News Round-Up

• “The cardiovascular death toll from mRNA Covid jabs is hugely underreported, peer-reviewed studies suggest” – Alex Berenson writes that autopsies and medical reviews in Japan and Qatar suggest thousands of young adults died within weeks of their jabs. #DiedSuddenly indeed.
• “Care homes were paid extra to accept Covid patients” – Five sites in Birmingham were given a £1,000 one-off payment per patient to take hospital discharges, including those with the virus, reports the Telegraph.
• “Another nasty virus on its way? Matt Hancock wants to do it all again” – In the Telegraph, Isabel Oakeshott says the ex-Health Secretary is shutting his eyes and ears to the broken economy and shattered healthcare system lockdown left in its wake.
• “Hancock’s lockdown dogma must be tested” – The best evidence on how systems coped with the pandemic is the number of excess deaths and Sweden had far fewer than the U.K., says the Telegraph in a leading article.
• “Covid to blame for inflation – not Brexit, says Andrew Bailey” – The Bank of England Governor has rebuked Mark Carney’s claim that leaving the E.U. has caused record inflation, reports the Telegraph.
• “Serious adverse events from Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine are not ‘rare’” – Despite repeated claims that serious harms of Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine are ‘rare’, an investigation found no drug regulator could quantify the rate, says Maryanne Demasi.
• “Net Zero is slowly strangling this country” – Heat pumps, electric vehicles, smart meters, Ulez and now our cruises. There’s no step too far for the eco-zealots, says Robert Taylor in the Telegraph.
• “Tories can’t keep offering same tax and Net Zero policies as Labour, warns Lord Frost” – Former Brexit negotiator Lord Frost says the party will lose the next election unless Rishi adopts a more Conservative approach, according to the Telegraph.
• “Jonny Bairstow shows how to deal with Just Stop Oil” – Two people ran from the Grandstand at Lord’s and sprayed orange paint on the field before Jonny Bairstow and security intervened. Give the England wicketkeeper a knighthood, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
• “Essex schoolgirls sexually assaulted in gender-neutral toilets” – Just as the Education Department readies its transgender guidance, a teenage boy has been arrested over allegations of “serious sexual assault” in the gender-neutral lavatories of an Essex school, reports the Telegraph.
• “Daniel Korski withdraws from London mayoral race” – Daniel Korski has withdrawn from the Tory candidacy race for London Mayor amid a groping scandal, reports Guido Fawkes.
• “BBC presenter criticised for suggesting Daniel Korski’s groping accuser not telling truth” – Daisy Goodwin was “really surprised” to be questioned by the BBC’s Martha Kearney about how certain she was of the alleged Daniel Korski sexual assault case, says the Mail.
• “The Primodos Scandal – part four” – Despite the statistical correlation, the Government has dismissed the causal link of Primodus and allegations of birth defects. Carl Heneghan blasts the Expert Working Group review for its shortcomings and lack of credibility.
• “Barclays Bank pays out £20k for closing Christian account” – LGBT groups pressured Barclays to close a Christian ministry’s account over claims of conversion therapy, reports the Times. The bank has now settled to avert a High Court discrimination battle but without admitting fault or apologising.
• “Trevor Phillips: Meghan had to learn to be black when she became royal” – According to the Mail, Sir Trevor Phillips has said that the Duchess of Sussex “never regarded herself particularly as black” before joining the Royal Family.
• “Victoria Police looking into claims officers identifying as ‘gender neutral’ for extra $1,300 allowance” – Victoria Police is investigating reports some officers are self-identifying as ‘gender neutral’ in order to gain an extra $1,300 a year, according to news.com.au.
• “Proper stuff! Well done Jonny Bairstow for getting that bloke away!” – Nigel Farage on GB News reacts to England wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow carrying off a Just Stop Oil protester from the pitch at Lord’s during today’s Ashes test.

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