News Round-Up

• “Lockdown finished Boris – but for all the wrong reasons” – Who are the real clowns, when a man is forced out of politics because he was found in the vicinity of uneaten cake, asks Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
• “MPs on Commons privileges committee consider sanctions on Boris Johnson supporters” – Criticisms of the panel’s impartiality are being equated by some members with contempt of Parliament, reports the Telegraph.
• “Nigel Adams will stand down as MP with ‘immediate effect’” –The Boris Johnson ally, who missed out on his peerage, gives Sunak one in the eye and triggers a by-election in his Selby and Ainsty constituency, the Mail reports.
• “The outrageous ousting of Boris Johnson” – We have just witnessed a technocratic coup against the democratic wishes of the people, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Health officials ‘ignored evidence of non-Covid deaths’ during lockdown” – The Covid Inquiry is being urged urged by Consultant Pathologist Professor Sebastian Lucas to look into claims that senior doctors shut down concerns over collateral fatalities during the pandemic, the Telegraph reports.
• “‘The BBC has a reputation as a truth-teller – but in Covid it did what the Government wanted’” – Current and former staff members say debate around lockdown at the corporation was often stifled, according to the Telegraph.
• “Paediatrician’s Letter Questioning COVID-19 Vaccine for Children Was Sent to Disinformation Unit” – The Epoch Times reports on the targeting of HART’s Dr. Ros Jones by the Government Counter-Disinformation Unit.
• “Alternative approaches to combat respiratory viruses – freedom from the failing corporate-induced orthodoxy of the early 2020s” – Professor Jem Bendell offer thoughts on better ways to combat respiratory viruses in future than the nonsense of the Covid pandemic.
• “Twitter refused majority of removal requests from Covid spying unit” – Figures show that the social media firm refused nearly six out of 10 appeals from the U.K. Government CDU, the Telegraph reports.
• “Lockdown lessons” – People should have been allowed to manage their own risk, says Jamie Whyte in the Critic.
• “You are being conned: Data, studies and UN IPCC all reveal Canadian fires not due to ‘climate change’ – ‘There has been a significant and continuing decline in the number of fires’” – Contrary to the climate-alarmist media, wildfires, both globally and in Canada, have been declining significantly, says WUWT.
• “The summer doesn’t need a health warning” – These new ‘heat-health alerts’ show that climate alarmism is out of control, writes Tim Black in Spiked.
• “Wildfires: bad policy is ensuring a perpetual sense of burning crisis” – El Gato Malo on the real cause of the wildfires: poor forest management.
• “Is Justin Trudeau right to blame Canadian wildfires on climate change?” – The real world data don’t support the catastrophist narrative when it comes to what is to blame for the Canadian wildfires, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “Oxfam shop staff are stunned to be lectured by bosses on trans rights” – At a meeting of Oxfam area managers last month, a PowerPoint slide titled ‘Trans and LGBTQIA+ Inclusion Guide’ kicked off a lecture on transgender rights and pronouns, the Mail reports.
• “California Bill Would Punish Parents Who Don’t ‘Affirm’ Their Child’s Gender Identity” – A newly revised California bill would treat parents’ refusal to ‘affirm’ their child’s gender identity as a violation of health, safety and welfare in the context of custody disputes, reports the Free Beacon.
• “INGFASC” – Thorsteinn Siglaugsson calls out the clamping down on freedom of expression and protest in the West, highlighting in particular the plight of Julian Assange, due to be extradited to the U.S. “for publishing the truth about American war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq”.
• “The nasty side of Pride” – If Pride is about love, why does it feel so intimidating, asks Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
• “What are the U.K.’s main Right-wing blogs and how influential are they?” – Left Foot Forward includes the Daily Sceptic in its list of “the U.K.’s main Right-wing blogs”, which it says are “often propped up by millionaire donors’ intent on using their money to play politics”. If any millionaire donors have some spare change, do get in touch.

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