News Round-Up

• “Blow for PM as ministerial aide quits over ‘shocking’ Partygate report” – Paul Holmes quit his Home Office role as he lashed out at the “distasteful” culture in Number 10 that Sue Gray’s report uncovered, according to the Mail.
• “Just 21% believe Covid pandemic is ‘over’ according to new poll” – More than two months after all Coronavirus restrictions were lifted in England, there are still signs of a pandemic hangover across the country, reports the Mail.
• “Monkeypox surge linked to end of Covid restrictions as virus finds new ‘niche’” – Post lockdown, viruses are increasingly circulating out of season, appearing in new regions and causing unexpected disease, reports the Telegraph.
• “NHS 111 ‘overwhelmed’ as monkeypox sees surge in calls” – A UKHSA chief has urged people with rashes to instead contact their nearest sexual health clinic, reports the Telegraph.
• “Monkeypox: Natural Outbreak or Engineered Bioterrorism?” – The Swiss Doctor gets stuck into the monkeypox outbreak.
• “Eighteen Major Airlines, FAA, and DOT to Be Sued Over Covid Vaccine Mandates” – The Epoch Times reports that John Pierce Law has filed a lawsuit against Atlas Air, on behalf of U.S. Freedom Flyers (USFF) and Atlas employees, and plans to sue all major airlines plus the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Department of Transportation (DOT), contending that the vaccine mandates imposed by these agencies on the airlines’ employees infringed on their constitutional, religious and medical liberties.
• “Geologists plan to crack open ancient crystal that may contain life  ” – While bringing 830-million-year-old life forms back into the modern world might not sound like the most sensible idea, researchers insist it will be carried out with the utmost caution, reports the Mail.
• “Tenant is jailed for 33 years for stabbing his landlords to death” – An HIV-positive tenant who stabbed his landlords to death in “a bloodbath” in lockdown over fears COVID-19 would kill him has been jailed for at least 33 years, reports the Mail.
• “Australia begins to reap what it has sown. It’s grim.” – All cause mortality goes significantly excess in April 2021, writes Joel Smalley on his Substack page.
• “Man who died after Covid jab was given old information about risks ” – Jack Hurn, 26, from Redditch, who died from blood clots on the brain after receiving the AstraZeneca jab, was given out-of-date information about blood clot risks, the inquest hears, the Mail reports.
• “Rapid four-in-one test looks for Covid, flu and RSV simultaneously” – Newcastle-based QuantuMDx launched its Q-POC rapid PCR test to detect coronavirus last year. Now, the company has upgraded the device’s capabilities to test for Flu A and B, as well as RSV, reports the Mail.
• “Swedish Public Health Agency reporting has distorted mortality rates for the unvaccinated and the vaccinated” – Sweden has been caught counting Covid deaths as unvaccinated for anyone infected prior to 14 days after the second jab, skewing the official data, according to a group of 29 doctors writing on Lakaruppropet.
• “Pro-Putin news organisation says there are ‘fears of U.K. famine and cannibalism’… because of a Jeremy Clarkson joke” – The Mail reports that pro-Kremlin channel and website Tsargrad TV reported on May 23rd: “(Britain’s) own population is preparing for starvation… the British are being pushed towards cannibalism!”
• “The World Bank’s Impractical Electric Car Clap-Trap” – The U.K. Government insists that combustion engine vehicles will be banned from production, importing and sale by 2030, but Connor Tomlinson on Net Zero Watch suggests this is a very bad idea.
• A brief history of woke” – Joanna Williams on Spiked on how reactionary ideas about race, gender and class made a comeback in faux-progressive form – an excerpt from her new book.
• “Treasury Civil Servants Warned ‘Seemingly Nice People’ Can Be Appallingly Unwoke” – In a lengthy new internal memo to Treasury civil servants this week, the Department’s Head of Ethnic Diversity Network (EDN) shared a series of helpful pointers for staff to become “critical friends” of the Treasury and remind them “we are all a work in progress“, according to Guido.
• “David Lammy, George Floyd and the trouble with ‘structural racism” – The most fundamental belief of modern progressives is that evidence of disparities is evidence of prejudice, writes Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Spectator.
• “TUI slammed for axing ‘ladies & gentlemen’ in bid to be gender-neutral” – Holiday giant TUI is telling pilots and cabin crew not to refer to passengers as “ladies and gentlemen” to be more gender-neutral, according to the Sun.
• “Ricky Gervais is guilty of blasphemy” – He has mocked identity politics – the god of our times, writes Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
• “Ricky Gervais doesn’t punch down” – Gender ideologues are the real bullies, says Andrew Doyle in UnHerd.
• “Stella Creasy: ‘J.K. Rowling is wrong – a woman can have a penis’” – Telegraph report that finds the Labour MP biologically challenged.
• “Welcome to woke Whitehall, where more than 100 genders are recognised” – A Telegraph investigation reveals how identity politics and a drive to regulate language are infecting central Government, creating an ‘environment of fear’.

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