News Round-Up

• “Lockdown’s impact on children is only beginning” – Children who started school in the early days of the pandemic will have worse exam results well into the next decade, according to a major new study highlighted by Michael Simmons in the Spectator.
• “Pupils in England ‘facing worst exam results in decades’ after Covid closures” – Children in England could face the worst exam results in decades and a lifetime of lower earnings, according to research that blames failures to tackle the academic and social legacies of school closures during Covid, the Guardian reports.
• “Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonous” – The Chinese Government froze meaningful efforts to trace COVID-19’s origins, despite publicly declaring support for an open scientific inquiry, an AP investigation finds.
• “The WHO pandemic Treaty” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson continue to have their concerns about the proposed IHR amendments.
• “Now We Are Supposed to Cheer Government Surveillance?” – Brownstone’s Jeffrey Tucker is still reeling from learning the New York Times is all-in on the immediate establishment of the surveillance state and universal censorship by the “awesome” Deep State.
• “I’m a GP – and here’s why I sign a hundred people off work a month” – In the Mail, Dr. Dean Eggitt admits the truth: doctors waving through requests for ‘fit notes’ for patients they have not seen has been routine practice for years.
• “Cancer concerns” – HART looks at the reasons that people are getting worried about cancer risk from Covid vaccines.
• “This strong evidence of the link between Covid vaccines and cancer can no longer be ignored” – Oncologist Professor Angus Dalgleish sets out his concerns in TCW.
• “Another brave head above the Covid parapet – what Graham Stringer told the House” – TCW‘s Kathy Gyngell with excerpts from the Labour MP’s speech during last week’s Commons debate on excess deaths.
• “How the ‘Bioterrorism’ Era Began” – On Substack, Dr. Meryl Nass delves into the origins of the biosecurity state.
• “‘You’re baby killers’: The pro-Palestine university protest spilling out into the streets of New York” – At Columbia, months of demonstrations against war in Gaza appear to be reaching a crescendo, reports the Telegraph.
• “Troopers in helmets arrest Palestine protesters in latest college demo” – Police have arrested several demonstrators, reports the Mail.
• “A howl of rage against civilisation” – The orgy of bigotry at Columbia University heaps shame on America, says Spiked‘s Brendan O’Neill.
• “Meet the new Left, who think Hamas are good and that Swastikas are woke” – The refusal to view political struggles as anything beyond ‘good’ and ‘evil’ has led progressives down a dark path, says Ryan Zickgraf in the Telegraph.
• “Why can’t the police admit these are hate marches?” – The ‘openly Jewish’ scandal shames the Metropolitan Police, says Spiked‘s Lauren Smith.
• “Tommy Robinson and the truth about two-tier policing” – In the Spectator, Ian Acheson looks at the hole the police have dug for themselves in their policing of pro-Palestinian marches.
• “The Cold Truth of the Warming Climate” – On Freedom Research, Magnus Salm offers a few thoughts on watching Climate: The Movie.
• “Democrats abandon Tesla as Musk turns Right-wing influencer” – U.S. Democrats are turning their backs on Tesla despite its green credentials as Elon Musk gains traction as a Right-wing influencer, according to the Telegraph, with Republicans buying the cars outnumbering Democrats by two-to-one.
• “How Beijing buried Western industry under a wave of cheap electric cars” – Chinese dominance leaves the U.S. and Europe trailing in the wake of its EV landgrab, says the Telegraph‘s Christopher Jasper.
• “National Grid Resorts to Propaganda” – The National Grid is paying for shameless propaganda in the Guardian, says David Turver on Substack.
• “Sadiq Khan: I would pay if I saw somebody shoplifting nappies” – Mayor of London says seeing tags on baby products in response to people stealing them “upsets” him, the Telegraph reports.
• “The blood-soaked wars in jails between Muslim and white gangs” – The Mail reports on the tribal violence endemic in Britain’s prisons.
• “On the spies who tell us stories, the myth of the secret world, and the well-timed espionage scandals presently rocking Alternative für Deutschland” – Eugyppius discusses the convenient timing of the two espionage scandals have rocked Alternative für Deutschland in as many months.
• “We Exposed Censorship By Brazil’s Supreme Court, And Now President Lula Is Persecuting Me” – On Public, Michael Shellenberger reports that Brazil’s Attorney General is seeking to entirely shut down X.
• “We are the West’s last generation before the new Dark Age begins” – There is no future for our civilisation if universities’ totalitarian indoctrination of the young continues, argues Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
• “I’m ashamed of Oxford again” – On Substack, Paul Sutton expresses his dismay that last weekend, Oxford’s Head of Equality and Diversity tweeted his delight when the Belgian police kettled the National Conservatism conference.
• “Taylor Swift is the tortured voice of millennials” – Taylor Swift’s new album The Tortured Poets Department is filled with bitterness and sadness at where her life has ended up – which the Spectator‘s Teresa Mull puts down to her generation’s abandonment of traditional values.
• “Anti-colonialism and the distortion of history” – Giles Udy identifies yet another historical canard in the National Trust’s woke pseudo-history in the Spectator.
• “Katherine Maher’s Colour Revolution” – The NPR boss is a symbol of regime change at home and abroad, argues Christopher Rufo in City Journal.
• “Gillian Keegan: I’ll stop saying trans women are women” – The Education Secretary’s reverse ferret following the Cass Review is reported in the Telegraph.
• “Parents’ fury after trans supply teacher explained their gender identity to seven-year-old pupils and told them ‘I’m so gorgeous because I’ve put makeup on and had a shave”” – Year 2 pupils at Bitterne Church of England Primary School in Southampton were left “confused” when the teacher – wearing women’s clothing – explained his gender identity to them, reports the Mail.
• “Outraged dad of female player speaks out after women’s football team with five trans players thumps rival side again: ‘I’m absolutely furious’” – The father of a female football player was left “absolutely furious” after a women’s team consisting of five transgender players secured another big win, the Mail reports.
• “ITV adds ‘discriminatory language’ warning to Terry and June” – ITV has added a “discriminatory language” warning to rerun episodes of the classic 80s sitcom Terry and June, according to the Mail.
• “France accused of ‘irresponsible’ actions after Channel migrants die” – MPs condemn the actions of French police for allowing a flimsy dinghy crammed with 112 people to continue crossing to the U.K, even after several had been crushed to death, the Telegraph reports.
• “U.K. can’t return Channel migrants to France because of Brexit, Cameron suggests” – David Cameron has suggested that a migrant returns agreement to help stop people making the perilous journey across the Channel is “simply not possible” because of Brexit, according to the Telegraph.
• “Moses at the New York pro-Hamas encampment plays Let my People Go, The Game Show” – On X, watch the video of the ‘host’ asking demonstrators: “Should Hamas release the hostages?”

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