News Round-Up

• “We still need a reckoning with lockdown” – Partygate is a distraction from the cruelty of the rules themselves, says Laura Dodsworth in Spiked.
• “Every Story Matters – U.K. COVID-19 Inquiry” – The inquiry is inviting everyone to “share your experience of the pandemic” to “help us understand the full picture of its impact across the U.K.”, and we thought Daily Sceptic readers may wish to join in.
• “Dr. Scott Atlas: Inside Trump’s Covid Task Force” – Health policy expert and former and White House Coronavirus Task Force Adviser Scott Atlas tells the HighWire about his 2020 battle within the Trump Administration’s COVID-19 Task Force.
• “Harvard Ethics Expert Caught Committing Academic Fraud” – Igor Chudov reports on the case of the star Harvard ‘honesty’ researcher who faked her own research findings.
• “Q & A with ‘Transcriber B’” – Bill Rice, Jr. says that if future historians get Covid history right, it might be because of the tireless work of one unsung Internet hero.
• “NHS’s ‘healthy weight’ calculator made people fatter” – The Telegraph reports that errors in the online service meant overweight people were told to eat more calories per day than they should have.
• “Rishi Sunak scraps Net Zero pledge to legally ban coal” – The Government says the legislation is “not necessary” because the plants are closing anyway, according to the Telegraph.
• “BBC accused of bowing to pressure from Sadiq Khan over Ulez reporting” – According to a leaked message, an editor at the BBC said that any stories on the controversial scheme had to be escalated to senior levels for sign-off because of an “outstanding complaint” from Mr. Khan, the Telegraph reports.
• “The EU’s energy problems are about to get a lot worse” – Ralph Schoellhammer in UnHerd says the bloc’s environmental agenda won’t survive contact with reality.
• “School hits children with ‘political propaganda’ on gender self-ID” – Pupils at a secondary school on Isle of Man were told that allowing people simply to declare whether they are male or female would be a “major step forward”, the Telegraph reports.
• “Teenagers tell Education Secretary they are ‘too frightened’ to say there are only two genders” – In an open letter to Gillian Keegan, the pupils warn of “ostracisation and bullying” at school if they challenge “dogma, according to the Telegraph.
• “Lee Anderson: Everything that is good in the world started in Britain” – The Tory MP launched his new GB News show saying he is “proud to be a British person, even prouder to be an Englishman”, the Telegraph reports.
• “The question isn’t whether Conservatives should fight culture wars or not. It’s how” – Paul Goodman in ConservativeHome argues that, above all, Conservatives “shouldn’t become preoccupied with woke to the exclusion of everything else”.
• “Duchess of Sussex’s popularity plummets to all-time low” – Public opinion of Prince Harry and Meghan falls in the wake of the couple’s New York car chase, according to a YouGov poll, reports the Telegraph.
• “The French Connection and the trouble with streaming censorship” – Stephen Daisley in the Spectator on the growing problem of streaming censorship and the importance of keeping hard copies of classic films and TV shows to ensure you have the real thing.
• “Plan to let children change gender at school a ‘political disaster’” – There’s a Tory backlash as the Education Secretary says the guidance will recommend pupils be able to ‘socially transition’ to a pronoun of their choice, according to the Telegraph.
• “Ernest Hemingway masterpiece given a trigger warning by publisher” – Ernest Hemingway’s work has been given a trigger warning by publishers over concerns about his “language” and “attitudes”, the Telegraph reveals.
• “No child should be forced to affirm a classmate’s identity as a cat” – We must inject some common sense back into schools and society more generally, says Education Secretary Gillian Keegan, writing in the Telegraph.
• “I was sacked for writing about trans censorship” – The Australian media has been occupied by activists, says Julie Szego in UnHerd.
• “St Paul’s Cathedral calls Winston Churchill’s ‘white supremacist’” – The Mail on Sunday reports that the insulting description of Sir Winston Churchill appeared on St. Paul’s website for more than a year before being removed this week following complaints.

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