News Round-Up

• “U.K. health chiefs warn new Covid variant may be rapidly spreading” – The new Covid variant ‘Pirola’ may already be spreading across the world, according to a panel of Government ‘experts’ including ‘Professor Lockdown’ Neil Ferguson, according to the Mail. Ooh, mother!
• “Enough of the Covid fear-mongering” – No, we don’t need mask mandates to cope with every new variant, says David Livermore in Spiked.
• “Wearing masks in hospitals may have had little impact on COVID-19 transmission during Omicron wave” – According to new research, mask requirements in a London hospital during the first 10 months of omicron made no discernible difference to reducing hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 infections, reports Medical Xpress.
• “The lab leak illusion” – The laboratory accident hypothesis of COVID-19’s origins is a bust, says Jamie Palmer in Quillette, but the popular consensus is unwilling to accept it.
• “Watch: Was the New York spring 2020 mass-casualty event evidence that a global viral pandemic occurred?” – In a PANDA Open Science Session, Dr. Jessica Hockett contends that New York City’s spring 2020 mass-casualty event is a global and domestic outlier that warrants closer scrutiny.
• “YouTube prepares for new Covid lockdowns with gaslighting ‘misinformation’ rules” – If you thought that YouTube had relaxed its medical ‘misinformation’ rules around Covid, then you’re in for a nasty surprise, says Phillip James in Vision News.
• “When science becomes a threat to population health” – The sway exerted by pharmaceutical companies’ financial interests across medical academia and public policy presents a jeopardy to the credibility of healthcare and societal welfare, argues Kara Thomas in Spectator Australia.
• “How I exposed the biggest pharma scandal of our lifetime” – In an article for the Free Press, Barry Meier, author of the book that inspired the Netflix hit Painkiller delves into how Purdue Pharma’s greed and deceit contributed to the nationwide opioid epidemic.
• “Labour majority would be a ‘miracle’, says David Blunkett” – Former Labour Home Secretary David Blanket says the General Election is “by no means in the bag”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Is the Home Office working against the Tories?” – It has long been suggested by senior politicians from both main parties that civil servants in the Home Office pick and choose which Government policies to implement and which to ignore or undermine, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
• “Woke defunding of right-of-centre media is organised to hoodwink advertisers” – Some 46 Conservative parliamentarians have called on the Prime Minister to intervene against the ongoing advertiser ‘boycott’ of media outlets, says Guido Fawkes.
• “Too many institutions put their reputations ahead of the public” – In the NHS and elsewhere, examples of leaders closing ranks and not fixing problems are sadly familiar, says Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
• “The West is losing the plot” – From Covid to Ukraine, a Western narrative crisis festers, according to Philip Pilkington in UnHerd.
• “Tory council leader in Hertfordshire refuses to erect Ulez signs” – Hertfordshire County Council’s Richard Roberts said the local authority will not put up infrastructure to mark Ulez, reports the Mail.
• “A proper democratic debate on Net Zero is long overdue” – In the 2019 election, all four major party manifestos presented Net Zero as a fait accompli: none made clear the upheaval it demands, the opportunity costs involved or the dramatic impact on our quality of life, writes Sarah Ingham in Conservative Home.
• “Why won’t the Tories put the brakes on Ulez?” – It’s still not too late to stop this Ulez madness, says Richard Littlejohn in the Mail.
• “The pain of Net Zero is coming sooner than you think” – The U.K.’s proposed bans on boilers and petrol cars will be economically devastating, warns James Woudhuysen in Spiked.
• “Most support Net Zero, until faced with giant turbines” – If any political party thinks that voters will tolerate the desecration of their local view, even if they are told it”s for the sake of global environmental concerns, then it is deluded, says Dominic Lawson in the Mail.
• “Eco-maniac Sadiq Khan is driving London into a dystopian quagmire” – The London Mayor is a master at spinning reality to favour his legacy, while the city around him crashes and burns, writes Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
• “Sadiq Khan’s racial dystopia” – “If someone can explain how judging a family on the basis of their whiteness is any better than judging a family on the basis of their blackness, I would be most grateful,” says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Obsession with reparations leads into a moral quagmire” – Nothing in the world can be done to undo the sins of slavery, writes Stephen Glover in the Mail.
• “Who cares if the Lionesses are white?” – We need to kick identity politics out of football, says Lauren Smith in Spiked.
• “GCSE pupils warned of ‘shock’ as 300,000 fewer top grades predicted” –  GCSE students have been told to brace themselves for a ‘shock’ as 300,000 fewer top marks are set to be awarded as grading returns to pre-Covid standards, reports the Mail.
• “Transgender powerlifter could be banned” – A transgender athlete could be banned from powerlifting after Canada’s union for the sport was ordered to align with the international governing body’s rules on transgender competitors, says the Mail.
• “Sen. Ted Cruz demands Anheuser-Busch hand over Dylan Mulvaney information” – Sen. Ted Cruz has ramped up demands for Anheuser-Busch to hand over documents in relation to an investigation into whether Bud Light’s marketing promotion with a transgender influencer was marketing beer to children, reports the Epoch Times.
• “Yumi Stynes’ eight year-old daughter not ‘grossed out’ by sex book” – Broadcaster Yumi Stynes has revealed her eight year-old daughter “flicked” through her controversial Welcome to Sex children’s book and was not “grossed out” by its graphic content, according to the Mail.
• “BBC advised to tighten social media rules after Gary Lineker tweet row” – Tighter social media restrictions have been recommended to the BBC for freelance presenters of so-called ‘crown jewel’ shows, following the embarrassing Gary Lineker debacle, reports the Mail.
• “Documents show Bill Gates has given $319 million to media outlets ” – Bill Gates has bankrolled hundreds of media outlets and ventures, including CNN and NPR, to the tune of at least $319 million, reports MintPress News.
• “Thought police: The Centre for Countering Digital Hate” – The Centre for Countering Digital Hate are at the epicentre of an open collaboration between corrupt industrialists and compromised politicians, argues David Marks on Substack.
• “Why nobody ‘likes’ your Facebook posts anymore” – Millions of Facebook users were secretly and permanently shadow banned in 2021, and if you’ve ever been irritated by a sudden lack of likes, you were probably one of those targeted, says Darren Birds in Vision News.
• “‘I was sacked for questioning requirements to inculcate my students with gender identity belief as part of teaching criminal law’” – The Free Speech Union has added subtitles to Nick Dixon’s interview with ex-Open University lecturer Dr. Almut Gadow who appeared on Free Speech Nation to discuss why she’s making a stand against political indoctrination and for academic freedom. Please donate to her crowdfunder here.

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