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News Round-Up

by Ian Macleod
3 May 2023 12:34 AM

  • “Many Covid authoritarians are suddenly shifting their narratives” – Why are the likes of Dr. Anthony Fauci, Randi Weingarten and Justin Trudeau changing their stories on the Covid response, asks Tyler Durden in Zero Hedge.
  • “Princess Anne says lockdown ‘stole’ father Prince Philip’s final years because he was robbed of social interaction” – The Princess Royal revealed her thoughts around the toll the social distancing rules had on her family and others during an interview with Canadian public broadcaster CBC, according to MailOnline.
  • “The coronavirus inquiry has become a woke therapy exercise” – No wonder the process is moving at a snail’s pace, with lawyers obsessing over “structural racism”, says Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
  • “CNN takes Surgeon General to task on kids and masks” – Mainstream journalists are starting to ask some of the questions they should have had three years ago. CNN host Erin Burnett put some pressure on Dr. Vivek Murthy regarding masking policy and advice, according to Justin Hart.
  • “Thomas Jefferson President ‘should have known better,’ says the CEO” – The Chief Executive Officer of Thomas Jefferson University said he was “disappointed” in President Mark Tykocinski’s “careless use” of his Twitter account in which he “liked” tweets that question the science of COVID-19 vaccines and call gender reassignment surgery “child mutilation”, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
  • “Joseph Ladapo bucks the Covid vaccine orthodoxy” – The Florida Surgeon General’s critics ignore the science and resort to personal attacks, writes Allysia Finley in the Wall Street Journal.
  • “What is wrong with the Covid jabs? They are hurting so many people” – In a nutshell, the mRNA platform is fundamentally inappropriate for use and was never proven to be safe for any vaccine, says Dr. Tess Lawrie.
  • “Texas Attorney General launches investigation into gain-of-function research and claims made by vaccine manufacturers” – Texas Attorney General Paxton announced that his office has launched an investigation into three pharmaceutical companies to determine if they conducted gain-of-function research and if they misled the public on the matter, reports the Daily Wire.
  • “Republican lawmakers probe whether Consumer Reports, other Left-wing green lobbying groups started ‘hidden pressure campaign’ prompting calls to ban gas stoves nationwide” – Green lobbyists tried to force the Biden administration into banning gas stoves across America, according to allegations by two leading congressional Republicans, reports DailyMail.com.
  • “Offshore wind delivers one tenth of jobs promised by Ministers” – Scotland has produced only around a tenth of the offshore wind jobs forecast by Ministers as it aimed to make the country the green energy capital of Europe, reports the Herald.
  • “Londoners fight back against the Just Stop Oil eco-zealots” – Furious bystanders rip banners from their hands, motorists scream abuse and driver rams activist and ‘runs over her foot’ as slow-marching protesters ignore police orders to stay off the streets, reports MailOnline.
  • “EU backs Dutch Government’s farm buyout plan to cut nitrogen pollution” – Dutch Government plans to cut nitrogen pollution have cleared a key hurdle after the European Union’s executive arm gave the green light to farm buyout schemes worth nearly £1.32 billion, reports the Irish Examiner.
  • “Now you can’t even say ‘responsible drinking’” – The World Health Organisation has come under fire for claiming the phrase “responsible drinking” stigmatises drunks, according to the Daily Mail.
  • “Universities are losing the battle for free speech” – Examples of institutional pushback pale in comparison to broader trends, says Eric Kaufmann in UnHerd.
  • “Ireland set to pass far-reaching hate speech laws” – Barely covered by Irish media, news about the bill soon reached the likes of Twitter’s Elon Musk and Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson, who promptly slammed it, reports the European Conservative.
  • “The West’s betrayal of free speech” – Our leaders talk a good game about defending dissidents abroad, while cracking down on thoughtcrime at home, says Lois McLatchie in Spiked.
  • “How antisemitic tropes crept back into the mainstream” – The Guardian is just the latest outlet to publish dodgy cartoons of Jews, writes Frank Furedi in Spiked.
  • “Obsession with hate crime has warped policing” – Stella Creasy’s shocking treatment shows how feelings now take priority over fairness and facts, says Melanie Phillips in the Times.
  • “Majority of public believe King should not apologise for slavery, new poll shows,” – Despite a growing clamour, 55% are against King Charles saying sorry for the Royal Family’s previous links to the slave trade, the poll reveals, according to MailOnline.
  • “Changing the end of Great Expectations wasn’t the first time the BBC has altered a story to fit a woke agenda” – Viewers were left raging when British classic Great Expectations concluded with a different ending. However it’s far from the first time the BBC have altered an adaptation, according to MailOnline.
  • “Transgender athletes in women’s sport are shameless cheats” – In my book, athletes like Austin Killips are thieves – yet those whose prizes they take are being forced to maintain this mortifying charade, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
  • “Are we any closer to the truth about the Tavistock?” – The U.K.’s notorious gender clinic needs to come clean about its relationship to lobby groups like Mermaids, says Lauren Smith in Spiked.
  • “Oklahoma bans trans procedures on kids, becoming 16th state to enact such protections” – Republican Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed a law on Monday banning sex change procedures on kids, according to the Daily Wire.
  • “Question: when did Marxist communism come to Cambodia?” – Stephen R. C. Hicks, Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, Illinois, provides a generous clue to help answer his economics pop quiz on Twitter.

Question: When did Marxist communism come to Cambodia? pic.twitter.com/HrTKIR40AA

— Stephen R. C. Hicks (@SRCHicks) May 1, 2023

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