News Round-Up

• “Scandal of ‘concerning’ 999 calls that aren’t answered for nine minutes” – One in every 100 callers in Yorkshire was made to wait nine minutes 28 seconds to speak to somebody in April, according to the latest NHS England data, the Mail reports.
• “GP made end-of-life care recommendation after incorrect video diagnosis” – A former NHS worker was mistakenly told she had organ failure when a doctor noticed her “skin was yellow” during a video consultation, the Telegraph reports.
• “Why the last Covid isolators are staying home” – Although restrictions have lifted, some people have no intention of resuming their pre-pandemic lives anytime soon, according to the Telegraph.
• “Is there a new Covid wave – and do we need to worry?” – Read Michael Simmons’s take in the Spectator.
• “New Zealand indigenous family under house arrest for 11 months for not taking Covid jab” – LifeSite News reports that the father of the family believes the punishment reveals contempt by the New Zealand Government towards the indigenous population.
• “A Tale of Two Failed Tory Leaders” – There are some important lessons to be learned for each of the U.K. and Australia from the other, as conservative politicians and voters in both countries ponder rocky times and much contentious ideological debate ahead, writes Paul Collits on his Substack page.
• “Mattias Desmet on the Totalitarianism of Mass Panic” –Desmet conceives “mass formation” as being associated with – almost requiring – a blurring of the line between fact and fiction, writes Joakim Book at Brownstone.
• “Greenland’s Summers Surprisingly Cooling Over Past Decade, Driven by Natural Oceanic Cycles” – Natural cycles have cooled Greenland in recent years, writes Pierre Gosselin on Watts Up With That?
• “Cornell, Due Process, and Liberal Education” – To provide an education worthy of free men and women, university administrators and faculty must cease to furnish students a highbrow spectacle of censorship, witch hunts, and kangaroo courts, and instead transform their campuses into bastions of free speech and due process, writes Peter Berkowitz in RealClear Politics.
• “The NHS’s disturbing trans guidance for children” –  The Health Secretary needs to get a grip on an NHS website that seems in thrall to magical thinking on sex and gender, says Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
• “NHS trust ‘gives competing companies higher marks for adopting Stonewall ideology’” – Leaked documents from Lewisham and Greenwich Trust reveal that companies vying to win contracts faced questions related to the Charity’s policies, reports the Telegraph.
• “Don’t fret about the lower-class sugar habit. All we need to do is grow more Dimblebys” – Rod Liddle writes in the Times that the middle classes look at the “sweating, lardbucket oiks, chavs and proles grunting and wheezing their way from the Spicy Deep Fried Chicken Sludge and Botuloburger Grill to the cider aisle in Asda, fag in the mouth, and are overcome with an acute aesthetic nausea”.
• “Ad boycott is undermining GB News and free speech, says boss” – Angelos Frangopoulos says the advertising snub is “dangerous for public debate”, according to the Telegraph.
• “Will the Government stand up to mob rule?” – Far too often at the moment the woke Left are getting away with overturning the rule of law, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
• “Mansplaining womanhood” – Victoria Smith in the Critic is wary of Matt Walsh’s anti-feminist views, despite thinking his new documentary opposing gender theory may do some good.
• “Joe Biden’s woke imperialism” – Developing nations have had enough of the West’s lectures, says Frank Furedi in Spiked.
• “On the latest episode of Free Speech Nation: The Podcast, Andrew Doyle is joined by General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, Toby Young” – Watch the video on Twitter.

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