News Round-Up

• “John Redwood calls for ‘simple’ new law to override ECHR judges: ‘Got to solve problem now!’” – Sir John Redwood says the Tories should not be waiting for the next election to take action on the European Convention on Human Rights, reports the Express.
• “Scientists call for full retraction of Nature’s ‘Proximal Origin’ paper, as fraud accusations mount” – Prominent scientists are calling for a full retraction of a high-profile study published in the scientific journal Nature, which explored the origins of SARS-CoV-2, according to the American Institute for Economic Research.
• “Science fiction: the crisis in research” – Matt Ridley in the Spectator maps out the current crisis besetting science, including the nose dive the reputation of journals like Nature took during the Pandemic for publishing misinformation about the virus and then refusing to retract it.
• “Who will debunk the ‘fake news’ that trapped Britain in lockdown?” – Misinformation is at its most lethal when believed and acted upon by governments, writes Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph. When will BBC Verify investigate the fake news used to justify the lockdown policy?
• “NIH trials fail to test meaningful Long Covid treatments, after 2.5 years and $1 billion” – The National Institutes of Health says it has used up most of its $1.15 billion of Long Covid funding and no more money appears to be on the horizon, according to STAT.
• “NYU Population Health Professor suggests we keep panicking forever” – According to Anna Bershteyn, a Population Health Professor at New York University, we should keep panicking forever because it would be “really scary” if Covid “was as deadly as the MERS coronavirus”, says Eugyppius.
• “Four in 10 patients face potentially deadly wait for NHS cancer treatment” – Nearly 40,000 cancer patients have suffered potentially deadly delays to NHS treatment this year, reports the Times.
• “Global WHO digital health certification” – Countries around the world are sleepwalking into totalitarianism, warns Dr. John Campbell.
• “Immunologist, hounded for the tweets he ‘liked’, resigns” – The President of Thomas Jefferson University has resigned following pressure from student activists, according to Reclaim The Net. Will Elon Must fund a lawsuit?
• “Housebuilding or immigration?” – A scarcity of homes not only leaves renters and mortgage-holders with less disposable income, but contributes to a host of social ills, writes Noah Carl in Aporia.
• “More than a quarter of secondary pupils ‘persistently absent’” – New figures show that more than a quarter of secondary school pupils are regularly missing school, says the Times, with the numbers rising to almost half for those on free school meals.
• “Autistic girl arrested for saying officer ‘looked like lesbian nana’” – Police have been accused of heavy handedness after an autistic teenage girl was arrested by seven officers because she said a female officer looked like her ‘lesbian nana’, reports the Mail.
• “Joanna Cherry supports ousting ‘anti-free speech, anti-gay, totalitarian’ Greens” – SNP MP Joanna Cherry branded the Scottish Green Party “totalitarian” and suggested their alliance with the SNP should be “terminated”, says the Scottish Daily Express.
• “Magistrates are banned from using the terms ‘policeman’ and ‘chairman’” – The Magistrates Association has ordered its 28,000 members to avoid umbrella terms like “black, Asian or minority ethnic groups”, which can be “unintentionally divisive”, report the Mail.
• “Our academics are attacking the whole concept of knowledge” – The main objection to ‘decolonisation’ is not that it is false but that it is narrow-minded, obsessive and intolerant, writes Jonathan Sumption in the Spectator.
• “West London hospital under fire for describing women as ‘patients of childbearing potential’” – A London hospital has been accused of “erasing the concept of women”, reports MyLondon.
• “‘Woke’ Kellogg’s accused of ‘sexualising’ products” – Kellogg’s has been accused of sexualising breakfast with cereal boxes celebrating Pride Month, according to GB News.
• “The trans movement will only become more Orwellian” – War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. And now, it is feminists who apparently pose a threat to trans extremists, writes Julie Bindel in the Telegraph.
• “Why ‘affirmative action’ doesn’t work” – The Spectator’s Rod Liddle says all top-down attempts at Leftie social engineering end up causing more misery than the misery they’re designed to alleviate.
• “Our great art institutions have reduced British history to a scrapheap of shame” – New displays at Tate Britain and the National Portrait Gallery are pious distortions of history, says Calvin Po in the Spectator.
• “Judge orders Southwest Airlines lawyers to attend ‘religious liberty training’” – Three Southwest Airlines lawyers must attend “religious liberty training” for defying a judge in a religious discrimination case, according to the BBC.
• “Newsom funded Chinese Covid lab known to Biden’s FDA” – The discovery of a Chinese Covid biolab in California shocked the nation, but likely came as no surprise to the state’s Democrat Governor, Gavin Newsom. He helped fund it, says Mark Pellin in Headline USA.
• “Major censorship case on Government collusion with Big Tech heads to federal appeals court” – A major First Amendment case on Government collusion with Big Tech is scheduled to go before a federal appeals court for oral arguments, reports the Daily Caller.
• “Diversity group in Nigel Farage-Coutts bank row wants law change” – The Free Speech Union says B Lab U.K. is trying to pass a law to cement social justice ideology in all British companies, reports the Times.
• “Free Speech Union briefing: Woke, Ltd.” – The Free Speech Union’s Thomas Harris has compiled a briefing on the troubling ‘B Corp’ phenomenon and how it is encroaching on the free speech of employees, as well as customers and suppliers.
• “‘There is clearly questions for Coutts and B Corp to answer here’” – GB News’s Charlie Peters explains to Nigel Farage how companies can get a certification from B Corp and how little value it attaches to protecting the confidentiality of customers. Not surprisingly, Coutts and Co is a B Corp company.

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