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News Round-Up

by Ian Macleod
8 May 2023 1:34 AM

  • “Parents more likely to question routine childhood vaccinations post-Covid: research report” – Only 39% of respondents said they accept all recommended childhood vaccines and have no doubts or concerns about vaccinating their child – a drop from 48% in 2017, says Tyler Durden in Zero Hedge.
  • “Covid vaccine injuries: in the eye of the storm?” – A new study published in the journal NPJ Vaccines finds good and bad news after looking into the risk of retinal vascular occlusion – typically caused by blood clots in the tiny blood vessels of the eye – after Covid vaccination, reports Swiss Policy Research.   
  • “What good comes from gain-of-function?” – In Brownstone, Thomas Buckley grapples with the definition and risk-reward calculation for gain-of-function research in the context of COVID-19.
  • “Electric cars losing their value twice as fast as petrol alternatives” – Early adopters have seen huge amounts wiped off the value of their purchases, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Sheer weight of electric vehicles could sink our bridges” – Councils receive notice that EVs are 33% heavier than petrol vehicles and 1 in 20 bridges are “substandard”, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Rolls-Royce mini-nukes project under threat as Bill Gates eyes bid” – Bill Gates is eyeing a bid to build Britain’s first mini-nuclear reactor in a direct challenge to Rolls-Royce which is scrambling to secure a Government contract, according to the Telegraph.
  • “King Charles: a reactionary ruler” – Our green, mystical monarch harbours a deep suspicion of modernity, science and freedom, writes Tim Black in Spiked.
  • “Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer is looking ‘very closely’ at BBC funding” – Frazer praised the BBC’s coverage of the Coronation, but said that a review of the funding model is under way, and will be looking at a “variety” of options for funding, reports MailOnline.
  • “Bridgerton star Adjoa Andoh stuns ITV presenters by calling the Buckingham Palace balcony ‘terribly white’ during live Coronation coverage” – The star, whose father was of Ghanaian origin, was commentating for the network on their programme hosted by Tom Bradby and Julie Etchingham, according to MailOnline.
  • “The fact that collapses the case for slavery reparations” – The case for slavery reparations seems to be growing louder every day. In the Spectator, Andreas Koureas presents one fact that he suggests defeats this case.  
  • “Black Californians could get $1.2 million each in reparations” – Panel set up by state’s Democratic Governor, Gavin Newsom, recommends total payout of $500 billion for years of discrimination suffered, according to the Telegraph.
  • “The Left sees ‘unconscious bias’ everywhere. But it’s oddly blind to blatant antisemitism” – Three editors saw the controversial cartoon of Richard Sharp before it appeared in the Guardian, but none said anything. Camilla Long asks why in the Times.  
  • “The unbearable whiteness of being” – The American Physical Society views the existence of white privilege in physics as being both scientific and not scientific, argues theoretical physicist and author Lawrence Krauss in Quillette.
  • “Cambridge students protest Stonewall co-founder’s talk” – An address from Stonewall founder Simon Fanshawe – who has condemned the “narcissism” of the movement he once championed – is the latest in a series of contested free speech talks hosted by Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge, writes Lara Brown in UnHerd.
  • “Richard Dreyfuss slams Oscars’ new woke inclusivity rules that ‘treat people like children’” – The Jaws star hit out at the woke rules during an episode of Firing Line, saying “they make me vomit”, according to DailyMail.com.  
  • “Leftists jump on NYC subway tracks, brawl with NYPD over Jordan Neely death” – Left-wing activists jumped on the subway tracks in New York City over the weekend, temporarily bringing a part of the subway system to a halt, as they clashed with police over the death of Jordan Neely this week, according to the Daily Wire.
  • “Medical evidence over trans ideology: welcome to the doctors’ resistance” – In the Sunday Times, Hadley Freeman explains how a network of clinicians in the U.K. and Ireland is standing up to gender ideology.
  • “‘Tide begins to turn’ for the women cancelled by trans campaigners” – The poet Jenny Lindsay (who was subjected to cancellation after a tweet she sent in 2019) tells her story after MP Joanna Cherry condemns “new form of McCarthyism” based on gender ideology, reports the Sunday Times.
  • “Chicago gay bars boycott Anheuser-Busch as brewer shuns Dylan Mulvaney” – Five Chicago gay bars are boycotting Anheuser-Busch for distancing itself from transgender social media star Dylan Mulvaney after Bud Light marketing collaboration drew conservatives’ ire, reports the New York Post.
  • “The making of an identity crisis” – The rise of gender-confused children is nothing to celebrate, argues Frank Furedi in Spiked.
  • “My tweets are all moderated by my staff and have been for the last 12 years” – Andrew Bridgen MP reveals that his controversial tweet – where he cited a cardiologist who called the Covid vaccine campaign the “biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust” – was approved and posted by his Conservative Association Chairman.

'My tweets are all moderated by my staff and have been for the last 12 years.'

Andrew Bridgen MP reveals his controversial tweet, comparing the Covid vaccine rollout to the Holocaust, was approved and posted by his Conservative Association Chairman. pic.twitter.com/ODt11VRDfe

— GB News (@GBNEWS) May 7, 2023

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