News Round-Up

“Boris Johnson asked: ‘Why are we destroying the economy for people who will die anyway?’ during Covid” – Boris reportedly said “we’re killing the patient to tackle the tumour” in contemporaneous notes revealed at the Covid Inquiry, according to the Telegraph.
“Keeping the beaches open” – What did we learn about Boris Johnson’s Covid response from Didactic Dom, asks Robert Hutton in the Critic.
“We can’t lay all Covid blame at Boris’s door” – The costly Covid Inquiry is becoming a frenzied witch-hunt, unlikely to answer the most vital question: Was lockdown the right policy, writes Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
“‘Excess mortality’ continuing surge causes concerns” – Life insurance executives and actuaries believe excess mortality rates are alarming and could continue to drag earnings for years to come, according to InsuranceNewsNet.
“How U.K. Government advisers helped Pfizer win $5.95 billion U.S. Covid contract” – In TCW, Paula Jardine further explores the alleged quid pro quo between American funding for the Oxford AstraZeneca Covid vaccine and U.K. assistance in authorising the Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA vaccine.
“Police hold back pro-Palestinian protesters as Starmer leaves speech” – Police were forced to wrestle back demonstrators as they attempted to mob the Labour leader as he exited the Chatham House think tank in London, says the Mail.
“Israeli envoy wears yellow star before UN Security Council” – Israel’s Holocaust memorial body has criticised the country’s delegation to the UN for wearing yellow stars to a Security Council meeting, reports the Telegraph.
“Is Suella Braverman wrong about pro-Palestine ‘hate marches’?” – Take a step back, and it becomes apparent that the pro-Palestinian marches themselves are constructed on infrastructure of bigotry, writes Jake Wallis Simons in the Spectator.
“When did journalism become a hate crime?” – Spiked’s Fraser Myers on GB News’s Charlie Peters being reported to the police for investigating Islamic extremism.
“Not ‘just Hamas’” – Evidence suggests that Hamas, or at least its policy toward Jews, is popular among Palestinians, say Eugene Kontorovich and Erielle Davidson in City Journal.
“The normalisation of savagery” – Societies that give up on freedom will soon find it replaced by violence, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
“Islamism is a failed ideology. Muslims must embrace the West” – Those who came here to escape tyranny are now cheering the tyrants they left behind, says Hussain Abdul-Hussain in the Telegraph.
“The shameful silence of the ‘anti-racists’” – As antisemitism has surged, Britain’s ‘race equality’ charities have mostly looked the other way, writes Lauren Smith in Spiked.
“Moolah from mullahs” – Arab countries are bankrolling American colleges and universities, with Qatar and Saudi Arabia leading the pack, write Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky in City Journal.
“Miriam Cates blames increase in working women for rise in children going to school in nappies” – A Tory MP has blamed the rising number of women going out to work for an increase in infants going to school wearing nappies, reports the Telegraph.
“Ninety-nine percent? Re-examining the consensus on the anthropogenic contribution to climate change” – In Climate, Prof. Yonatan Dubi and others have detailed the flaws in the consensus study by Lynas et al, which (falsely) claimed the 99% consensus on the anthropogenic contribution to climate change.
“Greta Thunberg and her Gen Z friends owe Baby Boomers an apology over climate change” – Greta and friends say ‘older generations’ have let young people down. Yet a new poll on green lifestyle choices tells a very different story, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
“Indonesia shelves decarbonisation for prosperity and security” – The strategic utilisation of fossil fuels is a key factor at the centre of Indonesia’s growth, says Vijay Jayaraj in WUWT.
“Dictating words: The Culture-Control Left and the war against free speech” – The Institute of Economic Affairs has released a new report on the ‘Culture-Control Left’, exploring their composition, sources of inspiration and political agenda.
“Woke campaigners are using hate speech laws to stifle free speech” – An IEA report says elements of the Left have “successfully weaponised” concepts such as hate speech to “silence their political opponents”, reports the Mail.
“Council purges word ‘mother’ from pregnancy and maternity leave policy” – A council was accused of “writing out women” for purging the word ‘mother’ from its pregnancy and maternity leave policy to be more inclusive, says the Mail.
“Yayoi Kusama doesn’t need a race reckoning” – Who expects Yayoi Kusama, the 94 year-old grande dame of installation art, to be woke, asks Kat Rosenfield in UnHerd.
“Macron rejects gender-inclusive writing to ‘protect’ French language” – There’s been a long-standing debate between French Right-leaning language purists versus the Left and feminists, writes Vivian Song in the Telegraph.
“Academic dynamite” – Professors Alice Sullivan and Selina Todd’s new book, Sex and Gender: A Contemporary Reader, is an important, if difficult, contribution to debates around sex and gender, says Debbie Hayton in the Critic.
“‘Asexual rights’ and the endless quest for victimhood” – New forms of ‘oppression’ are being invented every week, writes Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
“The woke celebrities using their popularity to influence us” – The cult of celebrity has taken on a sinister new meaning in recent times, says Dr. Shane Fudge in TCW.
“Is the American Academy of Paediatrics placing its own members at risk?” – New lawsuits and a panel on gender and sexuality at the AAP’s recent conference signal trouble for paediatricians who rely on its guidance, writes Leor Sapir in City Journal.
“Canadian death cult” – America’s northern neighbour has euthanised tens of thousands of its citizens, says Michael Bonner in City Journal.
“The Vanguard interview: Peter Hitchens” – On Substack, Laura Dodsworth interviews Peter Hitchens about his new book, The War We Never Fought: The British Establishment’s Surrender to Drugs.

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