News Round-Up

• “FDA clears new COVID-19 vaccines in bid to counter waning effectiveness” – U.S. drug regulators have cleared new COVID-19 vaccines to try to counter the waning effectiveness of the current lot, reports the Epoch Times.
• “How hot was your lot? Bad batches of Covid jabs in Japan” – Guy Gin examines a study by Prof. Seiji Kojima revealing varying rates of adverse events and deaths among different batches of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.
• “The dirty secret about how masks really ‘work’” – Masks don’t work by controlling the virus. Masks work by controlling the people, writes Dr. Clayton J. Baker for Brownstone.
• “Let’s fasten our wits” – On Substack, Omar Khan criticises the alarmist and fear-mongering narrative surrounding COVID-19, arguing that it is based on faulty data and ideology rather than science.
• “Civil servants were ‘in tears’ after Brexit, says Lord McDonald” – A top official has claimed Foreign Office mandarins were “in tears” after the Brexit vote, reports the Sun.
• “MPs call for suspension of Counter Disinformation Unit for suppressing free speech” – A cross-party group of MPs has said a Government unit accused of suppressing free speech should be suspended immediately and face an independent review, according to the Telegraph.
• “Free speech is lost in Britain, where the rich silence reporters” – The truth is that Britain does not have free speech – it has expensive speech, says Geoffrey Robertson KC in the Telegraph.
• “Is this the end of the Soros empire?” – Under the guise of a “radical shift of strategic direction”, the Open Society Foundations would appear to be effectively withdrawing from Europe, writes Thomas Fazi in UnHerd.
• “A kiss is just a kiss” – The uproar over Luis Rubiales’ fleeting outburst of uninhibited joy is ludicrous, says Heather Mac Donald in Quillette.
• “Britain needs a ‘Minister for Men’” – Too little attention is paid in Britain to the problems faced by boys and young males, argues Nick Fletcher MP in the Telegraph.
• “AfD candidate poised to win head mayorship of Nordhausen; Sahra Wagenknecht announces plans to form her own protest party” – As the German ruling establishment continues to alienate voters and lose ground, a new kind of politics is taking shape, according to Eugyppius on Substack.
• “Don’t fine drivers for doing 31mph in a 30mph zone” – Drivers could be fined for going one mph over the speed limit under plans from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Walking and Cycling, warns Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator.
• “Luxury super cars descend on huge anti-Ulez demo in London” – Supercar owners drove their vehicles into Central London to protest against Sadiq Khan’s expanded Ultra Low Emission Zone, reports the Mail.
• “U.K. commits $2 billion to UN-backed climate fund” – Rish Sunak has said Britain will give $2 billion to the Green Climate Fund to help developing countries cope with climate change, according to Reuters.
• “Will ‘climate stakeholders’ engineer an economic depression to save the planet from global warming?” – A deep recession is the most practical way to halve carbon emissions within a year, says Igor Chudov on Substack.
• “Man who invoked Dad’s Army with ‘stupid girl’ comment guilty of sexism” – An accountant who misquoted Dad’s Army and called a female colleague a “stupid girl” was sexist, a disciplinary panel has concluded, according to the Telegraph.
• “Voter ID in England led to racial and disability discrimination, report finds” – An all-party report on the rules governing the 2023 local elections has called the voter ID system a “poisoned cure”, reports the Guardian.
• “Antiques Roadshow expert asks guests whether they would repatriate ancestor’s African artefacts” – The Antiques Roadshow is under fire after suggesting that gifts given to a British friend by the former Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie should be repatriated, says the Telegraph.
• “Courtney Lawes: England Is not a racist country” – Bravo to rugby player Courtney Lawes for refusing to jump on the virtue-signallers’ bandwagon, instead affirming that “England is not a racist country”, writes Dr. Roger Watson in the New Conservative.
• “From conservative to ‘woke’: The truth about Disney’s politics” – From Donald Duck’s anti-Nazi propaganda to a revisionist Snow White, Disney has been a political shape-shifter for 100 years, says Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
• “California may take children from parents who oppose their gender transition” – California Governor Gavin Newsom could soon sign radical legislation that would enable the state to remove trans kids from their parents’ custody if they refuse to assent to life-changing surgery, write Alex Gutentag and Madeleine Rowley on Substack.
• “Lyons on the American ‘managerial regime’” – A good summary of the argument in N.S. Lyons’s book-length essay The China Convergence by Charles Haywood in the American Conservative.
• “How social-justice activists revived anti-Semitism” – In Spiked, Jake Wallis Simons takes on ‘Israelophobia’ and the wokewashing of the world’s oldest hatred.
• “Novak Djokovic exacts revenge with blistering U.S. Open display” – Novak Djokovic has exacted his revenge on the U.S. Open after taking down Daniil Medvedev in straight sets, reports news.com.au.
• “Novak Djokovic features in ‘Moderna’s Shot of the Day’ at U.S. Open” – Dr. Simon Goddek points out the irony on X of ESPN featuring the ‘Moderna Shot of the Day’ by the only player who refused the ‘vaccine’.

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