News Round-Up

“Daily U.K. Covid admissions drop 18% in a week and deaths fall 6%” – Latest Government dashboard data show there were 16,579 new positive tests reported on Tuesday, the Mail reports.
“Man, 26, died of rare blood clot after having Astra-Zeneca vaccine” – Oli Akram Hoque of Ilford received a dose of the Astra Zeneca vaccine on March 19th last year before suffering “excruciating” headaches, East London Coroners’ Court heard today, according to the Mail.
“GPs to vote on shortening their working day by two and a half hours” – The changes would mean routine hours of 9am to 5pm, with GPs paid extra rates for working outside such times, according to the Telegraph.
“Beijing orders mass testing for 20m residents in race to contain Covid” – Beijing has begun mass coronavirus testing and ordered its nearly 22 million residents to remain in the city, prompting panic buying and fears of a lockdown as strict as the one in Shanghai, the Times reports.
“‘I’m competing with millions of people for food’: What life’s really like in locked-down Shanghai” – China’s strict Zero Covid policy means many of the city’s residents are trapped at home and left fearing infection, detainment or famine, reports the Telegraph.
“Fury as Cambridgeshire County Council’s new £18m HQ lies empty with staff still not back at their desks due to ‘Covid rules’ – as civil servants defy Rees-Mogg’s efforts to end WFH with some Government departments less than half full” – Cambridgeshire County Council’s new headquarters opened last summer at a cost of £18million to taxpayers but its own Covid rules mean many staff members are still working from home, the Mail reports.
“The odds of catching COVID-19 on an aeroplane are slimmer than you think, scientists say” – According to a new study, the risk of contracting the virus on a full flight is just one in 4,300, reports CNN.
“Who Is Risa Hoshino?” – Dr. Hoshino’s exaggerations and claims to authority are emblematic of the epistemic trespass that has dominated the past two years of Covid discourse and policymaking, writes Sarah Beth Burwick on How the Left is Losing Me.
“Vaccine mandates hit Macron… in the Caribbean” – Anger at last year’s Covid restrictions boosted support for Marine Le Pen, writes John Lichfield in UnHerd.
“Covid vaccine victim? Meet Dr. Avindra Nath of the NIH” – Because of Dr. Nath’s utter failure to find a link between the Covid vaccines and vaccine injuries, the injured have been thrown under the bus, says Steve Kirsch, who gives his verdict on whether he is inept or corrupt.
“From ice age to global warming – the climate doom-mongers’ swift about-turn” – Go back half a century and the climatologists, the newspapers and magazines and anyone who could get on radio and TV were all warning us about a different climate crisis: an imminent ice age, writes Ivor Williams in TCW Defending Freedom.
“Study quantifies metal supplies needed to reach EU’s climate neutrality goal” – Meeting the European Union’s Green Deal goal of climate neutrality by 2050 will require 35 times more lithium and seven to 26 times the amount of increasingly scarce rare earth metals compared to Europe’s limited use today, according to a study from Belgian university KU Leuven reported in Watts Up With That?
“Elon Musk slams Twitter’s top lawyer who sobbed after he bought social media network and blasts her for ‘incredibly inappropriate’ censorship of Hunter Biden laptop story” – Mail report that Vijaya Gadde broke down in tears on Monday as she briefed her team via videolink on the future of the company under Musk.
“Twitter has become a liberal authoritarian bullying cesspit where debate goes to die. Elon Musk is the final hope to rescue free speech before the woke mind virus takes over big tech once and for all” – In the tyrannical world of the woke Left, where cancel culture runs rampant, the go-to solution to any perceived threat is to silence the opposition, says Dan Wootton in the Mail.
“The great Musk meltdown” – Nothing terrifies the woke set more than free speech, writes Andrew Doyle in Spiked.
“No, the liberals will not leave Twitter” – The hyper-partisans of the cultural hegemony won’t leave Twitter – they need to access its casual users for their strategy to be successful, argues Eric Joachim Siva-Jothy in Bournbrook.
“U.K. Demands Elon Musk Keeps Twitter ‘Responsible’ by Censoring Content” – A spokesman for U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has demanded that Elon Musk keeps Twitter “responsible” through content censorship, reports Breitbart News.
“Elon Musk vows to defend ‘will of the people’ after EU threatens to ban Twitter” – The billionaire mocks the “extreme reaction from those who fear free speech” following a backlash over his $44bn deal, adding that free speech for him is always within the law, according to the Telegraph.
“Biff, Chip and Kipper book pulped by Oxford publishers in racism row” – Following complaints of Islamophobic content, the children’s book that has been used in primary schools for 30 years has been withdrawn, reports the Telegraph.
“Bristol school founded by Edward Colston to be renamed despite 81% voting against any change” – The unpopular change, which was announced on Tuesday, will be officially made in September, reports GB News.
“Ipswich Museum advertises for curator to ‘decolonise’ collections” – Ipswich Museum bosses are seeking a “social justice champion” who will be paid £35,000 to help “decolonise” its collections and address ‘legacies of imperialism’, reports the Mail.
“Vice-chancellors told to promote free speech or ‘be on the wrong side of history’” – Michelle Donelan, the Universities Minister, says institutions can no longer “shy away” from “the intolerant mob” who are stopping debate, the Telegraph reports.
“Don’t blame Britain” – Obsessing over the sins of empire only serves to hide the flaws of dysfunctional modern states, writes Rakib Ehsan in the Critic.
“The parental revolt against woke indoctrination” – Mums and dads are rising up against the politicisation of education, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
“How the Ukraine war must end” – Putin will never accept defeat, says Professor Edward Luttwak in UnHerd, as he proposes a potentially mutually acceptable compromise based on plebiscites as were used at the end of the Great War.

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