News Round-Up

• “Why on earth did we give up our freedom without an argument?” – Janet Daley in the Telegraph warns that “we cannot afford to ignore the collective nervous breakdown which triggered the West’s lurch into lockdown”.
• “Moderna sues BioNTech/Pfizer?” – Dr. Robert Malone, one of the original inventors of mRNA vaccine technology, gives his take on the pharma showdown over who got there first.
• “Moderna and Pfizer: Cat Fight!” – Jeffrey Tucker at the Brownstone Institute writes that “there is absolutely no theory of political economy in existence that could possibly justify this combination of 1) private company with vast tax funding, 2) government-enforced monopoly claims of ownership, 3) indemnification against damage claims, 4) publicly-traded stocks, plus 5) a forced customer base. And to top it all off, it’s not even clear that the product worked; it certainly did not live up to the wild claims from top government officials.”
• “Whistleblower Disputes Data Glitch Explanation Behind Drastic Increase in Non-Infectious Diseases in Military” – A medical Army officer who discovered a sudden increase in disease coinciding with reports of side effects alongside COVID-19 vaccines – which the Army has dismissed as a data glitch – said he faces involuntary separation after being convicted but not punished for disobeying COVID-19 protocol, according to the Epoch Times.
• “Booster jabs for all is waste of taxpayer cash, says AstraZeneca boss” – The Chief Executive of AstraZeneca, Pascal Soriot, tells the Telegraph that widespread annual COVID -19 booster jabs are “not a good use” of taxpayer cash, since, according to him, research shows that the vaccine gives protection against severe disease for a long time.
• “Exhaustive study of German mortality data finds excess deaths tightly correlated with mass vaccination” – Eugyppius discusses a new study by Christof Kuhbandner and Matthias Reitzner that applies actuarial analysis to the all-cause mortality data provided by the German Government and finds some surprising results.
• “We really are back to the Seventies – even the Tories accept the high-spending consensus” – Daniel Hannan complains in the Telegraph that it used to be possible for politicians to argue for a smaller state and win elections, but lockdown has changed everything.
• “Inspirational Message To The Unvaccinated” – Dr. Pierre Kory shares a message he received from a member of his term that he found extremely powerful.
• “Friday Funny – There is No Climate Emergency” – Unless you are on the doom news payroll, says Josh, with a new cartoon on WUWT.
• “Electric cars will be more expensive to run than petrol” – The Telegraph reports that the cost of travelling long distances will be much higher under the new price cap.
• “Did the RAF break the law in its pursuit of diversity?” – Guy Adams in the Mail is pretty sure he knows what the answer is.
• “Drew Barrymore is accused of being racist for video of her frolicking” – Drew Barrymore was branded racist over a video of herself enjoying a rainstorm – after woke killjoys claimed she’d copied a trend dubbed ‘black men frolicking’, according to the Mail. Focus on the important things, guys.
• “The New York Times is eating itself” – Jenny Holland in Spiked wonders why the world’s most ‘liberal’ newsroom is being accused of racism (Spoiler: it’s because ‘POC’ employees aren’t being rated as highly, which obviously can only be due to discrimination).
• “The woke mob’s maddest idea yet: fighting sexism… by going topless” – Campaigners really do seem to believe that they can end the ‘sexualisation’ of women by getting their kit off in public, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph – but he’s not convinced they’ve thought it through.
• “The case of the Benin bronzes, or how the woke monster is eating itself” – Juliet Samuel in the Telegraph thinks the case is complex, but one thing we should be clear about: We should reject any claim that revives, for political purposes, the use of bloodlines as a legal instrument.
• “Universities drop Chaucer and Shakespeare as ‘decolonisation’ takes root” – An increasing number of U.K. universities have sought to ‘liberate’ their courses from ‘white, Western and Eurocentric’ knowledge, according to the Telegraph – entirely failing to understand their role in sustaining British and European culture.
• “The police removing lesbians from a pride parade. The pride movement no longer supports gay people” – Tweet from Andrew Doyle on the trans takeover of Pride.

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