News Round-Up

• “Mysterious pneumonia ripping through Chinese schools sparks fears” – Scientists are calling for vigilance and transparency from China amid reports of a mystery cluster of pneumonia that bears eerie similarities to the early Covid outbreak, reports the Mail.
• “Parents see schools as a ‘pick-and-choose’ exercise since lockdown, says Ofsted chief” – Ofsted’s chief inspector has said that more pupils are missing school, as there is “less respect” for full-time education post-lockdown, says the Telegraph.
• “Pro-lockdown obsessives still long to be told what to do” – In the absence of regular announcements on how to live now, many are still following Covid infection prevention measures, writes Jemima Lewis in the Telegraph.
• “The Covid Inquiry has unmasked the flaws in trusting ‘the science’” – There is no use following the science if the science comes from only one direction and there is no open debate about its efficacy or otherwise, says Rod Liddle in the Spectator.
• “Meet Ben Haynes: Director of Media Relations for the CDC” – On Substack, Steve Kirsch reveals the reasons why the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention lacks record-level data for the Covid vaccines – and why they don’t want to see that data either.
• “Pharmacovigilance gone to the dogs” – An animal vaccine has been voluntarily recalled by the manufacturer following reports of adverse events in vaccinated dogs. If only this level of precaution was taken with Covid vaccines for humans, says Rebekah Barnett on Substack.
• “The New York Times finally admits to the harm done to children” – More than three years too late, the New York Times has now given permission to acknowledge what was obvious from the beginning – that school closures during the pandemic were an act of terrible harm, writes Jennifer Sey for the Brownstone Institute.
• “Virology poses a far greater threat to the world than AI” – Bad actors worldwide know how easy it would be to use virology to bring the world economy to its knees, warns Matt Ridley in the Spectator.
• “There is a scientific fraud epidemic – and we are ignoring the cure” – Rooting out scientific fraud should not depend on dedicated amateurs who take personal legal risks for the greater good, writes Anjana Ahuja in the FT.
• “Pro-Palestine protesters calling for ‘Jihad’ can be prosecuted for ‘encouraging terrorism’” – The Government’s adviser on counter-terrorism has announced that chants of “Jihad” at pro-Palestine protests can be prosecuted as encouraging terrorism, according to GB News.
• “Wembley Stadium to stop lighting arch to mark terror attacks and social campaigns” – The Football Association will now only illuminate the Wembley arch for football and entertainment, following criticism for not lighting the arch after the October 7th attacks, reports the Mirror.
• “BBC reporters accuse it of favouritism towards Israel” – The BBC has been accused by its own journalists of favouritism towards Israel and a failure to “humanise Palestinian victims” in the ongoing conflict, says the Telegraph.
• “Gary Lineker is making an utter fool of himself over Israel” – Gary Lineker’s latest comments over Israel prove that he must stop tweeting about current affairs, once and for all, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “In this festival of hate, our allies shine like the stars (thank you, Alison Moyet)” – Words of support for Jews, such as the ones from Alison Moyet, are received with something close to joy, writes Stephen Pollard in the Jewish Chronicle.
• “Will Marine Le Pen defend French Jews?” – Antisemitism in France has taken a radical new turn, observes David A. Bell in UnHerd.
• “When it comes to Palestine, the kids aren’t all right” – The Government of Israel, unlike China, is vulnerable to international opinion, argues Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
• “Mass migration has been an economic and political catastrophe” – It is time that the consensus, suggesting that immigration always and everywhere increases growth and makes us richer, was smashed, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “The Tories have shattered the immigration dream” – The failures of multiculturalism are threatening our economy and the fabric of our society, warns Ben Habib in the Telegraph.
• “The ‘sick’ are perfectly capable of working” – Will Job Centre staff stop working from home and start carrying out face-to-face interviews with the unemployed, ponders Jill Kirby in the Telegraph.
• “‘Justice is what the judge had for breakfast’: When rights matter and when they don’t” – On Substack, Dr. David McGrogan discusses what immigration, Brexit and lockdowns don’t have in common.
• “Remainers are now calling Brexit voters thick. They couldn’t be more wrong” – Remember when the liberal Left supposedly championed people who never went to university? Now it seems to hold them in contempt, says Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
• “Why Geert Wilders won” – Geert Wilders, who campaigned on the idea of ‘stopping’ immigration, appears to have benefitted from widespread mistrust of the Dutch Government, writes Senay Boztas in the Spectator.
• “Bank of England bond-buying to hit taxpayers with £126 billion bill” – Official figures show that taxpayers are facing a £126 billion bill to cover losses on the Bank of England’s bond buying scheme, reports the Telegraph.
• “Discounts on new EVs rise 323%” – With consumer demand for EVs waning, the average combined cash and finance discount on a new battery-powered car has grown to a whopping £4,399 in the last 12 months, says the Mail.
• “The Scottish Greens’ oil crusade is coming unstuck” – The Scottish Greens have long campaigned against oil, but they are unhappy about the consequences of their plan, writes Stephen Daisley in the Spectator.
• “The renegade progressives” – Has the University and College Union discovered freedom of speech, asks Umut Özkırımlı in the Critic.
• “Third attempt to show gender debate film at University goes ahead despite protest” – Protesters have failed to stop a controversial film on women’s rights and trans issues from being shown at the University of Edinburgh, reports the Herald.
• “Laurence Fox is ‘a colour-blind liberal and anti-racist’, court told” – The High Court has been told that Laurence Fox “is a colour-blind liberal” who doesn’t like racism, according to the Telegraph.
• “I’m A Celeb viewers slam ‘ignorant and uneducated’ Nella Rose” – I’m A Celebrity viewers have slammed Nella Rose following her clash with Nigel Farage, which saw the YouTuber accuse the former UKIP boss of being “anti-immigrant”, reports the Mail.
• “Kemi Badenoch hits out at museum over black women plague death claim” – Kemi Badenoch has accused the Museum of London of publishing “unreliable” research that could “whip up tensions around history and racism”, says the Mail.
• “History-hating Britain is the wokest country in the West” – Re-writing history to suit the identity-obsessed narcissisms of the modern world is nothing less than cultural vandalism, writes Madeleine Kearns in the Telegraph.
• “Happy decolonisation weekend!” – Since Thanksgiving is inherently problematic due to its historical roots and perpetuation of various -isms, Thomas Buckley, on Substack, proposes renaming the occasion ‘Decolonisation Weekend’.
• “Argentina: The must-know facts” – The fight we are going to witness in Argentina over the next few months will be between the workers and the shirkers, says Aldo Rustichini in Aporia.
• “‘Does Israel not think that Palestinian lives are valued as highly as Israeli lives?’” – Israeli spokesman Elon Levy is momentarily left speechless by a question from Kay Burley during a Sky News interview.

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