News Round-Up

• “Chairman of Post Office also headed courts service during postmasters’ appeals” – The former chairman of the Post Office presided over its attempt to block an appeal by convicted postmasters while he was at the same time Chairman of His Majesty Courts and Tribunal Service, reports the Telegraph.
• “Ed Davey’s self-righteousness has caught up with him” – The Lib Dem leader will never recover from the Post Office scandal, says Patrick O’Flynn in Spiked.
• “New disease VEXAS syndrome manifests after Covid and vaccination” – Some vaccinated and Covid-infected people are being diagnosed with a new type of auto-inflammatory disease called VEXAS syndrome, reports the Epoch Times.
• “New Medicare data makes it clear that the Covid vaccines have killed millions of people worldwide” – CDC data shows the Covid vaccines were a huge failure and increased all-cause mortality, says Steve Kirsch on Substack.
• “Covid mRNA vaccines required no safety oversight: Part Two” – The BioNTech/Pfizer Covid mRNA vaccines were military-approved for bio-threats, not civilian diseases, writes Debbie Lerman for the Brownstone Institute.
• “Mortality rates and life expectancy” – Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson discuss mortality rates in the U.K., focusing on a study indicating a decline in life expectancy since the early 2010s.
• “Pressure grows on BBC to sanction Gary Lineker” – Pressure is growing on the BBC to sanction Gary Lineker after the presenter reposted a call for Israel’s football team to be banned from international tournaments, according to the Mail.
• “These accusations of ‘genocide’ bring shame on humanity” – South Africa’s case against Israel is the most absurd and sinister spectacle of the 21st Century so far, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “‘All the President’s Mien’” – In Taki’s Magazine, Theodore Dalrymple gives his take on the disgraced former Harvard President Claudine Gay.
• “Another foreign brawl? We can’t even fix our potholes” – The U.K. cannot tear itself away from the delusion that it’s a Great Power, says Peter Hitchens in the Mail.
• “Labour pledges money from private school VAT raid for seven different policies” – Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of “stretching the limits of credulity” after unveiling a seventh policy to be funded by his tax raid on private schools, reports the Telegraph.
• “Why the elites fear democracy” – The elites are terrified of populism because they are terrified of democracy, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
• “Rwanda bill: Kemi Badenoch told PM it does not go far enough” – Rishi Sunak is under increasing pressure by senior Tories to toughen up his Rwanda bill, reports the Times. If he doesn’t and the Government is defeated on the Bill’s Third Reading, can the PM survive?
• “Roscrea at ‘tipping point’ says Michael Lowry as immigration protests intensify” – The small Irish town of Roscrea has become the latest flashpoint as tensions surrounding immigration policies escalate, writes Sarah O’Reilly in Gript.
• “Humza Yousaf’s brother-in-law charged with drug offences” – Humza Yousaf’s brother-in-law has been charged in connection with drug offences, according to STV.
• “SNP green scheme to cost £3.5 million and take almost 1,000 years to recoup costs” – A taxpayer-funded green scheme, designed to hit SNP climate targets, will take almost 1,000 years to recoup its costs, reports the Telegraph.
• “Why Keir Starmer’s plan to ‘rewire Britain’ is already coming unstuck” – Industry insiders warn that Labour’s goal to create a ‘clean energy superpower’ borders on the fanciful, write Matt Oliver and Jonathan Leake in the Telegraph.
• “The terrorist past of 15-minute city inventor Carlos Moreno” – You wouldn’t want Carlos Moreno designing your city any more than you’d want Josef Fritzl digging out your basement, says Philip James in Vision News.
• “BDS is a mask for hate” – The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement denies the right of Israel to exist and public bodies have no business supporting it, says Miriam Cates in the Critic.
• “Sylvia Rivera: the dark truth about a trans icon” – The late New York drag queen Sylvia Rivera was no hero of the gay-liberation movement, writes Fred Sargeant in Spiked.
• “Is DEI risking air traffic control safety?” – In UnHerd, Laurel Duggan explores concerns about the effect of DEI initiatives in the aviation industry.
• “The genocide of Christians the world ignores” – Fulani Islamist militia groups have slaughtered scores of Nigerian Christians, and the world has remained virtually silent, writes Tom Lennie in TCW – Defending Freedom.
• “The abdication of responsibility” – A monarch quitting undercuts the point of the institution he or she represents, argues Karl Gustel Wärnberg in the Critic.
• “Cuba approves law for ‘death with dignity’. What could possibly go wrong?” – Cubans may not have autonomy to choose their politicians, but they will have autonomy to choose euthanasia, says Michael Cook in Gript.
• “Clarence Thomas and me” – To speak as a black man at odds with the consensus of other blacks can be burdensome – and liberating, writes Glenn C. Loury in City Journal.
• “Bill Gates hopes AI can reduce ‘polarisation’, save ‘democracy’, ignores censorship implications” – The power to control the narrative on critical issues could be an unintended consequence of AI programmed with specific democratic ideals. Or perhaps that’s the intention, says Cindy Harper in Reclaim The Net.
• “‘He fondled her jelly babies and she rubbed his tic tacs’” – An AI video parody of King Charles is circulating on social media, depicting him delivering a confectionery-themed (and innuendo-filled) children’s tale. Very funny.

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