News Round-Up

• “Now Tory candidate for Manchester Mayor defects to Reform U.K.” – The Tories’ candidate for Manchester Mayor has defected to Reform U.K. in another body blow for Rishi Sunak, reports the Mail.
• “What might the U.S. owe the world for COVID-19?” – A US-funded laboratory origin of COVID-19 would certainly constitute the most significant case of governmental gross negligence in history. The people of the world deserve transparency, writes Jeffrey D. Sachs in Common Dreams.
• “Is there a mortality data set by mRNA vaccine exposure we can trust?” – To understand excess mortality rates in affluent countries, you need to ask two questions, say Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan. Do the data exist and, if so, what is their quality?
• “DNA contamination in Covid vaccines does get into human cells, new evidence shows” – Regulators and fact checkers claim that plasmid DNA contamination in the mRNA Covid vaccines can’t change your genomic DNA, but new evidence suggests that it actually can, writes Rebekah Barnett on Substack.
• “Nah, you are safe in the MHRA’s hands” – Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson urge signing a petition for parliamentary debate on the MHRA’s handling of adverse reactions to Covid vaccines.
• “Furlough didn’t save millions of jobs. Its true costs are only now becoming clear” – Sunak was right to worry about his £70 billion furlough scheme. It has led to a welfare crisis, not a jobs recovery, writes Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
• “Mental health culture has gone too far, says Mel Stride” – The Work and Pensions Secretary warns that Britain’s approach to mental health is in danger of having “gone too far” and the “normal anxieties of life” are being labelled as an illness, reports the Telegraph.
• “Terrifying threat of ‘underpopulation’ is laid bare” – Experts say that global fertility rates have hit an historic tipping point and are unlikely to recover, according to the Mail.
• “Downing Street admits U.K. is in the grip of a ‘migration emergency’” – Downing Street admits the U.K. is in the grip of a ‘migration emergency’, but refuse to force through its Rwanda deportation flights law before Easter, reports the Mail.
• “The Bank of England has committed its latest misstep” – If monetary policy remains too tight, the danger is a pyrrhic victory over inflation, warns Dr. Gerard Lyons in CapX.
• “Scotland’s new Hate Crime Act is fraught with danger” – The SNP’s new hate crime law covers anything said anywhere – even in your own home, warns Lucy Hunter Blackburn in the Spectator.
• “Adam Smith Institute report” – The father of modern economics would likely be turning in his grave at the notion of taxing education, says Mr. Chips on Substack.
• “National Trust bosses accused of ‘abuse of power’” – A new report accuses the National Trust of an “abuse of power and a subversion of democracy” over changes to voting at its annual meeting, according to the Telegraph.
• “Channel Four says ‘no evidence’ bosses knew of Russell Brand accusations” – Channel Four has found “no evidence” that staff knew about the accusations made by four women against Russell Brand in a Dispatches documentary prior to it being aired in September, reports the Mail.
• “Jeff Zucker’s Fleet Street misadventure” – The former CNN and NBC boss Jeff Zucker wants a new media empire. Is that even possible in 2024? asks Michael Wolff in Intelligencer.
• “Biden administration announces rule aimed at expanding electric vehicles” – Joe Biden has announced new rules that will see as many as half of all cars sold in America run on electricity by 2030, according to the NY Times.
• “Furious Lee Anderson slams Nike for ‘woke’ St. George’s Cross on new England kits” – England’s new European Championship football kit has sparked a major row over a multicoloured St. George’s Cross, reports GB News.
• “Scottish Parliament staff banned from wearing rainbow lanyard” – Scottish Parliament staff are no longer allowed to wear rainbow lanyards – or other accessories that show support for social movements – at Holyrood, according to the BBC.
• “Pheasants are ‘queer’, museum tells visitors in LGBT exhibition” – Pheasants are “queer”, according to an LGBT history guide for visitors of Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, reports the Telegraph.
• “Western civilisation is being driven to oblivion by the false prophets of ‘diversity’” – The woke revolutionaries reject real equality in favour of a permanent revolution against fairness and merit, says Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
• “Ben & Jerry’s vows to continue social justice campaigns under new ownership” – Ben & Jerry’s has vowed to continue with its controversial social activism under new ownership, as parent company Unilever prepares to spin off the ice cream business, reports the Telegraph.
• “Ben & Jerry’s activist campaigning risks melting Unilever’s ice cream dreams” – The Telegraph’s Ben Marlow reacts to news that Unilever has decided to hive off its ice cream operations.
• “Why the West won the battle of civilisations” – In Australia, Konstantin Kisin gives the Centre for Independent Studies his politically non-binary opinions on culture, politics and comedy.
• “What happened at the Supreme Court Monday, and what it means for Berenson v. Biden – and free speech” – On Substack, Alex Berenson provides an update on two crucial Supreme Court cases concerning free speech, and discusses how they might impact his upcoming lawsuit.
• “Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain implant enables man to play online chess with his mind” – A paralysed 29 year-old man is believed to be the first human patient to benefit from ground-breaking neuroscience technology being trialled by Elon Musk’s Neuralink, reports the Telegraph.
• “Good news!” – Penny Mordaunt confirms that on Thursday, April 18th, there will be a debate on the COVID-19 pandemic response and trends in excess deaths in the main House of Commons chamber.

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