News Round-Up

• “Inside the £1 billion AstraZeneca compensation battle” – How British families left bereaved or disabled after getting AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine are fighting for compensation to avoid financial ruin, according to MailOnline.
• “Exposed: ‘cruel’ flaws of Government-funded financial support scheme for Brits injured by AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine” – Don’t even bother trying to claim the one-off payment of £120,000 if you’re only “59% disabled”, according to MailOnline.
• “Masks and marriage: match-making in a faceless Japan” – Tokyo University researchers estimated that 166,000 fewer marriages occurred between 2020 and 2022 “due to Covid”, says Guy Gin.
• “Covid: the destruction of medical ethics and trust in the medical profession” – In TCW, Dr. Ahmad K. Malik, a consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon, presents the second part of his discussion of the damage done by the Government’s irrational Covid policies, this time focusing on the betrayal of informed consent.
• “‘It’s frustrating to look back’: nurse fired for refusing COVID-19 vaccine reflects as U.S. national emergency ends” – Biden marked an end to the Covid emergency this week, reports Fox News.
• “The four pillars of medical ethics were destroyed in the Covid response” – The four fundamental concepts of medical ethics are autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice, writes Dr. Clayton J. Baker in Brownstone.
• “In Somerset, noisy new Net Zero pylons are marching across the countryside – and the locals are not happy” – These are a new brand of electricity pylon – the first departure from the familiar design in close to a century. But discontent is growing, reports the Telegraph.
• “Commuter towns will ‘become car parks’ under ULEZ expansion plans, Mayor warned” – Tory MP Louise French said Home Counties residents will park outside of the M25 and travel into London by train to avoid the charge, reports the Telegraph.
• “Man arrested on suspicion of ULEZ camera damage as police crack down on vandals” – The 42 year-old was charged with criminal damage as Met Police reveal it has received 96 allegations of damage to cameras, according to the Telegraph.
• “National Grid’s John Pettigrew: network needs billions to hit Net Zero” – Pettigrew warned that it would cost “tens of billions of pounds” to rewire the grid and admitted that it would mean money would be added to household bills, reports the Times.
• “Just Stop Oil protesters team up with pro-Palestine demo in central London as they claim ‘Palestinians are among most vulnerable to effects of climate collapse’” – The eco-activists gathered in Parliament Square before moving on to Whitehall, as the Met Police said they were “engaging” with the procession, according to MailOnline.
• “Billy Bremner must fall? Statues given a costly slave audit” – Councils spent more than than £100,000 to conclude that many memorials had few or no links to slavery, according to the Times.
• “Cleopatra, black? Excuse my Greek but you’re talking out of your asp” – For those who don’t know, the fact that a black woman, Adele James, is playing Cleopatra has annoyed everyone from scholars of Egyptian antiquity to modern-day Greeks and Egyptians, says Tomiwa Owolade in the Times.
• “The row over the ‘terribly white’ Royal balcony exposes the hypocrisy of the woke Left” – The double standards are blatantly obvious – except, of course, to them, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “Critical race theory has a scholarship problem” – For many critical theorists, the true dividing line isn’t privileged people versus the oppressed; it’s people who agree with them versus those whose motives cannot be trusted, says Julian Adorney in Quillette.
• “British universities are beyond redemption” – There is a strong argument that a good number of our universities should be gently allowed to die, says Andrew Tettenborn, a Professor at Swansea Law School, in the Spectator.
• “Biden blasted for calling ‘white supremacy’ ‘most dangerous terrorist threat’ at college speech” – Critics accused Biden of using the opportunity to inflame racial tension in the United States, reports Fox News.
• “Starbucks employee sacked for ranting at woman she accused of ‘transphobia’ is an outspoken trans activist whose neighbours are terrified of ‘offending by mistakenly saying the wrong thing’” – Until today the identity of the coffee shop worker filmed berating a woman and throwing her out of a branch of the chain in Southampton in footage that went viral has remained secret, reports MailOnline.
• “The United Nations is wrong about Britain’s treatment of trans people” – A wise government would simply dismiss the UN expert’s statement as the opinion of someone who spent his time listening only to those who reinforced his worldview, writes Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
• “Outrage over WHO advice on sexuality for infants” – Guide argues that “sexuality education starts from birth”, according to the Telegraph.
• “Stonewall co-founder: I spoke at Cambridge, students tried to cancel me” – In the Times, Simon Fanshawe says parents and education leaders must stop indulging student intolerance.
• “Texas House votes to advance law banning child sex change – one Democrat breaks ranks to vote with GOP” – Texas moved one step closer to banning puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and sex-change surgeries in minors, according to the Post Millennial.
• “We chose freedom over ‘Faucism’” – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis cautions against allowing the history of lockdowns and medical mandates to be rewritten.

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