News Round-Up

• “WHO advice treated as gospel and they got it wrong, says Braverman” – The former Home Secretary writes in the Telegraph that sceptics were “cast out” during COVID-19 and that Britain needs to make better decisions in protecting freedoms.
• “Four lessons from COVID-19 that should have put us on high alert about China” – Laura Dodsworth reviews how China showed it can’t be trusted in the pandemic.
• “We will never surrender powers to the World Health Organisation” – In the Telegraph, Esther McVey claims “no one is going to tell us how to take care of our citizens, or force us to impose any particular national response in future crises”, yet pledges support for the pandemic treaty and IHR amendments. Has she read them?
• “‘Misinformation’ specialist apologises for her Covid-related misinformation and criticism of other doctors” – The founder of the “independent research group MisinformationKills” is now apologising to several doctors who are on the leading edge of treating Covid and Covid vaccine injuries, says Sharyl Attkisson.
• “Is the censorship of research questioning the Covid vaccines being relaxed?” – Norman Fenton and Martin Neil are pleased to report that their review paper on flawed vaccine studies is now on the preprint server MedRxiv (pronounced ‘Med Archive’).
• “Claire Coutinho: Labour’s dangerous Net Zero plans leave U.K. at China’s mercy” – The Energy Secretary says Labour’s “unfeasible” 2030 target would leave Britain over-reliant on Chinese-made resources, according to the Telegraph.
• “How smart meters failed Britain” – The botched Net Zero rollout of smart meters is set to cost £13.5bn and will penalise Britons with bloated pricing, says the Telegraph‘s Noah Eastwood.
• “E-bike bursts into flames outside Buckingham Palace as firefighters are called” – An electric-powered tricycle burst into flames while parked outside Buckingham Palace, reports the Independent.
• “Revealed: the London council raking in £1m a month from a single LTN” – Previously unseen figures show Hammersmith and Fulham has made nine times the average in fines from its low traffic neighbourhood scheme, according to the Telegraph.
• “Why climate ideology is slowly dying, and why that is probably little comfort” – The ambassadors of equality and humanitarianism have never been so eager to tell us about all the things in the world that are more important than climate change, says Eugyppius, which he takes as further evidence that “climatism, as an ideological system, is in a state of terminal decay”.
• “Disciplinary action for ONS female employees if they object to trans colleagues using their lavatories” – Women working for the Office for National Statistics could face disciplinary action if they object to male-born colleagues using single-sex lavatories and changing rooms, documents leaked to the Sunday Telegraph reveal.
• “How Scotland became an Orwellian nightmare” – Humza Yousaf’s new law is being slammed as a state-sponsored assault on free speech with alleged incidents going on record even with no evidence, says the Telegraph.
• “Jonathan Haidt on The Anxious Generation” – On Persusasion, Yascha Mounk and Jonathan Haidt discuss the end of the play-based childhood and the rise of the phone-based childhood.
• “Arresting the fertility crisis” – Britain needs more babies, and it is far from alone, says Miriam Cates in the Critic.
• “The Democratic party is now indisputably woke” – The passing of Joe Lieberman underlines just how far his former Democratic colleague Joe Biden has fallen, argues Joel Kotkin in the Telegraph.
• “Independent school heads warn of North-South divide in education if Labour launches VAT levy on fees” – Independent school heads have warned of a North-South divide in education if a Labour Government presses ahead with its controversial VAT levy on fees, with fears that many schools in the North and Midlands could close.
• “Batley, blasphemy and the price of cowardice” – Three years on, we need a reckoning with Islamic zealotry, says Spiked‘s Tom Slater.
• “Oxford University in ‘woke’ row as portrait of duke with black boy is taken down” – A portrait of an 18th-century duke that was on show at Oxford’s Oriel College has been removed amid claims it was feared students would be offended by the depiction of a black servant in the background, the Telegraph reports.
• “Tories to hold fewer than 100 seats to Labour’s 468, says poll” – Desperate Conservatives cannot see a path to victory as an MRP survey of 15,000 people suggests even Rishi Sunak’s seat is at risk, reports the Times. Should have cut immigration, just like you repeatedly promised…
• “Against all the odds, Reform U.K. has turned politics on its head. And it’s just the start” – In the Telegraph, Isabel Oakeshott says the party led by her partner, Richard Tice, “has not allowed a shoe-string budget to limit its ambition”.
• “Labour MPs refuse to use election leaflets carrying the Union Flag – claiming its ‘colours are associated with the National Front’ and will put off black and Asian voters” – Labour campaigners are refusing to hand out election leaflets bearing the Union flag for fear that its colours are too closely associated with far Right groups such as the National Front, according to some of the party’s own MPs, the Mail reports.
• “Labour MP honoured extremist imam for his work in the community” – A newly promoted Labour MP repeatedly appeared with a radical Muslim preacher and conferred awards on him and his mosque despite a High Court judge labelling him an “extremist”, the Telegraph reports.
• “Protesters surround police van after terror suspect arrested at pro-Gaza march in London” – Pro-Palestine protesters surrounded a police van “to prevent it leaving” after a man was arrested on suspicion of a terrorism-related offence, reports the Telegraph.
• “Stabbed Iranian journalist’s interview with Netanyahu made him ‘a target for wrath’” – Pouria Zeraati, who hosts a show on the anti-regime network Iran International, is recovering in hospital after the attack by two people, says the Telegraph.
• “When the Met Police refuse to arrest Hamas supporters with a swastika sign today in London one officer told a girl that swastikas disturbing public order ‘depends on context’” – “If you’re holding a sign with a swastika at an anti-Israel march — this is blatantly antisemitic. Come on Met Police… this is pathetic,” says Emily Schrader on X – watch the video.

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