News Round-Up

• “From clapping to sacking – 18 months in the life of a nurse” – The anonymous account of a nurse on a virtual Covid ward, published in Laura Dodsworth’s latest Substack update.
• “Covid pass use in Wales extended to cover cinemas, theatres, and concert halls” – Plans to extend the use of Covid passes were agreed by the Senedd and the measures will come in from November 15th, reports WalesOnline.
• “Anxiety during pandemic mentally aged over 50s by six years, memory study finds” – Largest dip in memory and attention were in people with moderate or higher levels of anxiety and depression during first year of Covid, reports the Telegraph.
• “The courts are backing the Covid vaccine madness” – “It seems that the vaccine juggernaut is unstoppable, despite growing evidence of irreparable harms and even death,” says Sally Beck, who reports on the judicial system siding with the Government on mandatory vaccination in TCW.
• “Resisting tyranny depends on the courage to not conform” – “The price of abdicating our responsibility is high. As Browning puts it, Germans paid a high price for ‘placing uncritical trust in the ‘firm leadership’ of seemingly well-intentioned political authority between 1933 and 1945′,” writes Barry Brownstein for the American Institute for Economic Research.
• “Florida, centre of Covid mandate resistance, has lowest infection levels in U.S.” – Florida is jointly tied with Georgia and Hawaii for the lowest count of cases per 100,000 people out of all U.S. states, reports Newsweek.
• “Florida flight attendant describes ‘vaccination coercion’ at DeSantis anti-mandate press conference” – “A veteran Florida flight attendant who says she was coerced by her employer into getting a Covid vaccine called it a betrayal of her faith and the ‘worst decision of my life’, adding that side effects continue to plague her,” reports RT.
• “Massive crowd gathers in Los Angeles to protest strict vaccine mandates” – “A huge crowd of Covid vaccine mandate critics, some of them city workers, protested outside City Hall in Los Angeles on Monday to voice objection to an incoming Covid inoculation requirement,” reports RT.
• “France tells people under 30 years-old not to get the Moderna vaccine” – French public health officials are now warning people under 30 years-old not to get the Moderna vaccine over concerns about rare heart inflammation, reports the Mail.
• “Analysis of all-cause mortality by week in Canada 2010-2021” – “There was no Covid pandemic, and there is strong evidence of response-caused deaths in the most elderly and in young males,” declare Denis G. Rancourt, Marine Baudin and Jérémie Mercier in ResearchGate.
• “Not hypocrites, elites” – “It is a demonstration to their subjects, to fellow oligarchs and to would-be opponents, that they have enough power and control to spurn every rule they set out,” argues Alexanders Adams, who hypothesises the true symbolism of COP26 in Bournbrook Magazine.
• “Halt net stupid – the message from the doorstep” – Reform U.K. leader Richard Tice lists a series of policies and promises to the people of Old Bexley and Sidcup in preparation for the upcoming by-election in TCW.
• “Climate alarmism is doing terrible damage to the young” – Young people are told their lives are over before they’ve even begun, writes Emma Gilland in Spiked.
• “Sir Patrick Vallance warns climate change will kill more people than Covid” – The U.K.’s Chief Scientific Adviser called on the Government to take steps to ensure the “green choice is the easy choice,” reports the Telegraph.
• “Few willing to change lifestyle to save the planet, climate survey finds” – Poll of 10 countries including U.S., U.K., France and Germany finds people prioritising measures that are already habits, reports the Guardian.
• “Obama demands urgency on climate, but says nothing about carbon footprint of bombing campaigns” – “Ex-President Barack Obama tried to get in a few jabs at political opponents while sounding the climate-change alarm at COP26, but critics called him out for harming the planet with bombing campaigns and lavish lifestyle,” reports RT.
• “Big media is turning into big brother” – Sky News wants to socially re-engineer its viewers. Time to switch channels, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Therapists must be allowed to question gender identity” – “If children and young people are not ‘affirmed’ as being ‘born in the wrong body’, and given drugs that stop puberty and change their secondary sex characteristics, they are supposedly being put at risk of suicide,” writes Maya Forstater in UnHerd.
• “Up to the oche: an introduction to Bullseyes and Booze” – “We are dismayed by some of the recent (and some of the not-so recent) dress-room alterations imposed from above by faceless businessmen and bureaucratic desk personnel,” writes Bullseyes and Booze in an introduction to the new publication partly dedicated to challenging the woke changes made to the sport of darts.
• “Cambridge students demand renaming of library over link to imperialism” – “Students at Cambridge University have petitioned to rename a library which holds the name of a 19th century historian who defended imperialism, John Robert Seeley, despite his liberal views for the time,” reports RT.
• “The University of Austin puts the rest of academia to shame” – We need more universities committed to academic freedom and the pursuit of the truth, writes Joanna Williams in Spiked.
• “Goodnight Vienna” – “A brothel in Vienna is providing Covid vaccinations and giving those who take up the offer vouchers for a free visit,” reports Sky News.