- “Leading universities keep summer exams online because of Covid ‘dangers’” – Many exams are being taken at home with the aid of revision materials, despite Government campus coronavirus guidance being withdrawn in April, the Telegraph reports.
- “Jacinta Adern has tested positive to COVID-19” – The New Zealand Prime Minister announced she’d been struck down with the virus on Saturday, after her fiancé Clarke Gayford and daughter Neve both already tested positive, the Mail reports.
- “FDA: Americans Should Treat COVID-19 Like the Flu” – Several top Food and Drug Administration officials, including Commissioner Robert Califf, admitted that Americans will now have to accept COVID-19 as another respiratory virus, comparing it to influenza, the Epoch Times reports.
- “A WHO pandemic pact would leave the world at China’s mercy” – Lessons have still not been learned, so why should we trust the WHO in a future pandemic, asks Matt Ridley in the Telegraph.
- “Covid outbreak a ‘great disaster’ for North Korea, says Kim Jong-un” – Two days after confirming its first cases of Covid, the Government said 21 people had died, the Telegraph reports.
- “China’s leader Xi Jinping is suffering from brain aneurysm: reports” – Chinese leader Xi Jinping won’t have surgery to treat a rumoured brain aneurysm, reports in China have claimed. Social media posts alleging Xi’s poor health were removed, according to the Mail.
- “The Unspeakable Podcast: Is Public Health Messaging Designed For Dummies?” – Dr. Lucy McBride calls for an end to Covid catastrophising.
- “India bans wheat exports to deepen global food crisis” – The world’s second-largest producer of wheat has announced a ban amid shortage caused by war in Ukraine, the Telegraph reports.
- “Putin warns Finland ‘made mistake’, Lavrov says ‘total hybrid war’ on” – Vladimir Putin told the President of Finland he has “made a mistake” by joining NATO. Foreign Minister Lavrov slammed the West’s “total hybrid war” on Russia, the Mail reports.
- “University bans sonnets as ‘products of white western culture’” – The University of Salford’s attempt to “decolonise” its creative writing course has been branded “patronising” and “outrageous”, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘I questioned why children were being encouraged to transition – and it cost me my dream career’” – James Esses had volunteered at Childline for five years but that counted for nothing when he shared concerns over their gender ideology, writes Charlotte Lytton in the Telegraph.
- “Universities’ racial equality scheme branded ‘egregious wokery’” – Advance HE, which charges universities to take part in a racial equality scheme, is said to be responsible for cultural changes on campuses, the Telegraph reports.
- “Joe Biden’s new Ministry of Truth puts the U.S. on the fast track to an Orwellian nightmare” – Kneejerk state meddling could have a chilling impact on freedom of expression in the land of the free, writes Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “Go organic and the poorest will suffer the consequences” – Dominic Lawson in the Times notes that Prince Charles, who opposes genetic modification of food, had to announce a bill permitting precisely that.
- “‘Progressives’ would wreck Tiger Head’s school” – Peter Hitchens in the Mail says next weekend millions of people will have the chance to see Katharine Burbalsingh’s remarkable school on television for themselves.
- “Council is accused of promoting ‘damaging trans ideology in schools’” – Council chiefs faced criticism over their trans policy last night amid concern about the number of referrals to the only NHS gender service for children, the Mail reports.
- “A key error during Covid was that two irrational extremes prevented us from having a sensible conversation about vaccinating the right people, based on good data” – Dr. Vinay Prasad traces a middle path on Twitter.
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By Will Jones / 15 May 2022 • 01.39
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