News Round-Up

• “Germany announces new Covid measures for fall, expecting another wave of infections” – The German Government has presented its plans for new Covid measures over the winter months, CNBC reports. They involve a lot of mask wearing! Eugyppius gives voice to his anger here
• “New systematic review claims masks work. No way.” – “That is preposterous,” writes Steve Kirsch as he lays into a new systematic review of mask studies which claims that masks “provide nearly a 90% risk reduction of getting infected”
• “A New Low in Mask Studies” – “It’s a masterpiece of bad ‘science,’ poor methodology, and purposeful misdirection,” writes Ian Miller as he takes aim at the same review for the Brownstone Institute
• “As vaccine toll rises, Twitter doubles down… but the edifice is starting to crumble” – “Twitter remains determined to silence communication of vaccine injuries,” writes Kathy Gyngell in TCW Defending Freedom, but “the omerta is thankfully breaking elsewhere”
• “The murky road to lockdown – Part Two: The deeply sinister way ahead” – TCW Defending Freedom publishes the second of Paula Jardine’s articles on the lockdown policy, this one looking to the future
• “Al Gore compares ‘climate deniers’ to the Uvalde police” – Al Gore has compared ‘climate deniers’ with the police who failed to stop the Uvalde school shooter. Xin Du hits back at this “crass and asinine comparison” in Spectator Australia
• “Report Reveals the Climate Alarmists’ Propaganda Machine Is No Match for A Small Group of Honest Scientists and Academics” – The Institute for Strategic Dialogue has released a new report on ‘Climate disinformation’ and it reads more like “an admission their climate alarmist propaganda has failed” says Rhoda Wilson on the Exposé
• “Pass energy costs on to consumers to encourage them to save power, says IMF” – The IMF has told Governments that they should let consumer energy bills rise in order to encourage energy saving, according to the Telegraph
• “Britain’s lights will go off this winter” – “Our dependence on renewable energy is a major problem,” says Philip Pilkington in UnHerd
• “Could rising energy bills spell the end of working from home?” – MailOnline calculates that workers will start heading back to the office this winter as travelling to the office ends up cheaper than heating a home for the working day
• “Germany (still) refuses to go nuclear” – Germany’s light are going out but its Government still intends to proceed with shutting down the country’s three remaining nuclear power plants, writes Katya Hoyer on UnHerd
• “You don’t have to be Mr Toad to think that Mark Drakeford’s 20 mph Welsh speed limit is mad” – “Sure, let’s have slower traffic where appropriate,” says Ross Clark in the Telegraph, “but blanket limits will just strangle the economy”
• “People with ‘extreme hatred of Britain’ could be deradicalised under Prevent scheme” – Rishi Sunak plans to widen the definition of extremism to include people who have an “extreme hatred of Britain”, according to the Telegraph. Does this mean Guardian columnists would be referred to Prevent?
• “Diversity zealots have created a dangerous new religion – we must get serious about taking them on” – A broadside on diversity dogma, delivered by Suella Braverman M.P. in Mail+
• “New Civil Liberties Alliance joins lawsuit against Biden administration for Big Tech censorship collusion” – The New Civil Liberties Alliance, representing Dr. Martin Kulldorff and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, has joined a lawsuit challenging government-directed censorship of Covid topics on social media, Reclaim The Net reports
• “David Davis: ‘Government poorly understands its Online Safety Bill’” – The Christian Institute highlights David Davis’s recent warning that “the real danger lies with the subtle pressures on free speech that the Bill will impose”
• “The Left’s Suppression of Speech” – Dennis Prager joins Wall Street Journal Editor-at-Large Gerry Baker on the latest episode of Free Expression to explain why there is so much censorship of conservative speech by the left
• “Why does the New York Times keep putting the boot into Brexit Britain” – “Ever since Britain had the temerity to vote for Brexit six years ago, the New York Times, America’s most prestigious newspaper, has had it in for us,” writes Andrew Neil in the Daily Mail
• “How ‘The Blob’ smothered the Tavistock scandal” – “The civil service is determined to crush any dissent against gender ideology,” says Sam Ashworth-Hayes in Spiked
• “When did memes become a police matter?” – “We need to put our dim-witted, would-be Stasi back in its box,” writes Simon Evans in Spiked
• “The collapse of the ‘diversity’ industry can’t come soon enough” – Far from promoting racial cohesion, hyper-political HR activists have normalised racism in the workplace, writes Inaya Folarin Iman in the Telegraph
• “The ISIR Vienna affair” – Dr. Noah Carl laments the cancellation of Emile Kirkergaad by the International Society for Intelligence Research
• “Forget dragons, Beowulf now takes on his biggest foe – a university trigger warning” – Students at the University of Aberdeen have been warned that myths and legends from the Middle Ages contain references to death, blood and eating disorders, the Telegraph reports. Who knew?
• “In defence of Beyonce” – “The singer was wrong to bow to criticism over her ‘offensive’ lyrics” argues Tom Slater in the Spectator
• “It doesn’t surprise me that they’ve finally decided to ditch it” – Toby tells Colin Brazier why he is “pleased to see the back” of taking the knee

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