News Round-Up

News Round-Up

“School issues detentions for pupils who fail to wear masks” – Kensington Aldridge Academy in west London has written to parents to say it is “reintroducing short detentions for failing to wear masks”.
“Boris should seize his Thatcher moment to take on the selfish unions ruining our schools” – The trade unionists’ mindless demands are making a full return of children to the classroom impossible, writes Juliet Samuel in the Telegraph.
“‘Trapped’ in Hong Kong: zero-Covid misery casts shadow over financial hub’s future” – Notoriously strict rules threaten the region’s ability to retain talent, reports the Telegraph.
“Novak Djokovic ‘free to leave at any time’ says Canberra as two other tennis players placed under investigation” – The World No. 1 spent a second day in immigration detention in Australia on Friday as his lawyers battled to secure his release, the Telegraph reports.
“I stand with Novak Djokovic” – Is anyone else alarmed by the widespread glee at the way Novak Djokovic has been treated by the Aussies, asks Emily Hill in the Speccie.
“Rod Liddle: ‘We’re being led by scientists, but not by science’” – The journalist speaks to Dan Wootton on GB News on the information scientists have provided on Omicron.
“Judge Gives FDA Just Over Eight Months to Produce Pfizer’s Safety Data” – A federal judge on Thursday ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to produce, at a rate of 55,000 pages per month, the documents it relied on to license the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, reports the Epoch Times. The FDA had asked for 75 years.
“Why are northern European (except for Sweden) all cause deaths up in 2021 vs 2020?” – Covid deaths are way down, but overall deaths are up considerably. This is a puzzle that warrants attention, writes El Gato Malo on his Substack page.
“Covidianism and the frightened crowd (Part II) ” – Covidianism is grounded in organised, government-led credentialism and scientism, writes Alexander Adams in Bournbrook.
“Colston Four case could be reviewed to avoid setting a dangerous legal precedent” – Court of Appeal may be asked whether the law was applied correctly after protesters who toppled sculpture were cleared, the Telegraph reports.
“The case for the ‘Colston Four’ was not based on facts, but on political feelings” – If juries become auxiliaries of the sort of extremist politics that loves making trouble, they will no longer be pillars of our liberties, argues Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
“The climate scaremongers: Extreme weather, 1961 style” – Paul Homewood in TCW looks back to the past and finds weather no less extreme than today.
“Deliver us from Carrie” – Timothy Bradshaw in TCW calls on the henpecked PM to “drop his lunatic zero carbon axiom inflicting penury on non-wealthy people”.
“Duke of Cambridge looking for ‘women-led solutions’ to save the planet as 2022 Earthshot Prize opens” – Prince William aims to find ‘wild card ideas’ to “repair and protect the environment”, with £1m prize offered, now apparently based on positive discrimination so the winner can really feel they didn’t deserve it.
“I refuse to go quietly into the night” – Anti-extremism campaigner and radio host Maajid Nawaz has been axed by LBC, apparently over his criticism of Covid vaccines.

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