News Round-Up

• “France is in danger of descending into anarchy” – France endured its worst night of rioting yet as violence continued across the country following the shooting by police of a Paris teenager, writes Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
• “The world is watching in disbelief as France tears itself apart” – Macron is losing control of France, says Anne Elisabeth-Moutet in the Telegraph.
• “What are the France riots about? Police shooting exposes a fractured nation” – The killing of a young driver by police has sparked the country’s worst unrest in decades, reports the Times.
• “Is liberal society making us ill?” – Gurwinder Bhogal in UnHerd looks at the perplexing data on Long Covid.
• “Money’s the motive for calling ME a myth” – Sophie Palmer in TCW argues that ME has a biological cause but money is the reason the evidence is suppressed.
• “Little by little, our elected politicians are handing over control to faceless bureaucracies” – Parliament should take care to guard its supremacy and not accelerate the shift in power to bureaucrats, says Dan Hannan in the Telegraph.
• “New York quietly shuts down its $250 million Covid vaccine passport mobile app” – The app was a staple of New York City’s movement pass system but now it’s gone, says Jordan Schachtel.
• “The Covid inquiry is creating a lockdown doctrine” – Shutting down harder and faster next time is the wrong idea, says Kevin Bardosh in UnHerd.
• “Contaminated vaccines – how much longer can the ‘safe and effective’ narrative survive?” – Neville Hodgkinson in TCW takes a look at recent disturbing findings on vaccine contamination.
• “Has the Bank of England’s Net Zero obsession fuelled inflation?” – When it comes to climate change and Net Zero, the Bank has shown that poor judgement is certainly not exclusive to elected officials, says Rupert Darwall in the Spectator.
• “The King of Climate Change” – Prince Charles’ predictions fail again, so he issues a new one, writes the Naked Emperor.
• “Backlash over green levy ‘by stealth’ sparks concerns for struggling families, charities, and energy firms” – Criticism mounts as Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt face a backlash over the reintroduction of green levies on consumer bills this weekend, reports the Telegraph.
• “Watch: Academic who wrote ‘impartial’ LTN reviews tears down protesters’ petition” – Dr. Anna Goodman was caught on CCTV removing residents’ petition against low-traffic neighbourhoods she has analysed in the past as a supposedly ‘impartial’ researcher for the Government, the Telegraph reports.
• “The electric car ‘revolution’ is a disaster before it’s begun” – Politicians are forcing electric cars on a public that doesn’t want them, says Ben Marlow in the Telegraph.
• “The Left now wants the utter abolition of Britain as we know it” – Time and time again, this country’s most innocent pleasures are made grist for the modern grievance mill, and Douglas Murray in the Telegraph has had more than enough.
• “Affirmative Action betrayed black America. It was not true equality” – Selection based on skin tone is infantilising and unfair, creating a second-tier citizenship of sorts, says Inaya Folarin Iman in the Telegraph.
• “Affirmative action was hurting black students” – Heather Mac Donald in the Spectator says black people should welcome the end of preferential treatment – though voices concern about how big the loophole the Court has left open may be.
• “Affirmative Action Entrenches Division and Bigotry” – The insidious consequence of affirmative action is the fact it’s so often counterproductive, writes Ramesh Thakur for Brownstone.
• “University demands professor learn free speech after she chided student for ‘biological women’ phrase: Report” – The University of Cincinnati reprimanded a professor and demanded she take free speech training after penalising a student for using the term ‘biological women’, reports Fox News.
• “The Clarkson ruling puts Ipso in violation of its own charter” – Fraser Nelson in the Spectator says the condemnation of ‘sexism’ in a newspaper column at the behest of third parties takes us into disturbing new territory.
• “Ireland’s deeply sinister hate crime bill” – Under the draconian Bill, soon to become an Act, it will become a crime to say anything, in person or online, which anybody from a protected category finds “hateful or offensive”, says Ian O’Doherty in the Spectator.
• “Nigel Farage and the corporate war on dissent” – If we allow banks to unperson people, we open the door to tyranny, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
• “CISA Was Behind the Attempt to Control Your Thoughts, Speech, and Life” – CISA is representative of a cabal of censorial, unaccountable officials engaged in public-private partnerships designed to keep us in the dark, says the Brownstone Institute.

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