News Round-Up

• “Now schools bring back masks amid Britain’s Covid resurgence” – Some schools in England are bringing back masks due to rising Covid absences with one school in West Yorkshire writing to parents urging them to send their child to class with a face covering, the Mail reports.
• “Online child sex abuse increases by a fifth in one year” – New police figures raise concerns that paedophiles have been exploiting the pandemic, when more young people spent longer online at home, the Telegraph reports.
• “Mike Ashley’s Frasers bans working from home as staff caught slacking on social media” – Mike Ashley’s Frasers has banned staff from working from home on Fridays after some employees were caught posting too often on social media, reports the Telegraph.
• “Secrets of the Pandemic” – A run-down of “little-known aspects of the coronavirus pandemic” from the Swiss Doctor.
• “All you need to know to understand why the ONS data on mortality by vaccine status is systemically flawed” – You don’t need to look very hard into the latest ONS data on deaths by vaccination status to confirm that they are so obviously flawed due to miscategorisation, missing vaccine deaths and underestimates of the unvaccinated population to be worthless, write Norman Fenton and Martin Neil on Probability and Risk.
• “WA playing politics at the border?” – In Western Australia, a state Government minister has been accused of allegedly preferencing political donors for border entry during the Covid pass approval process, writes Rocco Loiacono in Spectator Australia.
• “The sublime cynicism of the press for ‘Omicron-specific’ Covid vaccines” – Alex Berenson writes that, as has happened so many times in the last two years, the reporting around the Omicron boosters has been weirdly monochromatic.
• “A look at public-private informational control” – The states’ Attorney Generals are breaking through the propaganda and getting some answers, says El Gato Malo.
• “SADS – Sponsored by the Medical Establishment” – Rusere Shoniwa takes a probing look into SADS, or Sudden Adult Death Syndrome, and the establishment’s relationship with it in Left Lockdown Sceptics.
• “Should you get the Novavax vaccine?” – Steve Kirsch sets out why he doesn’t trust the new vaxx on the block.
• “Democrats are Big Fans of Trump’s Early Covid Response” – Great Barrington veterans Martin Kulldorff and Jay Bhattacharya write in Brownstone that Drs. Birx and Redfield failed to protect older Americans from COVID-19 and failed to protect everyone, especially the children.
• “Deborah Birx’s Guide to Destroying A Country From Within” – Michael Senger in Brownstone examines the extraordinary lockdown radicalism built on fantasy and falsehood of key White House official Dr. Deborah Birx.
• “As the NHS shut down, the wealthy chose to die at home” – The latest on the deaths data from Michael Simmons at the Spectator, oddly suggesting that the main problem is the “inequality gap” of richer people “choosing to die at home” while poorer people are “forced into hospitals” rather than the surely more salient fact that thousands more people are dying than usual of causes besides Covid.
• “NATO’s Ukraine crusade hits the buffers of reality” – Donald Forbes in TCW Defending Freedom writes that while Putin made a mistake if he thought he could walk over Ukraine, Biden made one with much vaster consequences, “launching a proxy war when he knew Putin had his finger on the on/off energy switch”.
• “Sir Patrick Vallance warns MPs that the world is about to be plunged into even deeper crisis than it was during the Covid pandemic – because of climate change” – Sir Patrick Vallance warned MPs in a briefing that we face “50 years of really big problems relating to climate” compared to the two-and-a-half-year pandemic, reports the Mail.
• “Eco-extremism has brought Sri Lanka to its knees” – An obsession with organic farming ‘in sync with nature’ triggered an unsustainable but predictable economic crisis, writes Matt Ridley in the Telegraph.
• “What happens when you re-join Twitter? Its liberal bias really shines through” – Twitter’s extreme bias against conservatives and media outlets it doesn’t like rages on, says Adriana Cohen at the New York Post, and she says she has the screenshots to prove it.
• “Town carnival is forced to issue apology for ‘transphobic’ float.” – Trans stand-up comedian Donna Landy attended the Great Torrington Mayfair and Carnival in Devon back in May and blasted a float for being “offensive”, reports the Mail.
• “Free speech ‘stifled’ as universities cancel record number of speakers” – A “deeply worrying trend” emerges as nearly 200 requests for events were rejected in a year, the Telegraph reports.
• “Less Sour Grapes” – Roger Watson writes for Country Squire that the only people who do not get interrupted on the BBC Today programme are the representatives of the woke brigade – the “bleating climate change fanatics, intersectionalists and Covid orthodox”.
• “Parents must resist Stonewall’s gospel” – Mary Wakefield in the Spectator says that by now it’s becoming horribly apparent to parents of every political persuasion that they can’t sit out the culture wars.
• “Where is the outrage over Telford?” – Once again, fear of racism is leading to a muted response, writes Kristina Murkett in UnHerd.
• “Telford and the moral depravity of political correctness” – The grooming-gang scandal shows us that there is nothing noble about silencing uncomfortable truths, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
• “Why the Tories are more diverse than Labour” – Ed West in the Speccie with a subtle analysis of the sometimes unexpected role of ethnicity in politics.
• “Why it has to be Kemi” – Rod Liddle in the Spectator on why the new PM must be anti-woke, and why Kemi Badenoch in particular fits the bill.
• “Will the penny finally drop about morphing Mordaunt?” – Michael St. George shreds the pretensions of Penny in TCW Defending Freedom. See also Toby’s tweets looking into her excruciatingly woke book that reads like a leadership pitch – for the Labour Party.

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