News Round-Up

• “The damage lockdown did to our democracy is finally becoming clear” – We might now be seeing a sort of mass nervous breakdown, resulting in a nihilistic rejection of politics as it was, warns Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
• “Covid vaccine serious adverse reactions far from rare” – A study published last month in Vaccine on the COVID-19 jabs found a rate of serious adverse reactions of 0.24% for the primary series and 0.26% for boosters, approximating to one per 400 people – not rare at all, says Dr. Ralph Lataster on Substack.
• “Dr. Ranj failed to tell BBC bosses about AstraZeneca advert” – BBC Morning Live‘s Dr. Ranj Singh has found himself caught up in a damaging row with the BBC over his failure to make clear his financial links to AstraZeneca, the Mail reports.
• “Moderna wins Covid jab patent dispute over Pfizer and BioNTech” – Moderna finally gets a court to accept its patents were infringed by its Covid vaccine rivals and it is entitled to a share of their profits, reports the FT.
• “You are being nudged” – State-sponsored psychological manipulation is becoming ubiquitous, says Dr. Gary Sidley in the Critic.
• “Tories shouldn’t have ousted Boris Johnson, admits Nadhim Zahawi” – Nadhim Zahawi, the former Chancellor (briefly), has said the Conservatives were wrong to oust Boris Johnson and called him the “most consequential leader since Thatcher”, according to the Telegraph.
• “The case against Israel has just collapsed” – The halving of the Gaza civilian death figures by the UN exposes the lie behind claims of ‘genocide’, says Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
• “For the first time, I see why reasonable people will vote for Donald Trump” – He is deeply flawed, but at least he won’t centre his foreign policy around appeasing the West’s mortal enemies, argues Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
• “Donald Trump’s multiracial populism” – For all the cries of ‘racist’, Trump is attracting more black and Hispanic voters than ever before, says Spiked‘s Tom Slater.
• “Russia and China ‘manipulating U.K. public opinion by promoting pro-Palestinian influencers’” – Senior Government figures fear polarising online narratives about the Israel-Hamas conflict are being spread using fake social media accounts, says the Telegraph. Perhaps, but they’re also being spread by a whole load of real ones.
• “The young children facing antisemitic abuse at school – while their teachers remain silent” – Rising antisemitism in schools is leaving Jewish parents afraid that their children will be targeted in what should be a safe environment, the Telegraph reports.
• “Idiotic Net Zero rules are driving Europe’s carmakers to extinction” – Punishing green targets are turbocharging China’s electric car assault, warns Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
• “Transatlantic air fares to jump under Net Zero fuel rules” – The cost of a return trip to New York is on track to rise by £40 as a result of incoming Net Zero regulations, according to figures from Virgin Atlantic, the Telegraph reports.
• “Who profits exactly from Net Zero?” – Follow the Science or follow the money, quips Tom Ed on Substack as he asks cui bono?
• “Whistleblower ‘forced out’ of Whitehall over gender beliefs” – Whistleblower Eleanor Frances tells the Telegraph she was forced out of the civil service by a “politicised” culture which led to her being marginalised for her gender-critical beliefs.
• “National Trust uses ‘anti-white’ rhetoric, claims Kemi Badenoch” – The National Trust has adopted anti-white phrases such as ‘global majority’, the Minister for Women and Equalities has said, according to the Telegraph.
• “Calling Rishi Sunak a ‘coconut’ should not be a crime” – Woke activists are getting a taste of their own censorious medicine, but that doesn’t make it right to ban ‘hate speech’, argues Inaya Folarin Iman in UnHerd.
• “There’s nothing racist about Anglo-Saxons” – Nick Cohen in the Spectator lambasts a group of academics for abandoning a sound historical term for nakedly political reasons.
• “The agony of sex education” – UnHerd‘s Kathleen Stock argues modern sex education is confused in its aims and typically amounts just to ‘too much information’.

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