News Round-Up

• “Covid care home restrictions in Scotland caused harm, says report” – Scottish Covid Inquiry researchers say lockdown restrictions may have contributed to some deaths, reports BBC News.
• “Pharmacies could send you for cancer check without need for GP” – High street workers are to be trained to spot symptoms in a drive for early diagnosis, cutting out the need for an appointment with a doctor, reports the Telegraph.
• “Moderna’s Covid jab more likely to trigger myocarditis than Pfizer’s” – The Mail reports that the U.S. FDA has approved Moderna ‘s Covid vaccine for children aged six to 17 years, despite acknowledging the risk of heart injury.
• “EU COVID Certificate: MEPs and Council agree to extend rules for another year” – Parliament and EU member states’ negotiators have agreed to keep the EU Digital Covid Certificate framework in place for another year, until June 2023.
• “China using fake Covid alerts to stop people staging protests” – The Telegraph reports that health code apps are being manipulated to send red ‘quarantine’ signals to those attending protests against a freeze on bank deposits.
• “TOWIE stars return to London after being booted off flight and spoken to by police for refusing to wear masks and vaping on the plane” – The Mail reports that the TV personalities, who had flown to the Dominican Republic to film the new series, were seen arriving in Stansted Airport after one revealed that they were removed from the plane for, among other things, refusing to wear masks.
• “EU Goes All-In on mRNA Vaccines, Reserves Capacity for Next Pandemic” – A announcement on tendering shows that for the EU mRNA vaccines are the future, writes Robert Kogon at Brownstone.
• “Unions are forcing Britain into a lockdown against its will” – Civil servants are at home, flights are grounded and the Government is caving in to union barons – it’s 2020 all over again, groans Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
• “The Incredible Persistence of the Myth of Masking” – Experts, the media and politicians around the world panicked and inflicted masking on the population; it didn’t work, writes Ian Miller at Brownstone.
• “Bret Weinstein Speaks with Dr. Robert Malone” – Watch Bret speak with Dr. Robert Malone in Bath, England, nearly a year after their first podcast together.
• “Is the western boycott of Russian oil backfiring?” – Ross Clark writes in the Spectator that while it might be right to boycott Russian oil and gas, at some point we will have to ask if the pain is worth it given the rest of the world is actually increasing its consumption of Russian fossil fuels.
• “Pope Francis: NATO may have provoked Russian invasion of Ukraine (but I’m not pro-Putin)” – The pontiff makes an unexpectedly non-partisan intervention, insisting there are “no good guys and bad guys” in the conflict, according to the Telegraph.
• “Guardian: Sky News Australia is a global hub for climate misinformation” – Eric Worrall on Watts Up With That? writes that the Guardian has featured the views of a think tank which claims that Sky News Australia has allowed “junk science, climate delayism and attacks on high-profile individuals working on the climate crisis to become mainstreamed”.
• “New Data Absolutely Destroys Media Claims of ‘Climate Change is Causing More Wildfire’” – If CO₂ was in fact the control knob for making wildfires worse, wildfires would have increased from 2012 to 2018 rather than dropping dramatically, says Anthony Watts in Watts Up With That?
• “Cambridge dons balk at giving ‘mutual respect’” – Cambridge dons are opposing a new policy that would require them to be respectful of differing opinions, even those they consider ridiculous, reports the Times.
• “After Muslim cinema protests, will it soon be blasphemy to believe in free speech?” – Free speech was once a Left-wing cause, writes Adam Tomkins in the Herald.
• “English language upholds ‘white superiority’, academics told” – The Telegraph reports that the Open University’s ‘anti-racist’ staff training course has been criticised as a “sad reflection of woke brainwashing”.
• “Author who claimed white male writers having trouble finding work is ‘form of racism’ sparks free speech debate” – James Patterson is one of the world’s most successful authors, having reportedly sold nearly 450 million books, says GB News.
• “Cambridge is succumbing to the woke virus” – Many were hopeful that free speech had been saved by the dons, but now the HR onslaught has begun again, says David Abulafia in the Telegraph.
• “Hollywood is fighting for its life – so let the executive bloodbaths begin” – The Telegraph reports that the merciless sacking of a beloved British Disney boss has sent shockwaves through the film industry – and it’s rumoured it was because he dragged the company into the woke culture conflict with the Florida state Government.
• “Let’s get the hell out of the ECHR” – The court’s blocking of the first flight to Rwanda is a grave assault on British democracy, whatever your views on the policy, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Two Words to Win the Woke Wars: Depriving the destructive identity politics movement of oxygen” – Cancel culture and extreme identity politics are having a chilling effect on free speech and meritocracy, while costing the country billions in bureaucratic waste, says Brainfart Policy.

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