News Round-Up

• “GPs still ignoring orders to allow patients face-to-face appointments” – Access to practices remains unchanged despite health officials ordering all surgeries to abandon a system of total triage, reports the Telegraph.
• “The Government must act now to avoid a winter lockdown” – Concerns that this winter will see a bad flu year are compounded by doubts over the effectiveness of vaccines against the Delta variant, reports the Telegraph.
• “Vaccine Deaths Pile Up Without Media Coverage” – “The media now is largely ignoring the thousands dying from the experimental Covid vaccines,” writes Joel S. Hirschhorn in Trial Site.
• “School bubbles will return after just two Covid cases, says union” – Headteachers are prepared to revive the controversial system which kept thousand of pupils out of class and was scrapped in July, reports the Telegraph.
• “Those Anti-Covid Plastic Barriers Probably Don’t Help and May Make Things Worse” – Intuitions tells us a plastic shield would be protective against germs. But scientists who study aerosols, air flow and ventilation say that much of the time, the barriers don’t help and probably give people a false sense of security, reports DNYUZ.
• “Mummy Juanita, your sacrifice is needed” – For the Chinese, the climate emergency is a huge win-win, writes Judith Sloan in the Spectator Australia.
• “Living in the Age of Covid: ‘The Power of the Powerless‘” – “A specter is haunting the world: the increasing prospect of a new totalitarianism under the extended covid response,” writes Michael Rectenwald in the Mises Institute blog.
• “The man who lost Afghanistan” – “If there was one family in Afghanistan who incarnated the hopes, illusions and failures of the last two decades there, it was the Ghanis,” writes Will Lloyd in UnHerd.
• “President Biden must be held to account for the humiliating exit from Afghanistan” – “Our presence in Afghanistan could not go on indefinitely, but the exit needed to be handled in the right way,” writes Andrew Rosindell MP in Bournbrook Magazine.
• “Why do many Afghans support the Taliban’s extreme version of sharia law?” – For most of history, sharia law looked little like the extreme version promoted by the Taliban today, writes James E. Baldwin in the Telegraph.
• “Why did Sadiq Khan’s office fire me?” – Was it for my views on trans women being allowed in refuges, asks Joan Smith in UnHerd.
• “Greta Thunberg is right” – The way the U.K. compiles its emissions data is a sham, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “Who Fact Checks the Fact Checkers? A Report on Media Censorship” – “When we see fact checkers like NewsGuard, who not only fail to uphold their high-sounding principles but even publicly encourage working with the Government to suppress speech, we should raise red flags,” write Phillip W. Magness and Ethan Yang in AIER.
• “No, boardroom diversity does not mean higher profits” – Beware of the temptation to accept research just because it supports a view we would like to be true, writes Alex Edmans in the Telegraph.
• “Globe gives audience trigger warnings over ‘upsetting’ Romeo and Juliet” – London’s Globe Theatre will alert the audience before performances that suicide, drug use and fake blood feature in a production of Romeo and Juliet, reports MailOnline.
• “A Better Anti-Racism” – We must insist that what we have in common is more important than what divides us. Our ability to remedy racial injustice depends on it, writes Coleman Hughes.
• “Save women from this new age of woke history” – It’s frustrating that every historical figure must now conform to some modern and improving message, writes Laura Freeman in the Telegraph.
• “Even my bigoted critics deserve free speech” – “An academic has been sacked over tweets calling me a ‘house negro’,” writes Calvin Robinson in Spiked. “This is nothing to celebrate.”
• “Billionaire inventor Sir James Dyson has called for an end to home working and a return to the office” – Mike Graham says on talkRADIO: “He’s right. You cannot leave the office and expect to have the same standard at home. Start with the Government.”