News Round-Up

• “At least £550 million of Covid drugs wasted in the U.K.” – Britain’s unused Covid drug stock is the highest in Europe, with more than one million expired antiviral courses – a figure that could double by June, reports the Telegraph.
• “Ireland had one of highest excess death rates in Europe during 2023, figures show” – New data from the EU shows that Ireland had one of the highest rates of excess deaths in 2023, according to Gript.
• “Scientists detect spike protein from Covid vaccination in Long Covid patients” – A new study suggests spike protein persists in the body much longer than previously thought and may contribute to Long Covid, says the Epoch Times.
• “Smokescreens – Part Two” – Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan explore the confusion surrounding the term ‘flu’, distinguishing it as both a general syndrome and a specific disease.
• “Biden is abandoning Israel” – America is distancing itself from the IDF’s military action, even as the hostages remain in peril, writes Bethany Mandel in the Telegraph.
• “Gazans could be sent to Congo when Israel war ends” – Gazans could be relocated to Congo at the end of Israel’s war against Hamas under a “voluntary migration scheme”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Johnson condemns Met Police investigation into Israel ‘war crimes’” – In the Telegraph, Boris Johnson condemns a Met Police investigation into Israel over alleged war crimes in Gaza.
• “‘I am a Jew’ – the power and the danger of admitting who you are” – Jewish self-identification is profoundly scary because it means dropping our final layer of protection, says Chana Hughes in CapX.
• “Claudine Gay and the limits of social engineering at Harvard” – Universities’ purpose must once again be to nurture the best minds, not to engineer social utopias, argues Bret Stephens in the NY Times.
• “Class war behind Harvard’s embrace of DEI race pseudoscience ” – The Public Substack team discuss plagiarism, the resignation of Claudine Gay and the need for alternatives in higher education.
• “The fall of Claudine Gay is a blow to the cult of DEI” – For those who’ve been bravely standing against the woke tyranny on college campuses, Gay’s resignation will be greeted as a massive victory, says Jenny Holland in Spiked.
• “BBC criticised for calling disgraced Harvard boss a ‘casualty of campus culture wars’” – The BBC has been criticised for calling Harvard’s President a “casualty of campus culture wars” following her resignation, reports the Telegraph.
• “Claudine Gay has exposed the rot at the heart of the woke establishment” – The former Harvard President failed to stand up against racism, yet the BBC and the Left are bizarrely treating her as the victim, says Douglas Murray in the Telegraph.
• “How to fix Harvard” – In the Free Press, Bill Ackman lays out what needs to be done to fix Harvard University.
• “Britain is importing third world conflicts onto its streets” – Diversity is anything but an unadulterated good, says Rakib Ehsan in the Telegraph.
• “Britain is forgetting what it means to be a successful, dynamic country” – We’re becoming scarily used to decline and decay, warns David Frost in the Telegraph.
• “Debunking degrowth” – It is under the guise of environmentalism that the anti-growth ideology is most often promoted today, writes Christopher Snowdon in the Critic.
• “No, Britain’s wealth was not built on slavery” – The Industrial Revolution, not the slave trade, was the key motor of British prosperity, says James Heartfield in Spiked.
• “Trans activist Munroe Bergdorf representing women is dangerous” – That a transgender ‘activist’ should be chosen to represent British women would be laughable if it weren’t so dangerous, writes Nana Akua in the Mail.
• “The hypocrisy of France’s feminist movement” – What rankles most with the majority in France is the double standards of the feminist movement, says Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
• “Is this the death of cinema?” – The recent eligibility changes for the Oscars represent the most serious assault ever seen on the workings of the film industry, writes Russell David in his Mad World blog.
• “‘I’m not pledging allegiance to your new religion of modern wokeism’” – Presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy delivers an eloquent condemnation of the woke religion when pressed by a Washington Post reporter to condemn white supremacy.

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