News Round-Up

• “What’s happening with Covid in the U.K.? Experts weigh-in” – Fears of a new global wave of COVID-19 have escalated following the identification of a novel variant named ‘Pirola’, which experts are calling ‘the real deal’, reports the Mail. Haven’t we heard this somewhere before?
• “‘A whole generation were left to die’: The Covid care home scandal” – The Telegraph speaks to several of the 30 families who are now suing the Government over the deaths of their relatives in care homes.
• “Federal court rules against FDA over anti-Ivermectin posts” – A federal court has ruled that the U.S. FDA likely overstepped its authority when it told Americans to “stop” using Ivermectin against COVID-19, reports the Epoch Times.
• “New Zealand PM: ‘There was no compulsory vaccination. People made their own choices’” – James Melville posts a video on X of New Zealand PM Chris Hipkins saying there were no mandatory Covid vaccinations… and also saying there were.
• “Conflicting evidence of mRNA technology raises serious concerns about rush for use in new vaccine development” – The U.S. Government and pharmaceutical companies are investing in new mRNA vaccines for infectious diseases and cancer, fuelling a lucrative mRNA platform valued at $136.2 billion, reports the Epoch Times.
• “Medical doctors, or social workers?” – Physicians need to practice medicine, not worry about the “social determinants of health”, writes Dr. Stanley Goldfarb in City Journal.
• “Banks who wrongly deny accounts to politicians face fines, watchdog warns” – The Financial Conduct Authority says checks on ‘politically exposed persons’ should not feel like “the financial equivalent of someone rifling through your bin”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Douglas Murray: Send illegal migrants to Islington – see how liberal opinion likes it then” – Illegal migration now seems to have got so bad that the Government is relying on the weather to bring the numbers down, writes Douglas Murray in the Telegraph.
• “Turn on your heat pump when wind is blowing, Government pleads” – Families will be urged to turn on heat pumps when the wind is blowing and charge their electric cars at night under Net Zero plans to save energy, reports the Telegraph.
• “Council confirms low traffic neighbourhood in Fenham to be scrapped” – A low traffic neighbourhood in Newcastle is to be scrapped after city transport chiefs said it had made traffic worse on surrounding residential streets, reports Chronicle Live.
• “Unsafe and ‘looking like a dump’: How Brighton’s controversial eco policy went to seed” – Brighton’s Green council’s decision to ban weed killer has created a city full of unsafe, overgrown roads and pavements, writes Boudicca Fox-Leonard in the Telegraph.
• “‘The green movement is a disinformation campaign’” – In Spiked, Michael Shellenberger explains why climate change is not the end of the world.
• “Rise of the six-figure Substackers: How bloggers are raking it in” – Bloggers including British writers are raking in six-figure sums as they turn to self-publishing on the Substack platform, according to the Mail.
• “The radical subjectivism of the Irish hate speech bill” – How is it that Ireland can have witnessed a sharp rise in the reporting of hate-related incidents just as the Irish Government’s own survey data indicates the country is becoming an increasingly tolerant country, asks Freddie Attenborough in the Critic.
• “BBC under pressure after headline omitted paedophile’s drag career” – BBC bosses are under pressure to explain why a report about a convicted paedophile was edited to remove references to his career as a drag queen, reports the Mail.
• “On your bike, Vogue – we can see what you think of women’s sport” – When it comes to promoting diversity in appearance, women’s magazines would rather include young male faces than older female ones, writes Kathleen Stock in the Times.
• “How should Labour approach the ‘culture wars’?” – The Left is deeply divided on issues of race and identity, says Rakib Ehsan in CapX.
• “From Sinéad to Róisín, why blasphemous women get cancelled” – The trans persecution of Róisín Murphy echoes the religious persecution of Sinéad O’Connor, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “The obsession with trans inclusivity is making a mockery of equality” – ‘Be kind’ has become a pernicious mantra in British society, allowing some rights to be placed above others. It must be scrapped, says Kate Barker in the Telegraph.
• “Call of Duty to introduce AI-based ‘toxicity’ censorship tools” – The globally popular Call of Duty franchise is jumping into the murky waters of AI-powered censorship, says Cindy Harper in Reclaim The Net.
• “Education Secretary Gillian Keegan swears on camera after thinking they’re no longer rolling” – Watch Gillian Keegan use the f-word when she thought the cameras had stopped rolling.

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