News Round-Up

• “Boris Johnson has been handed a betrayal narrative he doesn’t deserve” – “Parliament has no interest in uncovering lockdown’s real sins,” says Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph, “so we’re stuck in a poisonous cycle of reprisals.”
• The Remain establishment has finally got its way” – David Frost offers the Telegraph his take on the Privileges Committee verdict. “I find the Committee’s report vindictive and the proposal to withdraw Boris’s parliamentary pass unnecessary and childish.”
• “Police to look into Covid-era ‘drinks event’ attended by partygate inquiry MP” – The Metropolitan Police are now investigating Sir Bernard Jenkin’s lockdown drinks party, the Telegraph reports.
• “Brave Not-So-New World” – HART was pleased to see the Counter-Disinformation Unit make the mainstream news, but they can’t help but point out that it’s all been in the public domain for quite some time.
• “Government’s secret censorship unit and the truth about the Lockdown Files” – Tony Diver, a part of the team which broke the Telegraph story on the Counter-Disinformation Unit, joins Winston Marshall on his Spectator podcast to explain how and why the Government colluded with social media to suppress lockdown dissent.
• “Introducing the Lockdown Files, a new Telegraph podcast” –The Telegraph launches a new podcast – the Lockdown Files – to discuss the revelations that emerged from its investigation into Matt Hancock’s WhatsApps.
• “WHO decides? The line between good and evil” – HART takes the WHO to task over its incessant virtue signalling.
• “It really was just the flu, bro” – The Occam’s razor explanation for Covid hysteria, courtesy of Jordan Schachtel.
• “Petition: Protect the NHS and All Healthcare: Require masks in healthcare” – A petition urging the Government to require mask wearing in all hospitals, clinics and GP practices in perpetuity. Not one to sign! Who are these people?
• “Adventures in chart-crime: making climate data look scary” – “If a picture is worth 1000 words,” says El Gato Malo, “imagine how many lies it can tell.”
• “The weather isn’t ‘climate change’” – A plea, from Lionel Shriver in the Spectator for TV presenters and politicians to stop blaming climate change for every bit of bad weather.
• “Pioneering electric plane shelved as batteries only last a few hundred flights” – Italy’s Tecnam is stopping work on developing the P-volt electric aircraft, the Telegraph says, because it is not commercially viable with today’s battery technology.
• “Gender-affirming hormones in children and adolescents” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson take a bow as, four years after they said that gender affirming hormones should not be prescribed to under-18s, NHS England finally comes to the same conclusion.
• “Stop the U.K. Government’s attack on our free speech” – A call for donations from Big Brother Watch as it gears up for legal action against the Counter-Disinformation Unit.
• “Brazen migrant smugglers offer services through TikTok, with videos promoting $13 billion industry” – Migrant smugglers on the U.S southern border are advertising their services with high-quality videos on YouTube and TikTok, the New York Post reports.
• “Nottingham: Mental health strikes again” – Jack Watson, writing for the New Conservative, finds it striking that there is an “extraordinary level of incuriosity” in the media as to the motives of the assailant responsible for the murders in Nottingham.
• “Why I hate the new Pride flag” – Chadwick More in the Spectator, despairing at the evolution of the LGBTQ+ Pride flag which has become, he says, “a stitched-together crime against nature”.
• “Britain has a baby shortage – and it could kill off the state pension” – A warning in the Telegraph that a falling fertility rate and ageing population will be a toxic combination for Britain’s retirees.
• “The argument for killing elephants in trophy hunts” – The Mail’s Sue Reid meets Africans who oppose the U.K.’s proposed ban on trophy hunting, saying “the ‘ignorant’ West is meddling  – colonial-style – in affairs it knows nothing about.”
•  “Black marxist scholar who supports reparations finds out she descends from slave owner” – Professor Angela Davis, a communist and advocate of reparations, was shocked to discover that she is descendent of a slave owner, according to the College Fix.
• “Elizabeth Gilbert is pulling a novel set in Russia from publication. That’s unsettling” – Francine Prose explains in the Guardian why she regrets author Elizabeth’s Gilbert’s decision to withhold The Snow Forest after facing a backlash over its setting in 1930s Siberia.
• “The rise of the self-censoring liberal” – “When you look at it closely, Gilbert’s decision makes little real sense,” writes Laura Dodsworth in Spiked. “She is effectively trying to show solidarity with Ukrainians fighting to preserve their freedom by cancelling her own freedom.”
• “Army boss considering scrapping ‘masculine’ titles like Guardsman to avoid excluding women” – Nick Dixon, Leo Kearse and Cressida Wetton have a chuckle at the news that the army is considering going woke.

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