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News Round-Up

by Ian Macleod
17 May 2023 12:55 AM

  • “The decline of science at the FDA has become unmanageable” – In the BMJ, Dr. David B. Ross, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at George Washington University School of Medicine, explains the decline into “cult science” at America’s drugs regulator.
  • “Myers versus Bridgen: round 2” – Hostilities continue between Fraser Myers of Spiked and Andrew Bridgen MP in their dispute about COVID-19 vaccines, says Roger Watson in TCW.
  • “Teachers fired for refusing Covid vaccine to get full reinstatement and back pay” – Three Rhode Island teachers who were fired for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine have been offered their jobs back with full back pay after reaching a settlement with the school district, writes Tyler Durden in Zero Hedge.
  • “Giro d’Italia tightens COVID-19 rules after rider tests positive” – Covid panic appears to have set in at Italy’s premier cycling event as Cycling News reports that masking orders are in place.  
  • “Share your Covid story with the community” – An app from Collateral Global allows you to add stories about how the Covid response impacted you personally.
  • “Widening ULEZ won’t cut lung cancer rates” – TfL-commissioned review responds after Keir Starmer warned Londoners risk getting disease without expansion of hated £12.50-a-day scheme, reports MailOnline.
  • “The EPA’s death warrant for fossil fuel plants” – The agency’s draft rules would undermine the American power system as we know it, says Emmet Penney in the Spectator U.S. Edition.
  • “Victory for Diddly Squat? Rishi Sunak vows to free farmers from planning red tape when converting barns to farm shops (after Jeremy Clarkson’s huge rows with his local council)” – The Prime Minister set out plans to make it easier for British farmers to diversify their incomes, such as through setting up farm shops on their land, reports MailOnline.
  • “The working-class revolt against Net Zero” – Danish truckers are the latest workers to rise up against eco-authoritarianism, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
  • “This AI hoax should terrify woke journalists” – If a chatbot can churn out hard-hitting think-pieces about why everything on Earth is racist, they’ll soon be out of a job, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
  • “What I told NatCon London” – Matt Goodwin shares the speech he gave at National Conservatism Conference in London.
  • “DEI goes wobbly” – Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), like trans activism and ‘defund the police’ before it, is falling out of favour with the American people, says Abe Greenwald in Commentary.
  • “Salman Rushdie attacks ‘comical’ efforts to make James Bond politically correct” – Freedom of speech has never been so under threat, author warns as he attacks reworking of books by Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming, according to the Telegraph.
  • “The tide is turning against cancel culture” – The change has left many on the Left who thought they were on “the right side of history” with much to reflect upon, says Iain Macwhirter in the Times.
  • “An anatomy of the British war on woke” – Toby and Noah take some heat – alongside some other known heretics like Calvin Robinson, Douglas Murray and anyone with a byline in Spiked – in this journal article by Huw C. Davies and Sheena E. MacRae published in Race and Class.
  • “The results are in – and something is going very right in English schools” – Amidst all the difficulties schools currently face, the results from the 2021 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) released today are a ray of sunshine, writes Mark Lehain in CAPX.
  • “Won’t somebody please think of the children?” – What we leave our posterity defines us as a civilisation, says Ed West.
  • “What neither side gets right about Jordan Neely’s death” – Many of the people who argued vehemently against giving men the benefit of the doubt during MeToo now expect women to shrug off menacing men on the subway, says Kat Rosenfield in the Free Press.
  • “Social media platforms ‘could be forced to tackle misogyny’” – Social media companies could be fined for failing to remove misogynistic abuse from their sites under the Online Safety Bill, it has been claimed, reports to the Times.
  • “Miller Lite scrubs ‘woke’ feminist advertisement from social media after backlash” – The American beer giant is seemingly trying to cover up it’s woke advert from March in the wake of Bud Light’s notorious Dylan Mulvaney marketing debacle, reports the Post Millennial.
  • “Now Naked Attraction is pushing trans lunacy” – Popular culture now treats extreme gender ideology as incontestable fact, writes James Esses in Spiked.
  • “Bud Light plans rebrand after trans advert backfires” – The company that owns Bud Light could redesign its bottles to recover from a disastrous advertising campaign last month that featured a transgender influencer, according to the Times.
  • “Why is my gender research being cancelled?” – Activists are taking over prestigious journals, says J. Michael Bailey in UnHerd.
  • “Sorority sues U.S. university over admitting trans woman who got ‘aroused in their company’” – Seven women at University of Wyoming called on judge to declare membership of 21 year-old Artemis Langford void, reports the Telegraph.
  • “‘Nationalism’ sounds different, depending on the country you’re in” – Watch Douglas Murray’s address to the National Conservatism Conference in London.

"I see no reason why every other country in the world should be prevented from feeling pride in itself because the Germans mucked up twice in a century."

–@DouglasKMurray at the #NatConUK gala dinner pic.twitter.com/XrxQ2mlrqW

— National Conservatism (@NatConTalk) May 16, 2023

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