
• “German planners propose immigration framework for ‘climate refugees’” – Eugyppius explains efforts to consolidate the whole establishment political programme around climate change mitigation.
• “Cambridge don ready to lead war on woke as PM’s first free speech tsar” – Prof. Arif Ahmed expected to be confirmed in the post, which will investigate universities and student unions attempting to curtail campus debate, reports the Telegraph.
• “Ignore the polls. Rejoining the EU is a deluded fantasy” – Whenever anyone says they want to rejoin, ask them whether they’re willing to sacrifice the pound to achieve it, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “Enough with these phoney free-speech warriors” – The outrageous treatment of those republican protesters has prompted an orgy of hypocrisy on the Left, writes Fraser Myers in Spiked.
• “Whether you are a monarchist or a republican, you should be concerned about the Coronation crackdown on peaceful protest.” – The right to protest is not absolute, but these arrests appear to have been without the basis of intelligence, and with disregard for the clear liaison with the police ahead of time, says Laura Dodsworth.
• “Met Chief doubles down on Coronation arrests” – Crowd cheered my officers, says Sir Mark Rowley in attack on “ill-informed commentary”, according to the Times.
• “Our political economy is broken” – Matt Goodwin shares some worrying statistics on jobs and welfare in modern Britain.  
• “Joanna Cherry and the fight for women’s rights” – In the Spectator, Stephen Daisley explains his support for MP Joanna Cherry as she fights for women’s rights.
• “Tom Hanks says he would boycott books that are rewritten to avoid offending ‘modern sensitivities’” – Hanks was asked whether he supports censorship of problematic language in works by Roald Dahl and Agatha Christie, reports the Telegraph.
• “Oxford students offered support for Kathleen Stock talk” – The Oxford Union will provide “welfare resources” to help students cope with a talk by Prof. Kathleen Stock this month, according to the Times.
• “Never trust a politician who can’t say what a woman is” – ‘What is a woman?’ is the most important political question of our times, according to Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Bud Light’s sales drop is accelerating amid Dylan Mulvaney fiasco – and is now spilling into other Bud brands” – U.S. retail sales of Bud Light were down 23.4% versus a year ago, according to the New York Post, citing Bump Williams Consulting and NielsenIQ data.
• “During my research, I spoke to a man who thinks he is a dragon” – Meet the ‘therians’ – people who believe they are animals trapped in a human body, says Michael Bond in UnHerd.
• “It’s filthy… and utterly corrupt” – Tucker Carlson takes aim at Fox News as he announces the launch of a new Twitter show and explains how the news business “misleads” the public, reports DailyMail.com.

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