News Round-Up

• “U.K. monkeypox cases jump 70% in just three days to 179 as health chiefs say anyone who develops a new rash should abstain from sex” – The WHO also upgrades the threat to moderate, the Mail reports.
• “People with monkeypox symptoms told to isolate at home” – The UKHSA issues new guidance in a bid to stem community transmission as cases almost double, according to the Telegraph.
• “We Won” – The Biden Administration suffered a stunning defeat in its attempt to amend the International Health Regulations at the World Health Assembly last week, says James Roguski.
• “Tory MP slapped down by watchdog for false claim about Covid jab deaths” – U.K. Stats Authority Chair Sian Jones told Tory grandee Sir Christopher Chope there was “no basis in official statistics” to support his claim that 10,000 have been seriously injured or killed by the Covid vaccines, the Mirror reports. Hmm, so what are the 1.5 million adverse reactions reported to the Yellow Card system, including 2,000 deaths?
• “Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, 66, will miss Queen’s Platinum Jubilee service at St Paul’s Cathedral after being diagnosed with Covid and mild pneumonia” – Welby was diagnosed with pneumonia on Thursday last week but was still well enough to continue working on a reduced schedule, Lambeth Palace said, according to the Mail.
• “Data shenanigans as Sweden misleads its public over vaccination-related mortality data” – Sweden has been caught counting deaths as unvaccinated right up until 14 days after a second jab, says HART. Which other countries are playing the same game?
• “Hear me out” – A whistleblower audiologist speaks to HART about the way paediatric services are letting children down through an ongoing lack of face-to-face care.
• “Won’t Get Fooled Again” – After the pandemic, Americans should never let public-health authorities deprive them of their liberties, writes John Tierney in City Journal.
• “Menstrual Irregularities, Uterus Shedding Cases Spike After Covid Vaccine Rollout: Peer-Reviewed Study” – The first of three peer-reviewed research studies on women who suffered menstrual irregularities or a decidual cast around the time Covid vaccines were rolled out begins to shed light on the sudden spike of this historically rare gynecological abnormality, reports the Epoch Times.
• “The spineless generation” – There is nothing wrong with being sensible about one’s health, but health concern is now a religion, an end in itself and the supreme value, says Dr. Frank Palmer in TCW Defending Freedom.
• “Jacinda Ardern is New Zealand’s Gorbachev” – Foreigners love the New Zealand Prime Minister. Kiwis? Not so much, says Nicholas Sheppard in the Spectator.
• “N. Korea lifts Covid lockdown amid ‘stable’ virus situation – media” – North Korea has lifted movement restrictions imposed in the capital Pyongyang after its first admission of a COVID-19 outbreak weeks ago, media reported, as the isolated country says the virus situation is now under control, Reuters reports. So has the virus magically evaporated during the lockdown?
• “British Airways staff threaten summer strike” – Unions seize on travel chaos to demand higher wages, reports the Telegraph.
• “Why Did U.S. Intellectuals and Officials Celebrate and Copy China’s Lockdown Model?” – The Chinese Communist Party carefully cultivated the World Health Organisation over a decade, and there’s a growing mountain of evidence that it made significant headway in cultivating the health and security bureaucracies of many member nations as well, writes Michael Senger at Brownstone.
• “The three despicable myths that are dooming Britain to eternal mediocrity” – The U.K. is in crisis because we’ve swallowed an unholy trinity of Left-wing lies, says Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
• “Millions of homes warned of winter blackouts” – Electricity could be rationed if the Kremlin cuts off further gas supplies to Europe, reports the Telegraph.
• “Scientists plan to feed primary school children locusts and mealworms to make the UK greener” – Edible insects are highly nutritious and have a much smaller carbon footprint than conventional meat, scientists say, as a trial gets underway at primary schools, reports the i.
• “Justice system ‘puts trans rights ahead of women’” – Report in the Times that women are being failed by the criminal justice system because it is too focused on transgender rights, according to a report from Policy Exchange.
• “Watch: Trans activists hound Nadhim Zahawi off university campus” – A video in the Telegraph shows the Education Secretary being ushered away by security guards at Warwick University after he was pursued by student protesters.
• “What Stella Creasy gets wrong about trans rights” – Julie Bindel in the Speccie weighs in on the Labour MP’s difficulties with basic biology.
• “Boris Johnson is opening the door to a populist insurgency” – Brexit was meant to deliver lower immigration, but the reverse is happening, writes Eric Kaufmann in UnHerd.
• “Why Biden’s Ministry of Truth had to fail” – “Disinformation” just means oppositional views and inconvenient truths, writes Simon Evans in Spiked.

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