News Round-Up

• “Privileges Committee inquisitor Bernard Jenkin attended drinks party during Lockdown” – A scoop from Guido Fawkes accusing Sir Bernard Jenkin MP – a member of the Privileges Committee that is punishing Boris for misleading parliament about attending parties during lockdown – of attending a party during lockdown. Apparently, there was even a birthday cake!  
• “Boris writes to Harriet Harman about Bernard Jenkin” – Read Boris’s letter to Harriet Harman, again on Guido Fawkes, demanding to know if any more of the inquisitors on the Privileges Committee broke the rules.
• “The remoaner Covid inquiry” – “Blaming Brexit for Covid deaths is shameless and nonsensical,” says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
• “’It would be child abuse’ to not mask two-year-old children” – New York Democrat Jerry Nadler tells Congress that it is “child abuse” for parents not to mask-up their two year-olds. “The only way to protect them against Covid was to have them wear masks.”
• “Paying the price for campus closures” – Writing for the Brownstone Institute, Rob Jenkins’ laments the lengthy closures of U.S. college campuses during the pandemic, given that they are now suffering from shrinking budgets and falling enrolment numbers.  
• “German Health Minister announces new initiative to combat heat wave deaths by calling old people, reminding them to drink water” – Eugyppius rolls his eyes at the latest announcements from German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach.
• “A timely message to legislators regarding WHO and health emergencies” –Writing in PANDA Uncut,  Dr. David Bell sounds a warning about the dangers of ceding power to the WHO.
• “Deadly diseases are coming to Britain – because of climate change” – Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, Zika virus and other mosquito- and tick-borne diseases are heading for Britain thanks to climate change, scientists told MPs on the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee.
• “It is working-class people who are bearing the brunt of Just Stop Oil’s protests” –  “Just Stop Oil protests essentially consist of middle-class people sitting smugly on their backsides, while working-class people wonder how they’re supposed to make a living,” writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph. “It’s like lockdown all over again.”
• “Scotland’s Net Zero nightmare is coming to England” – “By the time we pay the price for this madness, this generation of political leaders will have retired and there will be no accountability,” writes the Telegraph’s Tom Harris.
• “Save the planet… sacrifice a child?!” – “One of the hallmarks of the modern environmentalist movement,” notes Augusto Zimmermann in Spectator Australia, “is its apparent indifference towards human life.”
• “It may be hot, but most British homes don’t need aircon. Switch it off” – Air conditioning is an “extravagance”, says Hannah Fearn in the Guardian. “If you’re cranking it up during the short British summer, you’re part of the problem.”
• “Petition: Repeal the Climate Change Act 2008” – Check out the parliamentary petition calling on the Government to reppeal the Climate Change Act – which requires a 100% reduction of greenhouse gas emission from 1990 levels by 2050 – and all related regulations.
• “21st century snake oil” – Gary Christian alerts readers of Spectator Australia to the hazards of cannabis. 
• “State ‘modernises’ birth certificates” – Queensland Australia has passed new laws allowing people to register a change of sex without having to go through reassignment surgery, news.com reports.
• “BBC’s disinformation queen shoots herself in both feet” – In TCW Defending Freedom, Niall McCrae accuses Marianna Spring of shooting herself in the foot with her attempted takedown of the independent free sheet, the Light.
• “Bud Light tanks, gets replaced by Modelo as America’s top-selling beer” – Bud Light’s reign as the number-one beer seller in the United States has come to an end, reports the Post Millennial. The crown now passes to Modelo.
• “How tobacco companies are crushing ESG ratings” – The Free Beacon explains how Big Tobacco companies such as Philip Morris and Altria somehow persuaded ESG-conscious financiers that cigarettes were a more ‘ethical’ investment than electric cars.
• “See it. Say it. Sod off!” – Charlotte Gill writes in the Critic to bemoan the proliferation of “nanny-state posters” and “paternalistic signs” which desensitise the public to authoritarianism.
• “Top journalist says ‘draconian’ hate-speech bill can criminalise anyone” – Helen Joyce has said that the Hate Speech bill currently before the Seanad is a “dangerous and draconian” piece of legislation under which “anyone could be found guilty”, reports Gript, because “hate is criminalised without being defined”.
• “North Korea: Residents tell BBC of neighbours starving to death” – The Government of North Korea sealed off the country’s borders in 2020 because of the pandemic and haven’t been unsealed since. That means food can’t get in and now residents have told the BBC that they are afraid they will starve to death.
• “Paid to do nothing? What could possibly go wrong?” – Roger Watson explains why Universal Basic Income is an “absurd” idea in TCW Defending Freedom. “This is not the route to prosperity and better mental health; it is the route to poverty and loss of self-esteem.”
• “Britain poised to unite the Right?” – Frank Haviland in the European Conservative on the prospect of Boris joining forces with Nigel Farage to lead a populist insurgency on the centre right.
• “Rock bottom, or resurfacing?” – Former Brexit negotiator Lord David Frost mounts a passionate defence of Brexit in the American Conservative. Brexit, he writes “is a necessary condition for Britain recovering its confidence on the world stage”.
• “It’s ridiculous to think AI threatens humanity, says pioneer” – The Times reports that Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief artificial intelligence scientist, has defended AI from his peers who think it poses a threat to civilisation, accusing them of favouring regulation to stymie their potential competitors.
• “Dominic Frisby pays a loving tribute to Nicola Sturgeon at Comedy Unleashed” – The latest verse of Dominic Frisby Maybe song has landed.
• “This little scene kind of encapsulates the cultural divide in Britain today” – A 25-second illustration of Britain’s ever-widening cultural divide.

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