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News Round-Up

by Will Jones
18 March 2023 12:17 AM

  • “Number of pupils missing the majority of school doubles since the pandemic, new figures show” – Research suggests more than 120,000 children were absent for half or more lessons in the last academic year, twice the number in 2018-19, the Telegraph reports.
  • “Blame lockdown failures for today’s inflation disaster” – Economists abandoned their duty to scrutinise government policies on Covid – and now they have less credibility to help bring down prices, write Jay Bhattacharya and Mikko Pakalen in the Telegraph.
  • “Please stop with the raccoon dogs” – Alex Berenson is not impressed with the latest from the zoonosis crowd.
  • “The Story of Influenza Antivirals: Part 1” – Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan look at the pharma backstory to the pandemic.
  • “Twitter Files #19: Sinister Surveillance & Suppression: The Shocking Secrets of the Virality Project” – The Twitter Files #19 sheds light on the alarming actions of the Virality Project, a secretive collaboration between Stanford University, federal agencies and various NGOs, that drove censorship of true but inconvenient facts, writes Justin Hart.
  • “Why ‘serious’ scientists do not buy lab leak” – Brian Mowrey continues to make the case for intentional release.
  • “Curious: Angela Merkel’s September 2019 Visit to Wuhan” – Robert Kogon in Brownstone is suspicious of Germany’s ties to Wuhan.
  • “Birmingham’s version of Ulez is in chaos: Drivers get nearly 70,000 clean air zone fines overturned in road scheme that will net council £50 million profit” – Birmingham’s own version of the Ulez is in chaos after it emerged that nearly 70,000 fines have been written off by the city council, the Mail reports.
  • “Net Zero could cost Americans more than $50 trillion, new paper warns” – An eminent researcher has warned that any attempt to decarbonise the U.S. economy by 2050 is doomed to failure, according to the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
  • “Countdown To New York’s Rendezvous With Energy Impossibility” – The race is on to see who hits the green energy wall of impossibility first, says Francis Menton in the Manhattan Contrarian.
  • “Is France too sexy for the trans wars?” – Radical activism is sweeping across Europe, says Kathleen Stock in UnHerd.
  • “Labour has made Wales the wokest country in Europe” – If you want to know what Keir Starmer has in store for Britain, look no further than our Western neighbour, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
  • “Broken promises on immigration have led to a Brexiteer exodus from the Tories” – Voters do not want ‘control’ over our borders, they want lower numbers, and the Conservatives must stop gaslighting their own voters, say Matthew Goodwin and Steven Edgington in the Telegraph.
  • “Transgender Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine says changing kids’ genders has the ‘highest support’ of the Biden administration and is key to the mental health of minors” – Levine says that gender-affirming care for minors has the “highest support” of the Biden administration and is imperative for the mental health of minors, according to the Mail.
  • “Xi confirms Russia trip as it emerges China is sending rifles to Putin’s men” – The leaders will discuss “deepening Russian-Chinese cooperation” in their first meeting since the war began, according to the Telegraph.
  • “A Ukrainian commander has revealed the true scale of losses – and paid the price” – The battalion commander revealed 500 soldiers in his unit had either been killed or injured, but furious Ukrainian generals then demoted him, the Telegraph reports.
  • “Putin’s fury as International Criminal Court issues warrant for his arrest for war crimes and abducting Ukrainian children: Kremlin slams ‘outrageous’ decision but Kyiv says ‘the wheels of justice are turning’” – The International Criminal court has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin over his invasion of Ukraine, the Mail reports.
  • “Nicola Sturgeon’s gender reforms blamed for SNP losing 40% of its membership” – Nicola Sturgeon has denied the SNP is in crisis as the party was forced to admit that more than 40% of its members have quit and her self-ID gender reforms were blamed for a recent mass exodus, the Telegraph reports.
  • “Britain is addicted to mass migration – and it is not racist to say this must change” – Ministers haven’t just lost control of the Channel: the huge scale of legal immigration is being allowed to continue with little scrutiny, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
  • “An Englishman in Terror” – Roger Watson reviews friend-of-the-site Philip Tucker’s first novel for Country Squire.
  • “Why slavery reparations are a terrible idea” – San Francisco’s reparations plans are divisive, demeaning and insane, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
  • “The Great COVID-19 Lie Machine Stanford, the Virality Project, and the Censorship of ‘True Stories’” – Matt Taibbi with the latest from the Twitter Files, exposing a sinister censorship project based at Stanford.

1.TWITTER FILES #19
The Great Covid-19 Lie Machine
Stanford, the Virality Project, and the Censorship of “True Stories” pic.twitter.com/v41dyC26ZR

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 17, 2023

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