News Round-Up

• “Farewell questions for Rochelle Walensky” – Given what we now know about the failure of Covid vaccines to provide sterilising immunity, stop infection or stop spread, El Gato Malo has some questions for the outgoing CDC boss in Brownstone.
• “After Covid: 12 challenges for a shattered world” – In Brownstone, Jeffrey A. Tucker outlines 12 challenges that must be addressed to progress in a post-Covid world.
• “I could have halted lockdown but for Hancock’s lies” – In TCW, Simon Dolan reflects on the legal action he took against Government in 2020 in a failed effort to stop lockdowns.
• “New Covid booster ‘challenge’ raised as obese population will need jab ‘more frequently’” – Not content to let Covid fade away, this advice comes from experts from the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh, who found that the protection given by Covid jabs wanes faster with a higher body mass index (BMI), according to the Express.
• “Scots back nuclear power to help meet Net Zero targets” – According to a poll, most people living in Scotland favour introducing new nuclear power to help in the nation’s journey to Net Zero, reports the Times.
• “Watch: Extinction Rebellion interrupt Suella Braverman during speech” – A protester posing as a conference delegate stood up and started shouting over Braverman, the Home Secretary, seconds into her remarks, reports the Telegraph.
• “Nationwide offers £15,000 interest-free loans – to a select few green-minded borrowers” – Offer comes amid growing pressure on Government and businesses to help tackle emissions, according to the Telegraph.
• “Energy bills will fall in six weeks, Shapps predicts” – The Energy Secretary acknowledged that while wholesale prices were returning to ‘normal’ levels, households had yet to see that reflected in their bills, according to the Times.
• “Uber wants all cabs electric in two years” – Uber plans to make London its first all-electric city by the end of 2025, according to the Times.
• “Megaphone-wielding Just Stop Oil zealot travelled hundreds of miles from Scotland to stage slow-march in London” – Ruth Lanser was one of 25 fanatics causing mayhem in the capital and has now come under fire after journeying some 400 miles to join two slow marches, reports MailOnline.
• “Now Keir Starmer warns Londoners they risk lung cancer unless they accept Sadiq Khan’s hated ULEZ expansion” – The Labour leader gave his full backing to London mayor Sadiq Khan’s controversial plan to widen ULEZ to the whole of the capital from late August, reports MailOnline.
• “Let’s stop pretending the culture wars aren’t real” – Many of us live in material and financial fear of what might happen if we make public what we think, writes Patrick West in the Spectator.
• “DeSantis signs bill to defund DEI programmes at Florida public colleges” – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed legislation to defund diversity, equity and inclusion programmes at all state universities, calling them a “distraction from the core mission”, according to CNN.
• “Moira Deeming and the death of Australian liberalism” – Now even the centre-Right Liberal Party is in thrall to extremist gender ideology, says Nick Cater in Spiked.
• “Dave Chappelle torches San Francisco while performing there” – Comedian Dave Chappelle roasted San Francisco over the city’s rapid decline caused by electing woke local officials, reports the Daily Wire.
• “Black Lives Matter activist is taken to court by British Film Institute over ‘missing £216,000 sponsorship money’” – Alisha Hall, 41, and her Hall Media Group Limited are subject of a winding-up petition launched by the BFI over the large sum it says is missing, reports MailOnline.
• “Suella Braverman says white people should not feel ‘collective guilt’ over slavery as Home Secretary uses speech to challenge Rishi Sunak on immigration” – Braverman lashed out at people today being “blamed for things that happened before they were born”, according to MailOnline.
• “I thought I was a liberal mother, then my daughter came out as trans” – In the Telegraph, one mother describes how her young daughter’s gender decisions are a wake-up call for families.
• “Woke children’s TV show sparks outrage as it introduces new non-binary character” – A children’s TV show has sparked outrage after it introduced a new non-binary character, according to GB News.
• “DeSantis rips student attacks on Riley Gaines: ‘They should be expelled’” – Gov. Ron DeSantis blasted the students at San Francisco State University and Stanford Law School who shouted down and attacked speakers on their campus, reports the Washington Examiner.
• “University of Melbourne lecturer targeted by trans activists after attending Let Women Speak rally” – Feminist Professor Holly Lawford-Smith has spoken out about a months-long campaign by trans rights activists encouraging students to boycott her classes, reports Sky New Australia.
• “Why are we in Ukraine?” – Benjamin Schwarz and Christopher Layne discuss the dangers of American hubris in Harper’s Magazine.
• “Bud, hold my beer” – A Miller Lite advert that aired in March has gone viral in the wake of the backlash against competitor Bud Light after it teamed up with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney. The Miller Lite commercial claims that “from Mesopotamia to the middle ages to colonial America, women were the ones doing the brewing” and admonishes the modern beer industry for featuring bikini-clad women in adverts.

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