News Round-Up

“One year on, we still haven’t learnt the lessons of lockdown failure” – The apparatus that was so eager to apply restrictions last Christmas is still there, ready to pounce again, warns Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
“Cardiologist calls for an end to mNRA booster shots – as teen, 18, tells how her reaction to the jab saw her miss her Year 12 exams: ‘I’ve had 60 to 70 in my practice who’ve had similar reactions’” – A top Sydney cardiologist has called for an end to the use of mRNA vaccines like Pfizer. “These mRNA vaccines are very pro-inflammatory,” Dr. Ross Walker told the Mail.
“Xi, Covid and seasonal schadenfreude” – Xi Jinping is facing down his nemesis, and the pesky, invisible speck is winning, writes Lionel Shriver in the Spectator.
“‘Deadly cancer timebomb’ as thousands more than expected killed by the illness since pandemic” – The Telegraph reports on calls for a dedicated minister to be appointed to tackle the ‘growing emergency’ with the same urgency as the Covid vaccine rollout.
“CoronaVax safety in the Netherlands: Update 2” – Dr. Robert Malone with an update of Dr. Theo Schetters’ survey of public data from the Netherlands.
“Government experts oppose downgrading Covid, citing excess cardio deaths” – Guy Gin reports that Japan’s Covid Response Advisory Board experts have advised against downgrading Covid by pointing to the non-Covid cardiac deaths, which they imply are caused by the virus.
“Covid Vaccines: A Reality Check (II)” – The Swiss Doctor’s latest update, with lots of useful info and links, though the attempt to blame Covid rather than the vaccines for most of the excess heart deaths is not so convincing.
“Biggest North Sea producer refuses to drill new oil wells because of windfall tax” – Harbour Energy is refusing to bid for new U.K. oil and gas wells and reviewing its investments in response to the Government’s tax raid on the sector, the Telegraph reports.
“Stop using equality laws to restrict free speech, universities warned” – Susan Lapworth, Chief Executive of the Office for Students, said that “too often” universities are curtailing free speech by “leaning more fully” into their equality duties “than the law supports”, reports the Telegraph.
“Are we ruled by midwits?” – There are few reasons for optimism, says Dr. Noah Carl.
“The Cambridge Dictionary pretends that a woman is a man” – Laura Dodsworth suggests we’re “going through the looking glass when dictionaries make up meanings”.
“A world of our own making” – “What we call wokery does not have a proper ideological base because it is incoherent and often contradictory,” writes Rod Liddle in the Speccie. “Instead, we have created it unwittingly, without thinking, over the past 50 or 60 years and as such only have ourselves to blame.”
“‘This is Nicola Sturgeon’s poll tax’: J.K. Rowling calls SNP’s controversial Gender Recognition Reform Bill ‘the biggest assault on rights of women and girls’ in her lifetime and compares it to contentious Thatcherite policy” – The Harry Potter author has been outspoken in her opposition of the bill, which will make it easier for transgender people to change their legal sex, the Mail reports.
“In Whitehall, civil servants reign over ministers” – David Frost writes in the Telegraph that Government departments are impossible to control, since politicians have little influence over officials.
“The demonisation of Elon Musk” – Laurie Wastell in Spiked says free speech is not a ‘far right’ value.
“The coming crackdown on homeschooling” – The Minister for Woke Indoctrination is still intent on undermining educational freedom, according to Gareth Sturdy in Spiked.
“Dr. Aseem Malhotra on Andrew Bridgen MP’s call to halt the Covid vaccines” – Watch the leading cardiologist discuss with Mark Dolan on GB News the issues raised by Andrew Bridgen in his recent Commons speech calling for Covid vaccinations to be halted over safety concerns.

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