News Round-Up

• “The Covid Inquiry is a continuation of the Brexit drama” – In the Spectator, Oliver Johnson suggests a need for a more constructive examination of the pandemic response beyond political drama.
• “Boris Johnson was right to say the NHS was not overwhelmed” – Boris was right to point out that the NHS was not overwhelmed during Covid, and his advisers were wrong not to heed him, says Fraser Nelson in the Spectator.
• “Boris was right – older people should have been given a choice over lockdown” – It is difficult to recall now the shock of learning that it had become a crime for children to ‘hug’ their grandparents, writes Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
• “The Covid Inquiry: ‘Kafkaesque nightmare doesn’t begin to explain it’” – On Substack, UsForThem provides the next instalment of their Covid Inquiry coverage.
• “The Covid Inquiry is a liberal-elite whitewash” – The Covid Inquiry has exposed the shallowness and mendacity of the U.K. establishment, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
• “Excess mortality: What does the ‘Place of Death’ tell us?” – On Substack, Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson continue their investigation into excess mortality since the pandemic.
• “Covid lockdowns were a giant experiment. It was a failure” – A key lesson of the pandemic was that ‘shutting things down’ didn’t stop the virus, and keeping schools closed didn’t save kids’ lives, write Joe Nocera and Bethany McLean in New York magazine.
• “As the German Health Ministry drowns in millions of unwanted vaccine doses” – Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach is begging Germans to please, please line up for their fifth jab, says Eugyppius on Substack. There aren’t many takers.
• “Does New York City 2020 make any sense?” – On Substack, the team at PANDA Uncut outline eight different reasons why they think the data surrounding the 2020 spring mortality wave in NYC might be incorrect.
• “Another doctor dares to challenge tyranny” – Physicians who dare to tell the truth about COVID-19 and the COVID-19 vaccines are up against some powerful money, says Colleen Huber in the Epoch Times.
• “The Wuhan cover-up: Scientists lied as people died” – Four years on, we know that Anthony Fauci conspired with virologists to deceive the public and label critics ‘conspiracy theorists’, writes Paul D. Thacker on Substack.
• “WHO ‘International Health Regulations’ amendments: Letters for Health Secretary and your local MP” – The team at Together has compiled some template letters you can send to the Health Secretary, Steve Barclay, and to your local MP to oppose the WHO’s proposed ‘International Health Regulations’.
• “Pro-Palestine vandals smash windows of a Starbucks in Yorkshire” – A gang of pro-Palestine vandals smashed the windows of a Starbucks in Yorkshire after calling for a boycott of businesses accused of supporting Israel, reports the Mail.
• “Police ‘got it wrong’ when officers tore down posters of Israeli hostages, forces say” – The GMP Chief Constable has admitted that police in Manchester “got it wrong” when they removed posters of Israeli hostages from parts of the city, reports the Telegraph.
• “The tragic death of Labour Zionism” – Labour’s historic Zionist instincts have faded, writes Richard Johnson in UnHerd.
• “How campus became a safe space for antisemitism” – Decades of demonising Israel have allowed the oldest hatred to flourish in British universities, says Joanna Williams in Spiked.
• “The genocidal logic of academic ideology” – A civilisational darkness has emerged from America’s higher education institutions, writes Jacob Howland in City Journal.
• “Nigel Farage’s Coutts and NatWest woes sees the term ‘debanking’ added to the English dictionary” – ‘Debanking’ has been added to the English dictionary following Nigel Farage’s high-profile row with Coutts and NatWest, reports the Mail.
• “Europe is in the grip of a birth rate crisis – and Britain is heading the same way” – The U.K.’s fertility rate is in decline, but a better childcare system and more affordable housing would enable more young people to become parents, writes Polly Dunbar in the Telegraph.
• “‘Tiredness on all sides’ over war in Ukraine, Italian PM tells prank caller” – The Italian PM Giorgia Meloni told a prank caller there was “a lot of tiredness” over the war in Ukraine and that she had some ideas on how to “find a way out”, reports the Guardian.
• “In defence of the office romance” – In the wake of Philip Schofield’s ‘unwise but not illegal’ relationship with a much younger employee, ITV has issued a new policy. And it’s bad, says Esther Watson in the Spectator.
• “Britain’s largest steelworks to cut 3,000 jobs in Net Zero push” – Three quarters of roles at Tata Steel’s Port Talbot mill face the axe in a switch to electric furnaces, reports the Telegraph.
• “Edenbridge Guy: Effigy of Sadiq Khan to go up in flames” – A giant effigy of Sadiq Khan is set to be burnt at a Kent town’s bonfire over anger at the Ulez expansion, says the BBC.
• “Why wind power won’t cut our energy bills” – Ignore the misinformation from the green lobby; Net Zero is a financial catastrophe, writes James Woudhuysen in Spiked.
• “Ding-DONG! Another wake-up call for wind enthusiasts” – In the Argonautica Blog, Barry Norris discusses Orsted’s (formerly DONG) recent $4 billion impairment of its U.S. offshore wind assets.
• “Documentary: A Climate Conversation” – The Heartland Institute presents A Climate Conversation, a new documentary that rejects the climate of extremism in favour of a constructive debate on climate change.
• “Scottish feminists lose appeal on definition of ’woman’” – A Scottish court has issued its verdict in an appeal hearing on the meaning of “sex” in the Equality Act – and it‘s not good, according to UnHerd.
• “Waleshe/he” – The Welsh Assembly has decided that ‘a woman is a woman’, even if she is not a woman, says Prof. Roger Watson in the New Conservative.
• “When did we change our minds about Little Britain?” – In the Spectator, Gareth Roberts is troubled by the condemnation of the previously popular show, Little Britain.
• “The Academy’s ‘inclusion standards’ are a disaster for cinema” – The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences forcing filmmakers to meet diversity quotas will stifle artistic freedom, argues Maren Thom in Spiked.
• “Bud Light brewer to make $1 billion payout in wake of trans backlash” – The owner of Budweiser and Corona is to hand investors $1 billion in a bid to restore confidence after its catastrophic wrong turn with Dylan Mulvaney, reports the Telegraph.
• “BLM activist jailed after spending money she raised for youth group on herself” – An organiser of a Black Lives Matter protest has been jailed for two and a half years for using her profile to raise money for a charity and then spending it on herself, reports the Telegraph.
• “Fraudulent BLM activists hoodwinked the British establishment” – Lessons must be learnt from the era of BLM-mania, and attempts to frame Britain as irredeemably racist should never be tolerated again, says Rakib Ehsan in the Telegraph.
• “Grievance training” – Academia’s narrative about ‘land appropriation’ and ‘cultural genocide’ is not only dubious factually, it also offers a justification for revenge against certain groups, argue Dorian S. Abbot and Casey B. Mulligan in City Journal.
• “Extraordinarily powerful images showing the failure of modelling” – On X, Matt Ridley has reproduced startling evidence of the failure of modelling to accurately predict outcomes during the Covid pandemic.

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