News Round-Up

• “Britain is already too far down the road to serfdom to turn back now” – The Budget won’t fix the economy or the Tories problems. It simply reflects the managerial consensus, remarks Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
• “Crisis, what crisis?” – The Chancellor’s Spring Budget consisted of shameless spin and electioneering soundbites, says Sebastian Milbank in the Critic.
• “The NHS is our national shame. It’s time to abolish it” – Jeremy Hunt’s claim that the NHS is “the biggest reason most of us are proud to be British” was scandalous nonsense, writes James Bartholomew in the Telegraph.
• “The ‘saint tax’ on vaping” – Why is Jeremy Hunt punishing people for giving up smoking? asks Christopher Snowdon in Spiked.
• “Scottish rebellion over North Sea windfall levy” – The Scottish Conservative leader has vowed to vote against the Chancellor’s decision to extend the windfall tax on North Sea oil and gas, reports the Telegraph.
• “Why won’t the Tories talk about their success in education?” – The Conservatives seem determined to ignore one of their few achievements in office, says Stephen Bush in the FT. Why?
• “Activists swap Union flag for Palestinian on U.K. Government building in Edinburgh” – A Palestinian flag has been hoisted above a Government building in Edinburgh by protesters claiming Britain is “complicit in genocide” in Gaza, reports the Herald.
• “The menacing truth about the ‘boycott Israel’ campaigns” – The calls to erase every trace of the Jewish State are deeply sinister, writes Daniel Ben-Ami in Spiked.
• “NHS faces multi-million pound lawsuit over inadequate PPE” – The NHS is facing a multi-million pound lawsuit as nearly 70 healthcare workers suffering from Long Covid claim they were given inadequate PPE, reports the Mail.
• “AstraZeneca to build £450 million vaccine hub in Liverpool in boost for U.K.” – AstraZeneca is to spend £450 million on building a new vaccine factory in Liverpool, a year after its CEO said Rishi Sunak’s policies were discouraging investment in the U.K., according to the Telegraph.
• “‘We’re suing Springer Nature for $250 million in punitive damages for the unethical retraction of our Covid harms paper’” – Someone has to hold academic journals accountable for their unethical retractions of valid scientific papers, writes Steve Kirsch on his Substack. Otherwise, they will not change their behaviour.
• “German patient vaccinated against Covid 217 times” – Doctors report that a 62 year-old man from Germany has been vaccinated 217 times against Covid, according to the BBC.
• “Bizarre hyper-vaccinator from Magdeburg receives 217 Covid jabs over 29 months, finally achieves antibody levels necessary to prevent infection” – A lunatic from Magdeburg, who was vaccinated 217 times, never got Covid. Now we know what it takes to avoid infection, says Eugyppius on Substack.
• “How did Newsnight end up defending a Syrian child rapist?” – Is it possible that the BBC’s broader view on immigration allows its coverage to be skewed? ponders Steerpike in the Spectator.
• “BBC Verify duped by Donald Trump parody account” – On Substack, the Naked Emperor takes aim at BBC Verify’s gullible coverage of obviously fake images on parody account of Trump with black voters.
• “How GB News knocked its rival off the airwaves” – GB News faces bigger battles after TalkTV’s retreat, says James Warrington in the Telegraph.
• “Britain’s worklessness disaster” – Spending on welfare now makes up the second biggest portion of your tax bill, narrowly pipped to the post by our NHS, says Michael Simmons in the Spectator.
• “Police ram out-of-control EV on M62 motorway with faulty brake” – Police were forced to ram an out-of-control electric car after a horrifying fault left the eco-vehicle tearing down the busy M62 without any brakes, reports the Mail.
• “The green movement is stripping away life’s small luxuries, one by one” – The EU is planning to ban hotel shampoo bottles. What a joyless existence we ‘eco-criminals’ are being forced to lead, writes Andy Mayer in the Telegraph.
• “Net Zero climate change broadside” – In a scathing letter to his Scottish MP, published on the Dead Man Talking Substack, Doug Brodie slams climate change policies, dismissing Net Zero initiatives as futile and costly.
• “Cut consultants and diversity schemes to save cash, Hunt to tell councils” – Chancellor Jeremy Hunt tells English councils to cut spending on consultants and diversity schemes, reports the BBC.
• “‘The Church leadership is destroying the CofE I love’” – There are two institutions: the Rev. Dr. Jekyll of parish volunteers and clergy, and the Rev. Mr. Hyde at the top, says Madeline Grant in the Telegraph.
• “‘Why I was wrong about trans’” – Trans isn’t what many of us thought it was, writes Michael Shellenberger on the Public Substack.
• “The trans activist house of cards ought to be collapsing” – Trans activists seem to think no side effect is too severe to halt experimental surgeries on young people, says Kathleen Stock in the Telegraph.
• “J.K. Rowling and the tyranny of preferred pronouns” – It is not ‘misgendering’ to call a man a man – it’s the truth, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Menopause isn’t a disease and is over-medicalised, top experts claim” – Experts say that the menopause has been “hijacked” by commercial interests and sensationalised by celebrity horror stories, according to the Mail.
• “In a bad way: why the BBC’s weird Welsh drama failed” – Michael Sheen’s The Way should have been a triumph – but viewing figures were abject, writes Charlotte Lytton in the Telegraph.
• “FKA Twigs ad campaign was not sexually explicit, watchdog says in about-turn” – A Calvin Klein poster featuring FKA Twigs was not sexually explicit because the musician was “confident and in control”, the advertising watchdog has said after banning the original campaign, according to the Telegraph.
• “Republicans probe GoFundMe and Eventbrite over Government transaction surveillance” – A U.S. House Subcommittee is investigating claims that Government agencies influenced private financial firms to monitor political terms on platforms like Eventbrite and GoFundMe, reports Didi Rankovic in Reclaim The Net.
• “‘F*ck off’” – U.S. politician Marjorie Taylor Greene tells the BBC’s Emily Maitlis to “f*ck off” after she asks her a bad faith question.

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