News Round-Up

• “Early deaths from heart disease soar to 10-year high in wake of Covid” – Analysis by the British Heart Foundation has found that 80 people in every 100,000 in England died from heart and circulatory diseases before the age of 75 in 2022, according to the Telegraph.
• “The Covid Inquiry has damaged Sturgeon’s legacy beyond repair” – The Covid Inquiry has revealed an SNP government embroiled in secrecy, cover-up and the politicisation of a deadly pandemic, writes John Ferry in the Spectator.
• “U.S. and Chinese scientists made plans to engineer coronaviruses like SARS-CoV-2, new documents show” – Was EcoHealth Alliance’s 2018 DEFUSE proposal a blueprint for bioweapons-related experiments that led to the COVID-19 lab leak? asks Alex Gutentag on the Public Substack.
• “The SARS-CoV-2 transmission riddle – Part One” – Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson explore the spread of SARS-CoV-2, focusing on the pandemic in Italy during the late winter of 2020.
• “Why was the BioNTech/Pfizer mRNA vaccine not recalled in February 2021?” – The biowarfare network was so hell-bent on demonstrating the “safety and efficacy” of its precious mRNA platform that nothing could stand in its way, writes Debbie Lerman for the Brownstone Institute.
• “History will remember Tegnell’s Covid heroism” – Sweden weathered global criticism of its Covid response largely thanks to Anders Tegnell’s scientifically grounded, common sense approach, says Prof. Halvor Naess for the Brownstone Institute.
• “Nicola Sturgeon ‘did discuss using Covid to boost independence drive’” – Nicola Sturgeon is facing fury after Scottish Government papers show her Cabinet did discuss using the pandemic to boost the drive to break up the U.K., reports the Mail.
• “Sturgeon should stay as a living monument to vanity” – The Mail’s Stephen Daisley is entirely unsurprised by the confirmation in the Covid Inquiry that Nicola Sturgeon had retained none of her messages from the pandemic.
• “Pro-Palestine group targets Twickenham Stadium with red paint” – Twickenham Stadium was vandalised with red paint and “Free Gaza” messages in a pro-Palestine protest against a military arms exhibition at the rugby venue, reports the BBC.
• “Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer hails GB News for ‘balance’ after warning issued over BBC bias” – The Culture Secretary has accused the BBC of political bias, saying that “impartiality is about perception”, according to GB News.
• “BBC to get tougher scrutiny amid bias concerns” – Ofcom is set to police the BBC’s websites and social media due to viewer concerns over impartiality, reports the Telegraph.
• “Gary Lineker is running rings around the BBC” – In it’s fixture with Gary Lineker, the BBC seems to be allowing the ex-footballer to referee his own game, says Nicole Lampert in CapX.
• “Home Office spends £36 million on private boats to pick up Channel migrants” – The Home Office has been forced to charter private patrol boats for a year at a cost of £36 million to help the Border Force pick up migrants in the Channel, according to the Times.
• “Peers reveal escape plan for refugees sent to Rwanda: just nick a Toblerone” – If you are a refugee, sent to Kigali International, simply nick a Toblerone upon arrival and you’ll be on the first flight back to London, says Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
• “Civil servants are being sent on leadership training courses” – Civil servants are being sent on costly leadership training courses run by the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, reveals the Mail.
• “Tory Right to launch another new group” – Guido Fawkes reveals that a group of Right-wing Tory MPs are launching a new group called ‘Popular Conservatism’, aka ‘PopCon’.
• “Reform has just four weeks to transform British politics” – We are about to discover whether Richard Tice and Nigel Farage’s insurgent outfit is for real, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Telegraph.
• “Britain has become a lawless country where good people have to live in fear” – A crisis of faith in British justice is fast approaching, writes Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
• “Germany should hold ‘Dexit’ vote on leaving EU, says AfD leader” – Alice Weidel says if an Alternative for Germany government cannot persuade the European Commission to change “it should let the people decide”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Top author denounced as ‘icon of literary far Right’” – One of France’s most popular and bestselling writers, Sylvain Tesson, has fallen victim to the country’s culture wars, says Charles Bremner in the Times.
• “Mark Carney’s Net Zero alliance facing overhaul after ‘anti-woke’ backlash” – Mark Carney’s Net Zero lobby group is facing an overhaul of its membership after ‘anti-woke’ campaigners demanded a shake-up, reports the Telegraph.
• “Peer who praised rising temperatures appointed to climate crisis committee” – Labour says the appointment of David Frost to a key parliamentary committee on the climate crisis shows that “wacky” climate views are no longer confined to the Tory party fringes, according to the Guardian. We send our congratulations to Lord Frost.
• “Fury after school closes six times in three months due to heat pump” – A primary school in Kent has been forced to close six times in just three months because of problems with its new £358,000 heat pump system, reports the Mail.
• “New ‘green’ ambulances unusable by paramedics” – New eco-friendly ambulances are being parked up across the country because paramedics are too tall or have feet too big to drive them, says the Mail.
• “Why big fleet buyers are going into reverse on electric cars” – State-backed plans to bring about an EV revolution are backfiring, says Tom Haynes in the Telegraph.
• “The Met Office’s bizarre storm advice exposes the new British sickness” – The plethora of nonsensical advice from safety-first public bodies is designed to distract us from late trains, potholed roads and our broken NHS, writes Judith Woods in the Telegraph.
• “Badenoch steps in as trans row ignites over gender pay gap” – The Business Secretary has pledged to intervene as companies are told by the Government Equalities Office (which she’s in charge of) to collect data based on what sex employees identify as rather than their biological sex, reveals the Telegraph.
• “Jo Phoenix wins tribunal case over gender-critical views” – A judge has ruled that the Open University “feared” being seen to support gender-critical beliefs when it failed to protect a professor from harassment, according to UnHerd.
• “Get woke, go broke: mass layoffs at Sports Illustrated after publisher loses license” – ZeroHedge explores the amazing fall of Sports Illustrated, the latest company to go broke after getting woke.
• “The demise of Sports Illustrated is worth noting” – It’s stunning to compare journalism today to the media organisations that were thriving a couple of decades ago, remarks Bill Rice Jr. on Substack.
• “Is DEI collapsing?” – Writing for the American Institute of Economic Research, Dr. Paul Schwennesen admits to feeling a certain sense of gratification at watching Harvard reap what it has sown.
• “The shameless campaign to silence Jordan Peterson” – The world-famous psychologist has been ordered by the Ontario College of Psychologists to undergo ‘social media training’ if he’s to retain his licence to practice, reports Spiked.
• “Is the world getting worse?” – On Substack, Nick Dixon explores how a 2001 music video sparked a reflection on the perceived loss of societal freedom, unity and cultural quality since the 1990s.
• “A guide for the politically homeless” – On the Persuasion Substack, Sam Kahn explains why we need a political realignment.
• “Christopher Rufo and the problem of anti-wokeness” – On Substack, Thomas Presser reviews Christopher Rufo’s new book, America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything.
• “Ron DeSantis and the failure of pseudo-Trumpism” – In UnHerd, Michael Lind discusses the recent rejection of DeSantis’s pseudo-Trumpism by Republican primary voters.
• “Is there any way in hell Nikki Haley can stop Trump?” – The Free Press catches up with Nikki Haley on the Republican primary campaign trail.
• “Keir Starmer, you’re unfit for public office!” – TalkTV’s Julia Hartley-Brewer slams Keir Starmer for his speech on culture wars and says he has been stoking that conflict his entire political career.

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