News Round-Up

• “Next pandemic could be even deadlier than Covid, Government adviser warns” – Professor Mark Woolhouse tells the Covid Inquiry that the outbreak was nowhere near as bad as it could have been, says the Mail.
• “How Hancock and the ‘fiercely independent’ MHRA recklessly rolled out a vaccine tested on only 500 people” – The public were told the COVID-19 vaccine had been tested on tens of thousands of people but only 500 doses were tested on volunteers, says Paula Jardine inTCW.
• “Mark Drakeford blames Brexit and lack of funding for Covid failures” – The Welsh First Minister tells the Covid Inquiry that Westminster did not help him fund eight new posts he set up to tackle the pandemic, reports the Telegraph.
• “Let patients pay to skip NHS queue, says Tony Blair” – Ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair says that Brits should have the option of receiving private treatment, funded by both the NHS and themselves, in order to avoid long waits, reports the Mail.
• “Censored by the academic preprint servers” – Where are the Numbers? sounds the alarm on health science preprint servers, medRxiv and arXiv, systematically rejecting academic papers that do not fit the Covid narrative.
• “Bernard Jenkin’s wife’s lockdown birthday party to be investigated by police” – Scotland Yard is opening an investigation into allegations that Covid regulations were breached at a gathering attended by Sir Bernard Jenkin in December 2020, says the Telegraph.
• “Will the upcoming presidential race serve as a litmus test for Covid politics?” – Ramesh Thakur discusses the peculiar political relationship between Covid and U.S. politics on Spectator TV Australia.
• “Ben Wallace’s hopes of being NATO chief ended by row over Ukraine” – Joe Biden dashed Defence Secretary Ben Wallace’s dream of becoming NATO chief after the U.K. trained F-16 pilots without U.S. approval, says the Telegraph.
• “Ursula von der Leyen is failing upwards – again” – According to Fraser Myers at Spiked, Ursula von der Leyen, who was a terrible EU President, is now being lined up for a plum role at NATO.
• “Is French police brutality a myth?” – Commentators claim French police are uniquely brutal, but according to Noah Carl in UnHerd, data show that France has the second lowest rate of fatal shootings among Western countries.
• “Just Stop Oil protesters strike at Wimbledon” – Wimbledon became the latest high-profile sporting event to be disrupted by eco-zealots when JSO protestors invaded Court 18, reports the Mail.
• “Furious motorists blast Just Stop Oil as it stages another slow march” – The JSO eco-mob have launched their 11th week of road protests, says the Mail.
• “Labour war over Ulez as Boris seat candidate calls for expansion delay” – Danny Beales, Labour’s candidate in Boris’s old seat, has attacked Sadiq Khan’s decision to expand Ulez to outer boroughs, saying it would hammer families, reports the Mail.
• “Good riddance to the Tory greens” – £12 billion on climate aid is money the U.K. can ill-afford to spend. If that upsets the Conservative party’s green wing, so much the better, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “Has the mainstream press lost all desire to investigate climate alarmist claims?” – A serious debate is needed on Net Zero and how best to tackle climate change. Unfortunately, the mainstream media have no interest in doing so, says Alex Starling in Reaction.
• “Climate change by flawed numbers” – Norman Fenton exposes the ‘at least 95% certainty of man-made warming’ scam.
• “Don’t be afraid of AI, says Government’s new Chief Scientific Advisor” – Professor Dame Angela McLean, the Government’s new Chief Scientific Advisor, says she is an “AI optimist”, despite warnings the new technology could destroy humanity, reports the Mail.
• “AI chatbot encouraged man to kill Queen in Star Wars-inspired plot” – A crossbow-wielding loner was ‘encouraged’ by an AI chatbot to carry out a ‘Star Wars-inspired’ assassination of the Queen, says the Mail.
• “Trans paedophile avoids jail because of delay over which prison she would go to” – Tanya Howes, a convicted transgender paedophile, has escaped prison due to delays and debate over whether he should go to a male or female prison, reports the Telegraph.
• “TfL bosses ban advert for new West End play because it features cake” – Transport for London has banned a poster for the Broadway show Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding, which features a Victoria sponge wedding cake, saying it promotes ‘consumption of fat, salt and sugar’, reports the Mail.
• “Relax: The children will save us from ourselves” – In a world where teachers have lost the plot, we can rely on the naïve bigotry of children and their old-fashioned notions that there are only two genders, says Frank Haviland in the New Conservative.
• “Is Pearl Davis the female Andrew Tate?” – Meet Pearl Davis, a.k.a. JustPearlyThings, the anti-feminist firebrand who is building a massive online following with controversial opinions. But, asks UnHerd, is she sincere?
• Biden’s ‘Orwellian’ social media crackdown” – According to a U.S. District Court Judge, Biden officials likely conspired with social media to suppress free speech. He can no longer be trusted to protect the First Amendment, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “The unravelling of the censorship hegemon” – A landmark injunction against U.S. Government officials marks a turning point in the battle for free speech, says the Brownstone Institute.
• “Should we apologise for the past?” – Douglas Murray, on TalkTV’s Piers Morgan Uncensored, argues that it is time to move on from events that occurred centuries ago and to stop demanding reparations for slavery.

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