News Round-Up

• “The false lesson of lockdown scepticism” – Increasing corporate power will end in disaster, according to Thomas Fazi and Toby Green in UnHerd.
• “Bad news: TV portrays Covid vaccine victims as Covid deaths” – News Watch 9 on NHK, the Japanese equivalent to the BBC, used “creatively deceptive editing”, says Guy Gin.
• “Wuhan lab leak ‘happened about the same time as Covid emerged’” – U.S. analysis says Chinese city’s Institute of Virology was an ‘accident waiting to happen’, according to the Telegraph.
• “New York nursing home Covid victim’s daughter slams Andrew Cuomo in House hearing” – The daughter of an elderly woman who died of COVID-19 in a New York nursing home ripped disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo for covering up his decision to move infected patients into senior care facilities at the start of the pandemic, reports the New York Post.
• “Will Rishi Sunak admit the truth about Net Zero?” – Rishi Sunak’s answers at PMQs made more sense than the cries of his detractors and offered a hint of something more rational than we have now, says George Trefgarne in the Spectator.
• “I’m running for London Mayor to ditch Khan and scrap his driver tax” –  CEBR estimate Khan’s August ULEZ expansion will have an an additional revenue impact of £369 million, says Howard Cox in the Express.
• “Just Stop Oil demo descends into chaos as police arrest protesters on Parliament Square” – The Met Police said eight arrests had been made following the march by 28 protesters on Parliament Square, reports the Express.
• “Oxford scholars back Kathleen Stock’s right to speak” – Student union plans protest at gender-critical Professor’s appearance at debating society, reports the Times.
• “When political dogma replaces medical truth” – The peer-review process is consistently failing to stop bad scholarship on gender medicine, writes Ian Kingsbury in City Journal.
• “How therapists became social justice warrior” – New therapists describe a profession that teaches the ascribing of oppressor or victim categories to patients, based on their innate characteristics, instead of seeing them as individuals, says Lisa Selin Davis in the Free Press.
• “Twitter unfairly maligned for turkey censorship” – Twitter more transparent than Google or Facebook and even Elon Musk’s harshest critics say Twitter had little choice, according to Michael Shellenberger.
• “The stomach-drop moment I realised there was something terribly wrong at the Tavistock gender clinic” – Nurse reveals why she blew the whistle on “experimental” treatment on children as young as ten, reports MailOnline.
• “Rishi Sunak won’t ban China’s Confucius Institutes despite promising to scrap them” – The Prime Minister said during last year’s leadership campaign that he would shut down the 30 Chinese culture institutes in the U.K., reports the Telegraph.
• “I have been censored for warning about censorship” – If you want to discover the limits of free speech nowadays, talk about sex and gender, says Joanna Williams in Spiked.
• “Viewpoint Diversity Index shows most large companies threaten the fundamental freedoms of every American” – The second annual Viewpoint Diversity Score Business Index showed that prominent companies lack commitments to guarantee the First Amendment liberties of their customers and employees, writes Ben Zeisloft in the Daily Wire.
• “Trans activists now have a heckler’s veto on campus” – Universities are kowtowing to an intolerant fringe, according to Raquel Rosario Sanchez in Spiked.
• “DeSantis cancels ‘pronoun Olympics’ for students, teachers and says it’s ‘not happening’ in Florida” – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said students and teachers in Sunshine State schools will “never be forced to declare pronouns” while signing a measure to protect children and parental rights, reports Fox News.
• “Kamala Harris grilled after claiming conservatives banning ‘women’s history’ classes” – Critics ripped the U.S. Vice President for claiming conservatives’ push to ban gender ideology classes from public education means they’re trying to ban “women’s history”, reports Fox News.
• “Hey teachers, leave those kids alone” – “Thankfully I am in year nine now and I feel I dodged a bullet by not having to listen to any of this malarkey,” says 14 year-old Jack Watson in Country Squire Magazine. “But I feel for the younger students.”
• “Sex-change procedures at Texas Children’s Hospital” – Doctors said that they would stop such medical interventions. Whistleblower documents prove that they haven’t, says Christopher Rufo in City Journal.
• “Have you looked inside any of these books?” – Page through a few of the titles removed from Florida schools – some outright pornographic – and ask yourself if kids should be reading them, says Dave Seminara in City Journal.
• “Is Sadiq Khan right about the U.K.’s LGBT rights regression?” – Khan’s language was emotive, but as a trans person I find his depiction of LGBT rights – at least as far as the UK is concerned – hard to recognise, writes Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
• “Bud Light sales plummet for fifth straight week as customers react against Mulvaney partnership” – Retail data from Bump Williams Consulting and NielsenIQ indicate that sales for the brew declined 23.6% in the week ending May 6th relative to the same period last year, according to the Daily Wire.
• “The dangerous nonsense of white guilt” – Woke identity politics risks fuelling white identity politics, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
• “Offer me money. Offer me power. I don’t care” – Elon Musk went viral with a bold statement on free speech during an interview on CNBC.

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