News Round-Up

• “The Covid Inquiry must remember that the victims are not only the ones who died from it” – It is imperative that Lady Hallett ask hard questions of the people who did this to us, and here are six questions for her to start with, writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
• “Pathologist Dr. Ryan Cole on the mystery blood clots” – Watch Steve Kirsch speak to the pathologist, who thinks the strange clots found by embalmers are due to the vaccine, in particular the later doses.
• “Fauci Said Great Barrington Declaration Reminded Him of AIDS Denialism” – Dr. Anthony Fauci tried linking a strategy to avoid lockdowns to scientists who questioned whether HIV causes AIDS, the Epoch Times reports.
• “Wilko U-turns after Mirror reveals 20,000 staff were told to work with Covid” – Over 20,000 employees at Wilko were sent a memo stating they should go to work if they have Covid but are asymptomatic, leaving staff and the public concerned for their welfare, reports the Mirror.
• “Coronavirus: The Hong Kong Experience” – The Swiss Doctor on how Hong Kong has turned from Zero Covid Eldorado to Covid death trap.
• “Renewable energy schemes take money from the poor and give it to the rich” – The focus now has to be on achieving energy security and reducing prices, and achieving both will mean re-evaluating arbitrary Net Zero targets, argues Nigel Farage in the Telegraph.
• “Last chance to save fracking before wells are capped, warns Cuadrilla” – The energy pioneer warns it will be forced to start capping wells within days without Government intervention, the Telegraph reports.
• “The BBC’s fake news about fracking” – This promising energy source was strangled at birth by green misinformation, writes Andrew Orlowski in Spiked.
• “Frack for freedom! Britain has the resources to get off Russian gas” – The crisis in Ukraine has highlighted the dangers of over-reliance on Russia, and the advantages of national self-sufficiency in energy supplies, writes John Longworth in CapX.
• “Petrol prices could hit £2.40 a litre and diesel £3, MPs are warned” – Speaking to Parliament’s Treasury Committee yesterday, Dr Amrita Sen, Director of Research at Energy Aspects, petrol prices could rise to around £2.40 a litre, the Mail reports.
• “Boris Johnson says it is ‘time to make big new bets on nuclear power’” – Boris Johnson said the U.K. must make “big new bets” on developing new nuclear power stations to end the nation’s “addiction” to Russian oil and gas, the Mail reports – but no mention of fracking.
• “Net Zero rules on the chopping block to boost North Sea oil production” – Proposals would allow drilling projects to go ahead if needed for national security, reports the Telegraph.
• “Britain must grow its own food and produce more crops to protect itself from shortage and price rises caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, warns Tory MP” – Daniel Kawczynski said the country must produce more of its own crops to insulate itself from the damage caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Mail reports.
• “Texas school sparks fury with lesson segregating kids by hair colour” – A Texas school district has apologised after a class in January was given a dramatic demonstration of segregation, which parents said left their children unsettled and unable to sleep, the Mail reports.
• “‘Cancelled’, the 1804 train with supposed links to slavery” – National Museum Wales gives the first steam-powered locomotive an “absurd” new context as part of “decolonisation” of its collection, reports the Telegraph.
• “University ‘acting like the Soviet Union’ as it cancels race commission chairman” – Dr. Tony Sewell’s honorary degree from Nottingham University has been withdrawn following his landmark report on racial disparity in Britain that upset the race relations industry, reports the Telegraph.
• “Comedy Icon John Cleese Has Mic Taken for Mocking Reparations” – British comedy icon John Cleese had his mic taken at an event in Austin, Texas, after pointing out that British people were once slaves, reports Breitbart News.
• “Daniil Medvedev told he will be banned from Wimbledon unless he denounces Vladimir Putin” – Russia and Belarus have already been thrown out of the Davis Cup and Fed Cup, but individual players have, thus far, been free to continue, reports the Telegraph.
• “Putin’s Actions in Ukraine are Vile, But Russia was Sorely Provoked by NATO” – Ramesh Thakur at the Toda Peace Institute argues that “failure to course correct will feed the continued disregard by the leading Western powers of other major powers’ legitimate security interests” – in particular, paving the way “for yet another, possibly even more dangerous, armed conflict with China”.
• “Putin’s Russia is built to survive a prolonged economic siege, so don’t count on regime change” – Modern Monetary Theory might just work in low debt Russia, argues Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
• “Russia-Ukraine latest: Nuclear war ‘could only be a few steps away’” – Former military chief Air Marshal Edward Stringer said Russian President Vladimir Putin sanctioning the deployment of nuclear weapons was “in the realms of possibility” and “only a few steps away”, reports the Mail.
• “Ukraine war: Zelensky says Ukraine must accept it won’t join NATO” – Volodymyr Zelensky, speaking on the 20th day of Russia’s invasion, said that “it is a truth and must be acknowledged” that there is no path open for Ukraine to join NATO, reports the Mail.
• “The experience of the last six weeks in (masked) Scotland vs (unmasked) England should be enough on its own to show Nicola Sturgeon that mask mandates have little or no impact on infection trends” – David Paton is unimpressed with the First Minister’s decision not to lift the mask mandate.

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