News Round-Up

• “Health Secretary urged to release data that ‘may link Covid vaccine to excess deaths’” – MPs and peers have accused the Health Secretary of withholding data that could link the Covid vaccine to excess deaths, and criticised a “wall of silence” on the topic, the Telegraph reports.
• “Seven MPs request comprehensive data transparency from the U.K. ONS” – The MP want the ONS to produce a detailed time-series cohort analysis like it should have done three years ago, says Steve Kirsch on Substack. The request was validated by Professors Norman Fenton and Carl Heneghan, he adds.
• “Ministers failed to consider long-term pain of lockdown, say scientists” – The Government did not pay sufficient attention to the long-term collateral damage of lockdowns, a majority of British scientists surveyed believe, according to the Telegraph.
• “Sex is binary, say majority of scientists polled” – Sex is binary, according to the majority of British scientists in the same poll.
• “Hancock waits for ruling on libel fight with MP” – Matt Hancock is waiting for a judge’s ruling on whether fellow MP Andrew Bridgen’s claim the former Health Secretary had libellously labelled him as antisemitic should be thrown out, the BBC reports.
• “The long campaign to brand Britain Islamophobic has distorted politics” – A drive to ban criticism of Islam or Muslims is fuelling a rise in extremism and endangers the fabric of British society, argues Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
• “This imam had lived in France since he was 12. But after he called the French flag ‘satanic’, he was arrested and deported back to Tunisia within eight hours” – Imam Mahjoub Mahjoubi told the Mail it would never happen in Britain.
• “If Galloway’s triumph doesn’t wake elite from slumbers, what will?” – “The reality is the people of Rochdale didn’t reject the politics of hate,” writes Dan Hodges in the Mail. “They seized it hungrily.”
• “The World Court Prejudges the Victim of Mass Atrocities but Ignores the Perpetrators” – Israeli soldiers carry the rules of law in their backpacks, whereas Hamas fighters are not subject to any comparable normative restraints, says Ramesh Thakur in the Epoch Times.
• “Judge who spared protesters jail for celebrating Hamas attack accused of breaking code of conduct” – Telling students about jailing a racist police officer possibly violated rules on not discussing cases, experts say, according to the Telegraph.
• “Revolving doors in the nine circles of hell” – Laura Dodsworth in the Free Mind on Sir Patrick Vallance and General Sir Nick Carter joining the Tony Blair Institute.
• “Shocking double standard of support for Ukraine and Israel” – Why don’t people such as Biden want Israel to win just as much as they want Ukraine to win, asks Douglas Murray in the New York Post.
• “A Confected Crisis” – Valid concerns about anti-Muslim bigotry should not be used as an excuse to appease Islamist fanatics, argues Oscar Clarke in Quillette.
• “Lifesaving medical equipment bought during Covid set to be destroyed” – MPs and Peers last night branded the scale of waste “astonishing” after it was revealed the Government is set to destroy unused medical equipment bought during the pandemic, the Mail reports.
• “Boiler tax set to be scrapped” – The Energy Secretary is set to ditch the policy branded a form of “coercion” and blamed for pushing up prices in the latest Net Zero u-turn, the Telegraph reports.
• “Fire fears force recall of 2,000 British electric buses” – Almost 2,000 electric buses built in the U.K. but powered by batteries made in China worth in the region of £800m have been recalled over fears their heating and air con units could catch fire, the Mail reports.
• “Women’s equality has gone too far, say half of Britons” – About half of Britons believe that society has gone too far in promoting women’s equality and that men are now discriminated against, a survey suggests, reported in the Telegraph.
• “The Conservatives should not cancel Christians” – Tim Dieppe writes in the Critic on Cllr King Lawal finally being cleared by Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ) following a six-month investigation after he tweeted that “pride is a sin”.
• “CofE to hire ‘deconstructing whiteness’ officer” – The Church of England is accused of “drinking the critical race Kool Aid” after it advertised for a “deconstructing whiteness” officer for its “racial justice unit”, the Telegraph reports.
• “Reports should call trans killer Scarlet Blake a man” – Suella Braverman writes in the Mail that “if journalists fail to report the truth on basic matters like biology then we are on a slippery slope to a world of doublespeak, misinformation and deception”.
• “The BBC is reprimanding a journalist – for the crime of telling the truth” – Justin Webb made an indisputable statement of fact about trans women, so why is he in trouble for it, asks the Telegraph‘s Michael Deacon.
• “Argentina shows what might have been… if only Liz Truss had stuck to her pro-market principles” – Javier Milei is smeared as a buffoon, but his reforms are working, according to Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph, “and he gets that you can’t cut tax without also cutting spending”.
• “Looking Back at the ‘Unmarked Graves’ Social Panic of 2021” – Tom Flanagan and Chris Champion in Quillette on a new book that tries to explain how millions of Canadians became convinced that the bodies of 215 ‘missing’ Indigenous children had been discovered in British Columbia.
• “Radio 4 is not too woke, boss insists as he defends shake-up” – Mohit Bakaya has insisted that BBC Radio 4 is not too woke but instead serves as a mirror to a changing Britain, according to the Mail.

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