News Round-Up

• “Health officials back Omicron-specific booster jab for the Autumn” – The Mail reports that GPs in Britain have been told that the NHS is preparing to start its booster campaign on September 1st, with officials expressing a “definite interest” in a new Moderna vaccine.
• “Covid returns to Wuhan as Xi praises China’s Zero Covid policy” – A pair of port workers in Wuhan have shown signs of asymptomatic infection in the most recent confirmed cases in the Chinese city where the virus first emerged in 2019, reports the Mail.
• “Save our babies from the jab” – TCW Defending Freedom publishes in full the letter from 78 U.K. doctors to the Medical and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) setting out comprehensive reasons why infants must not be jabbed in Britain.
• “Covid shots for little kids are DOA” – Alex Berenson is glad to report that despite fawning media coverage, uptake of the vaccine for infants has been pitifully low.
• “The Insufferable Arrogance of the Constantly Wrong” – Clayton Fox in Brownstone with a detailed rundown of all the messages from mainstream scientists and media that even they had to subsequently admit were false.
• “Are pockets of Covid in the gut causing long-term symptoms?” – Scientists are investigating whether reservoirs of virus ‘hiding’ in the body are contributing to Long Covid, according to the Guardian.
• “The End of Political and Ideological Allegiances” – Dr. Pierre Kory in Brownstone says that tribalism and polarisation have made our political and medical discourse nasty and divisive, but doctors must be kept above the partisan fray.
• “On Covid, schools, and the death of the liberal expert class” – Alex Berenson summarises analysis in the New Yorker that found opposition to school closures, mask mandates and lockdowns marked the beginning of new political movements and divisions in the U.S.
• “Is the West really prepared to pay the price of defeating Putin?” – One minute the pundits believe Ukraine will win, the next we are warned that Russia is winning. But what does ‘victory’ mean – and is the West really prepared to pay its price, asks Professor Mark Galeotti in the Times.
• “Prepare for gas rationing this winter, factories told” – The National Grid warns it may have to impose “involuntary” restrictions on supplies, according to the Telegraph.
• “Satellite Data: coolest monthly tropics temperature in over 10 years” – The latest monthly global temperature update from Dr. Roy Spencer on Watts Up With That? See also Christopher Monckton’s write-up: “The New Pause Lengthens to 7 Years 10 Months”.
• “Antarctic fish growing grotesque skin tumours thanks to climate change” – Report in the Mail on a bizarre study which claims the fish’s ocean habitat is warming for the first time in 20 million years – even though global temperatures were warmer than the present as recently as a few hundred years ago.
• “‘We have to drive a lot less’, says Chris Boardman, the PM’s new travel tsar” – The Telegraph reports that the ex-Olympic gold medallist has been given £2bn to encourage motorists out of their cars – the Government spending even more money it doesn’t have.
• “Jacob Rees-Mogg scraps ‘absurd’ Civil Service diversity training” – The minister says departments must provide courses that actually help people in their daily work, not “wokery”, reports the Telegraph. Good luck with that.
• “Single-sex lavatories to be mandatory in all new public buildings” – Kemi Badenoch, the Equalities Minister, insisted it is legal and “important” to provide separate facilities for men and women, the Telegraph reports.
• “Scout Association faces backlash over new ‘trans fun’ badge for members as young as four years old which have been slammed as ‘inappropriate’” – Youngsters were also offered a “bisexual fun badge”, a “lesbian fun badge” and a “Pride fun badge”, reports the Mail.
• “The Church of England is obsessed with racial self-flagellation” – Michael Mosbacher writes for the Spectator that the Church of England has been displaying distinctly masochistic tendencies of late, with the latest race report telling the Church to make amends and offer “reparation and redress” for assets it may have accumulated originating from the profits of slavery.
• “How the BBC was captured by trans ideology” – The Corporation has forgotten about its duty to be impartial, says Charlie Walsham in the Spectator.
• “Human rights and legal wrongs” – Niall Gooch in the Critic asks why British legislation doesn’t protect free speech.
• “How the smoking ban ruined Britain” – It’s been open season on our lifestyle choices ever since, says Christopher Snowdon in Spiked.
• “‘Victory for transparency’: Oxford University must reveal Stonewall’s influence over its policies” – Scores on diversity efforts from the controversial workplace scheme must be disclosed, the Information Commissioner has ruled, according to the Telegraph.
• “Ideology has poisoned the West” – We are living through a dictatorship of ineptitude, says Jacob Howland in UnHerd.

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