News Round-Up

• “U.K. economy has already ground to a halt and is ‘knocking on the door’ of recession with Britons facing return of Stagflation” – A survey has found that private sector growth slumped this month as the cost-of-living crisis began to hit Britons’ spending ability, reports the Mail.
• “The Met’s outrageous handling of partygate undermines our entire legal system” – It is absurd that the fate of political leaders should hinge on unreasoned and unexamined opinions of police officers, writes Geoffrey Robertson in the Telegraph.
• “Andrew Bailey is floundering in the face of soaring inflation” – Andrew Bailey’s bizarre denial that printing money during the pandemic was among the causes of rising prices just makes him look silly, says Matthew Lynn in the Spectator.
• “PANDA: Open Science LIVE” – PANDA presents Nick Hudson live in London, in conversation with Jeffrey Peel. Last tickets still available for the event on Thursday.
• “This bizarre story shows that WFH mania is now out of control” – Now that even the police are allowed to it, who will be next to join the ‘working from home’ craze, asks Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “WEF back, learned nothing” – The WEF is committed to a totalising world view, so every problem will be solved by more globalisation, more migration, more universal regulation, more destruction of tradition, writes Alexander Adams in Bournbrook.
• “Airbnb to quit China as lockdowns restrict tourism” – Stays in China made up only 1% of Airbnb’s revenue for the last few years, a source said, reports BBC News.
• “The WHO Treaty Is Tied to a Global Digital Passport and ID System” – The thrust of every one of the changes is toward increased powers and centralised powers delegated to the WHO and away from member states, writes Aaron Kheriaty at Brownstone.
• “When 800 Mainstream U.S. Scientists Warned Against Lockdowns” – Back then, hundreds of professors associated with Yale University organised a letter with signatures to send to the White House. The letter was dated March 2nd 2020, writes Edward Stringham at Brownstone.
• “Mike Yeadon on the Covid lies, Part 4: It was mad to make the vaccines” – Kathy Gyngell in TCW Defending Freedom relates Dr. Mike Yeadon telling James Delingpole that rushing out novel vaccines based on a toxic part of the virus was madness.
• “Philippines Gov. Terminates National Ivermectin Study: Nail in the Ivermectin Coffin as a COVID-19 Treatment in Southeast Asian Nation” – Purportedly due to a confluence of forces, from delays to the most recent trial results as well as the availability of branded pharmaceutical antivirals such as Merck’s Molnupiravir, the possibility of a low-cost alternative therapy for SARS-CoV-2 in the Philippines at this point is history, says TrialSite News.
• “There’s never been a better time to ditch the Net Zero agenda” – The cost of living crisis is confronting Westminster elites with the stark reality of some of the dubious policy choices they’ve recently made, writes Annabel Denham in the Spectator.
• “George Soros warns Ukraine conflict risks sparking Third World War” – The billionaire says Germany has a “heavy price to pay” for its economic ties to Russia, the Telegraph reports.
• “Black history lessons to be compulsory for all police” – Don’t be afraid of being labelled as ‘woke’, officers told, as a new action plan is launched to tackle racism, reports the Telegraph.
• “James Haskell: ‘People talk about my toxic masculinity – what about toxic femininity?’” – Haskell tells Telegraph Sport about his cancel culture concerns and why he still supports women’s rugby after last week’s social media row.
• “YouTube CEO at World Economic Forum: “There’ll always be work that we have to do” to censor “misinformation”” – At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting for 2022, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki committed to persistent censorship of “misinformation” and praised YouTube’s existing censorship efforts, reports Reclaim the Net.
• “Censorship will not prevent Buffalo-style shootings” – Predictable calls for more online surveillance have come since the attacks, writes Katherine Dee in UnHerd.
• “Stirring the melting pot” – Like any good villain in a horror movie, some policy ideas are both terrible and refuse to die. One example is ‘mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting’, writes Richard Norrie in the Critic.
• “Ricky Gervais praised for Netflix special ‘SuperNature’ mocking cancel culture with jokes about trans people, Hitler and AIDS – sparking Twitter pile on from woke brigade” – The comedian has been praised after telling the audience, “You can’t predict what will be offensive in the future”, but some viewers have taken to social media to blast the comedian and Netflix over the “bigoted hatred”, reports the Mail.

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