News Round-Up

• “The SNP’s Covid reckoning” – In the Spectator, Iain Macwhirter says we now know from evidence to the Covid Inquiry that Scottish Government ministers were as prone to offensive language as Dominic Cummings.
• “Male Infants and Male Rat Pups Disproportionally Affected by mRNA Covid Vaccines Given to Pregnant Mothers” – Igor Chudov on a mysterious sex difference demonstrated by two separate studies.
• “The insane experiment behind the Covid pandemic and Disease X, Part One” – TCW‘s Paula Jardine says if ever a cure was urgently needed, it’s for the unrelenting medical nihilism of “pandemic preparedness”. Find part two here.
• “Electric car acceleration ‘makes crashes more likely’” – Electric car drivers are having more accidents because they are not used to the powerful acceleration, driving up premiums, a top insurance broker has claimed, according to the Telegraph.
• “What is the real purpose of the German nuclear phase-out, and why is the policy shrouded in so much silence and mystery?” – Eugyppius on the German Government’s fights to keep secret records related to the shutdown of the country’s last nuclear plants.
• “Climate change to push up home insurance bills 20% next year” – The Telegraph reports that a supposed increase in the frequency and severity of storms is driving up U.K. insurers’ costs, according to accountancy firm PwC. Except, of course, there’s been no change in these things.
• “Teacher who showed Muhammad cartoon still in hiding three years later” – The former head of religious studies at Batley Grammar School in West Yorkshire is unlikely ever to return home, his family say, according to the Times.
• “Britain halts aid to UN agency after claims staff helped Hamas attacks” – The U.K. has suspended funding for the main UN relief agency for Palestinian refugees after 12 of its employees were accused of taking part in the October 7th attack on Israel, reports the Times.
• “The ICJ has been captured by antisemitic propaganda” – South Africa’s case was a self-evidently absurd ploy designed to further undermine Israel’s right to self-defence, but the judges failed to recognise this, says Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
• “‘Weakened’ Ukraine can’t launch offensive against Russia and must focus on defence, say US officials” – Ukraine is too weak to launch another counteroffensive against Russia this year and should concentrate on defence, U.S. officials have said, the Telegraph reports.
• “Mean Girls has nothing on the malice of academia” – Janice Turner celebrates Jo Phoenix’s tribunal victory over her intolerant, woke employers in the Times.
• “Did German domestic intelligence services collaborate with Correctiv journalists to smear Alternative für Deutschland and incite the current wave of protests ‘against the Right’?” – Eugyppius smells a psy-op.
• “‘Disbelief’ as under-manned Royal Navy seeks to re-deploy officers to diversity and inclusion team” – The Royal Navy is redeploying marines and sailors to become diversity and inclusion officers to enhance the “lived experience” of personnel amid ongoing recruitment challenges in manning its ships, the Telegraph reports.
• “Tory capitulation to the soft-Left orthodoxy has ruined Britain” – Don’t blame Reform: Sunak’s party is unravelling because it succumbed to socialist delusions that were impossible to implement, says the Telegraph‘s Janet Daley.
• “Political correctness is strangling comedy – and with it our British sense of humour” – Today’s sitcoms present a right-on, offence-free world in which many of us simply do not live, says Simon Heffer in the Telegraph.
• “Government statistics body worried about triggering staff over transgender census questions” – The Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggested that staff might not feel “safe” after its methodology for counting transgender people in the census was questioned, the Telegraph reveals.
• “The Right Way to Fight Illiberalism” – Christopher Rufo and Yascha Mounk debate in Bari Weiss’s Free Press.

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