News Round-Up

• “Boris Johnson reveals No. 10 is ‘keeping an eye’ on monkeypox” – Speaking in London Monday, the Prime Minister said: “So far the consequences don’t seem to be very serious but it’s important that we keep an eye on it,” reports the Mail.
• “Credit Suisse CEO Says We’ll Never Go Back to Office Full Time” – Credit Suisse Group AG Chief Executive Officer Thomas Gottstein doesn’t think banks will ever return to working full-time from the office, saying it’s “unrealistic and it is not what employees want”, Bloomberg reports.
• “Ex-WHO Scientist David Bell: Will New Pandemic Treaty Cause Permanent Lockdowns?” – Watch: With the World Health Organisation set to discuss a global pandemic treaty and far-reaching amendments to the 2005 International Health Regulations, the Epoch Times speaks to Dr. David Bell, an expert in global health and infectious disease about his concerns about an over-mighty WHO.
• “When the Dust Settles, with Professor Lucy Easthope” – Listen: Laura Dodsworth speaks to the U.K.’s leading authority on recovering from disaster about her new book and why the U.K. Government deviated from existing pandemic plans when COVID-19 struck.
• “Could the West handle true austerity?” – Deprived of his stimulants, forced into a situation of compulsory cold-turkey, modern man would be furious that his bread and circuses have been taken away from him, writes Luke Perry in Bournbrook.
• “CDC Now Recommends COVID-19 Testing for All Domestic Air Travel, Including the Vaccinated” – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recommending that all domestic travelers undergo COVID-19 testing before and after they travel – regardless of vaccination status, the Epoch Times reports.
• “Meet the new thought police: the ‘Orwellian’ researchers working to pathologise dissent” – A New Zealand research group funded by the Government is warning that people critical of the Government are a danger to society, according to the Looking Glass.
• “Slammin’ the JAMA – Studied Mis-use of Covid Data” – The Journal of the American Medical Association hides elevated, persistent, non-Covid excess mortality. What is going on, asks D.V. Williamson.
• “College where teacher died of Covid broke health laws, report finds” – A college where teacher Donna Coleman, 42, died of COVID-19 has become the first education sector employer in Great Britain found to have to breached health and safety laws during the pandemic, the Mail reports.
• “Did monkeypox leak from Wuhan?” – The initial evidence suggests not, but the fact that the question is being asked shows the damage to trust brought about by lies and secrecy, says Michael Simmons in the Spectator.
• “Real-World Hong Kong Study Reveals Antivirals Benefit COVID-19 Hospitalised Patients” – TrialSite News reports that the investigational team found that against Omicron BA.2, initiation of both Paxlovid and Molnupiravir were associated with lower risks of disease progression and all-cause mortality while also helping patients to achieve low viral load faster.
• “Joe Biden: U.S. would defend Taiwan militarily if China attacked” – The U.S. president warned Beijing would be “flirting with danger” if it tried to seize the democratic island by force, in the latest escalation of rhetoric, the Telegraph reports.
• “Henry Kissinger warns against the defeat of Russia as Western unity on sanctions frays badly” – The former U.S. Secretary of State urges Ukraine to cede territory to Putin in order to end the war, reports the Telegraph.
• “Millions ‘marching to starvation’ as Putin unleashes global food catastrophe” – Vladimir Putin’s blockade of Ukrainian ports “is a declaration of war on global food security,” a top UN official has warned, as 43m people are “knocking on starvation’s door” without exports from Europe’s breadbasket, the Telegraph reports.
• “Green radicals are ravaging mainstream parties” – As the Australian election results show, both the traditional Right and Left suffer at the hands of these unsatisfied activist-politicians, writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
• “HSBC banker who criticised climate ‘nut jobs’ was right about a lot of things” – The City’s mania for ‘ESG’ is stifling debate and will stop us from solving the world’s problems, says Ben Wright in the Telegraph.
• “How the big banks fell to climate panic” – Capital markets ought to be able to reflect reality: to price the underlying value of an asset, such as an oil company, or to weigh up how risky an investment bet may be, but thanks to ESG, the markets have made themselves incapable of doing this job, writes Andrew Orlowski in Spiked.
• “Dragging kids to the library” –  “Let drag queens flourish, is my motto,” writes Dr. Roger Watson at the New Conservative. “But let’s confine them to pantomimes and adult entertainment. Our kids have suffered enough.”
• “NYC Mayor Eric Adams says online platforms need to use AI to censor” – “We did it to Donald Trump on Twitter. So why aren’t we doing it to the everyday people?” he asks. And he calls himself a liberal.
• “Does Twitter believe in free speech?” – Secretly recorded videos suggest not, writes Damian Reilly in the Spectator.
• “Teach about dead white men or Shakespeare’s works will vanish from classrooms, schools warned” – Katharine Birbalsingh, a London headteacher, tells teachers not to drop classic texts for the sake of a ‘decolonised’ curriculum, according to the Telegraph.
• “Wolf-whistle ban would harm women’s rights” –Making everyday sexism a crime will only trivialise harassment, create wariness between sexes and waste police time, argues Clare Foges in the Times.
• “Now the Government wants to tag protestors” – If this Parliamentary term will be remembered for anything, it will be the repeated attacks on individual freedom. From the Government that brought you vaccine passports and the Online Safety Bill, we now have a new Public Order Bill that includes plans to electronically tag innocent people for attending protests, writes Mark Johnson in UnHerd.

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