News Round-Up

• “U.K. Covid cases may have peaked for this year, study suggests” – Data from Zoe study shows fall in under 18s but cases still rising in older people, reports the Guardian.
• “When fear leads to tyranny” – Democracy is being quietly redefined, says Jonathan Sumption in UnHerd.
• “Covid and the malaise of human rights” – Human rights advocates have been silent about state restrictions on fundamental freedoms during the pandemic, writes David McGrogan in Law & Liberty.
• “Doctor banned from social media in ‘masks do nothing’ row takes his case to High Court” – Freedom of expression battle after GP appeals against conditions imposed on him following video in which he complained about Covid restrictions, reports the Telegraph.
• “Costly PCR tests no longer needed, says top scientist” – “Britain’s mass PCR testing programme has become a ‘money-making exercise’ for private laboratories and has outlived its usefulness, a leading scientist has said,” reports the Times.
• “Pfizer’s Covid pill cuts deaths and hospitalisations by 89%” – Experts said the drug could mark a ‘new era’ in preventing serious Covid infection, reports the Telegraph.
• “U.K. approval of molnupiravir may create new and more dangerous Covid variants” – The potential mutagenic effects of molnupiravir on Covid itself are a danger to population health, and a glaring blindspot for the review committees involved, argues William A. Haseltine in Forbes.
• “Covid cases & deaths skyrocket in Germany as breakthrough infections on the rise” – “Although Germany is nearly 70% fully vaccinated and the overwhelming majority of people 18 and up are immunized, the number of Covid cases now skyrockets as a fourth wave sweeps through Germany,” reports Trialsite.
• “U.S. condemns 28 million children to needless Covid jab” – 28 million U.S. children are now eligible to be vaccinated even when the facts say they shouldn’t be, argues Kathy Gyngell in TCW.
• “Are the ‘vaccines’ safe and effective?” – The editor of the BMJ, Dr. Peter Doshi, gives evidence to an expert panel on Covid vaccine mandates and injuries.
• “Covid: how long does vaccine based immunity last?” – Here I discuss a fascinating Swedish study that shows how good the Covid vaccines are in the real world, how long their effect lasts, and whether or not boosting makes sense, writes Sebastian Rushworth.
• “UKHSA efficacy stats death watch: week 44” – Slow-motion meltdown at the U.K. Health Security Agency as the numbers they’ve locked themselves into publishing just continue to be bad, writes Eugyppius in his latest Substack update.
• “A review and autopsy of two Covid immunity studies” – “I have never before seen such a large discrepancy between studies that are supposed to answer the same question. In this article, I carefully dissect both studies, describe how the analyses differ, and explain why the Israeli study is more reliable,” writes Martin Kulldorff for the Brownstone Institute.
• “Man vs the elite” – S.D. Wickett, Michael Curzon and Luke Perry discuss COP26 and the latest Covid stories in Bournbrook Magazine’s regular podcast.
• “Climate change to be taught to schoolchildren as young as five in major shake-up” – Children as young as five will be taught about climate change during science lessons for the first time under changes being made to the curriculum, reports the Express.
• “We’ll all pay for turning big oil into a pariah” – Nobody is standing up to the hysteria of green activists and admitting: we still need hydrocarbons, writes Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
• “COP26 was riddled with hypocrisy” – “It’s the stinking hypocrisy that sticks in my craw, the ‘do as I say, not as I do’ arrogance of all this,” writes Richard Littlejohn in the Mail.
• “Coal keeps lights on at COP26 as low wind strikes again” – On November 3rd 2021, a lack of wind power led to skyrocketing costs on the GB Balancing Mechanism. Only fossil fuels saved the day, reports John Constable in Net Zero Watch.
• “Stop calling climate change a ‘war’ – it is the opposite” – Governments and activists are using martial language to bully us into accepting policies without scrutiny, argues Ryan Bourne in the Telegraph.
• “The climate scaremongers: a weekly round-up” – Paul Homewood exposes some of the falsehoods and hysterical predictions peddled by the climate alarmist lobby in TCW.
• “Inconvenient truths behind climate change hysteria” – The roots of today’s green movement are profoundly anti-human, argues Melanie Phillips in her latest Substack update.
• “‘You are looking at the American dream’: ex-Marine Winsome Sears’ Virginia victory speech” – Winsome Sears gave this speech in full Tuesday night after becoming the first female African-American to be elected Virginia Lieutenant Governor.
• “Be wary of comparing Covid rates in England with other countries” – Professor Carl Henegan speaks to TalkRadio: “two weeks ago everyone was looking at how well Europe was doing but yesterday Germany reported its highest case load ever.”