News Round-Up

“Over 60,000 people are waiting for cancer checks every month” – Cancer Research U.K. says a lack of specialists in the NHS and problems with capacity are leaving patients waiting for too long, the Telegraph reports.
“Bill Gates wants to build a dystopia” – The multi-billionaire says one thing, and funds another, writes Toby Green in UnHerd.
“China faces ‘complicated and grim’ future as Zero-Covid hits economy” – Premier Li Keqiang warns of job losses as lockdowns cause exports to plunge, the Telegraph reports.
“Entire county can’t find NHS dentist after 2,000 quit in U.K. last year” – The situation has become so bad the NHS has set up a phoneline to help people access emergency dental care, the Mail reports.
“Apple exec quits over working from home row” – The tech giant’s new policy is stricter than those at Meta, Google and Twitter in demanding staff return to the office, and for one executive it was the final straw, the Telegraph reports.
“Starmer’s Beergate woes shows why we need a lockdown amnesty” – “Instead of going on and on about Beergate and Partygate, let’s have a complete lockdown amnesty,” writes Brendon O’Neill in the Spectator. “Let’s pay back all the fines that were issued, forgive all the rule-breakers, and move on,”
“Fourth Covid jab boosts immunity ‘over and above’ third, study finds” – The Mail reports that U.K. researchers, who monitored around 160 Britons in their 50s to 70s who had a fourth dose, found the top-up jab gave a “substantial” boost to antibody and T cell levels, in a new study published in the Lancet, paving the way for the autumn rollout. (Data from Israel show the boost only lasts weeks, however.)
“Huge Glut of Western COVID-19 Antivirals (Molnupiravir & Remdesivir) will Cost Indian Generic Pharma Dearly” – Few Western media discuss the massive accumulating glut of COVID-19 vaccine and therapies around the world, says TrialSite News. “In places like India, the glut is particularly bad, with companies that lined up to partner with the likes of Merck, Gilead, AstraZeneca, and others now face the loss of millions of dollars while the mountain of unsold drugs and vaccines accumulates.”
“Children in lockdown: We never thought of them” – With a measly excuse, ‘Boris’ Johnson refused to rule out another lockdown, having clearly failed to recognise the mounting evidence that shutting down the country for months on end does far more harm than good, writes Michael Curzon in Bournbrook.
“The Coldest April in the Satellite Record over the Pacific Northwest” – You knew it was colder than normal over the Pacific Northwest during April, but the cold was not limited to the surface, says Dr. Cliff Mass on Watts Up With That?
“Feeling around for something human” – Why do Russians support the war against Ukraine? Shura Burtin investigates for Meduza.
“Russia admits it faces economic collapse over Putin’s war” – Russia’s economy has plunged into its worst crisis for almost three decades as the country is battered by Western sanctions, a leaked copy of the Kremlin’s own forecasts shows, according to the Telegraph.
“A free speech crisis in the cradle of the Enlightenment” – In April 2021, the Scottish Parliament passed the Hate Crime Bill, legislation so wide-ranging and so censorious that under it you could even be prosecuted for making a joke in your own home, writes Daniel James Sharp in the Washington Examiner.
“New Zealand’s Maori language obsession is baffling Kiwis” – Those who identify as Maori account for around 17% of New Zealand’s population, but “what the Government appears to have in mind is allowing them not only a 50% share of the tourist map but much else besides: education, health, academe, even the wages of science,” writes David Cohen in the Spectator.
“The desperation of Biden’s Disinformation Board” – There are dangers to using censorship as a political tool, writes Ayaan Hirsi Ali in UnHerd.
“Don’t trust the myths of biology” – Titania McGrath in the Critic is clear that being a woman has absolutely nothing to do with biology.
“What It’s Like Inside Shanghai’s Lockdown” – Watch: Vice News speaks to two residents to learn what they are seeing and experiencing inside the world’s strictest lockdown.

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