News Round-Up

• “Fears of Wimbledon Covid outbreak amongst men’s players after Matteo Berrettini withdrawal” – Novak Djokovic’s second practice partner tests positive for Covid after Marin Cilic withdrew from the Championships on Monday, reports the Telegraph. Here’s a tip, guys: stop testing.
• “Will it ever end? FDA panel set to discuss whether Americans need an Omicron-specific booster shot – even after agency approved fourth doses of Covid vaccine for the most vulnerable: Daily cases and deaths steady over past week” – Another COVID-19 vaccine dose could be on the way, with FDA advisors set to meet this week to discuss the merits of Omicron-specific boosters, reports the Mail.
• “GPs vote for industrial action over being told to work on Saturdays” – The Telegraph reports that doctors at the BMA annual conference voted to walk out in protest at being expected to work weekends again.
• “Warnings of mental health crisis among ‘Covid generation’ of students” – The Guardian reports that the pandemic has had a lasting impact on students’ wellbeing and the problem is getting worse.
• “China cuts inbound COVID-19 quarantine by half in first move to ease borders restrictions” – The country said this did not mean it is changing course on its Zero-Covid goal, according to ABC News.
• “Latest survey shows the Covid vaccines are a disaster” – Steve Kirsch reports the results of his latest survey among a representative sample of the U.S. public, which found that 6.6% reported heart issues as a result of their vaccination, 2.7% that they were unable to work, 6.3% that they were hospitalised and 2% that there was a vaccine death in their household.
• “Did BA.4-5 interacting with vaccines cause the death spike in Portugal?” – El Gato Malo says Portugal has turned out to be an outlier in seeing a death spike associated with Omicron BA.4 and BA.5.
• “Ukraine: Where’s the peace plan?” – David Smith in the Critic warns that if we don’t create a road to peace, Ukraine may become another Syria.
• “Progressivism, Sexuality, and Mental Illness” – Will America be entirely gay in a few generations? Will everyone be mentally ill? It would appear so from a straight-line extrapolation of the stunning rise in both LGBT identification and mental illness among young Americans, writes Eric Kaufmann in Quillette.
• “Julie Bindel will sue council which banned her talk at a library” – The women’s rights activist writes in the Mail that her talk in Nottinghamshire was cancelled on the “ludicrous grounds that my views on transgender rights are ‘at odds’ with civic policy”. Now she is suing the council responsible.
• “Arrest that joke! A history of gags so offensive that punters called the cops” – Standup Joe Lycett has revealed that he was reported to police for one of his routines. From Sacha Baron Cohen to Jo Brand, Brian Logan in the Guardian looks at what happens when laughter and the law collide.
• “Universities told to reconsider membership of ‘woke’ scheme” – The Telegraph reports that Michelle Donelan, the Higher Education Minister, has written to vice-chancellors warning that the Race Equality Charter, run by Advance HE, could be in conflict with universities’ duty to uphold free speech.
• “Black kids should study Larkin” – Decolonising the curriculum is a patronising effort, says Tomiwa Owolade in UnHerd.
• “The truth about Canada’s Indian graves” – The indigenous industry is thriving off fake news, says Tom Flanagan in UnHerd.
• “It’s time to take down the Pride flag” – With this eyesore flag flying on every street, London feels like a city under occupation, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “May I humbly suggest a ban on people announcing via Twitter they have Covid” – Never before has a disease been worn with such pride or enthusiasm, says Mark Dolan. “It’s almost like it’s subtle ammunition for more ruinous, failed measures.”

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