News Round-Up

• “Number unable to get a hospital appointment after GP referral up 50% in two years” – The Telegraph reports that NHS Digital figures show no appointments immediately available for 2.3 million referrals in the first six months of this year.
• “Britain really isn’t working – and the collapsing NHS is to blame” – Widespread staff shortages are being exacerbated by a healthcare system unable to cope with backlogs, says Tom Rees in the Telegraph.
• “Zero Covid has cost New Zealand dearly” – Dr. Jay Bhattacharya writes for Spiked that Jacinda Ardern was never the pandemic heroine she was made out to be.
• “Are Covid Vaccines Riskier Than Advertised?” – Joseph A. Ladapo and Harvey A. Risch in the Wall Street Journal say there are concerning trends on blood clots and low platelets, “not that the authorities will tell you”.
• “‘It’s a bit iffy to me’: Shaun Ryder breaks his silence on younger brother Paul’s death aged 58 as he demands answers on the sudden passing” – The Mail reports that Happy Mondays frontman Shaun said Paul had a Covid booster weeks before his passing away as a result of ischaemic heart disease and diabetes.
• “Fourteen young Canadian docs die after getting the shot. Normally would be around zero over 30 years” – Steve Kirsch writes: “This is a list of just the docs my doctor friend in Canada heard about passively. In the past 30 years, he’s never heard of a single death like this. Not one. Now there are 14.”
• “MoDeLliNG ‘Study’ Co-Authored by Deranged Virus Person Theresa Tam Claims Canada Would’ve Seen ‘Up to 800,000’ Deaths and ‘Up to 34 Million’ Cases Without Containment” – Eugyppius is not impressed with the latest lockdown agitprop modelling study from Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer that ludicrously assumes a 2.4% infection fatality rate and that 5.3% of the Canadian population would be hospitalised with the virus.
• “The Madness of Groupthink” – Dr. Robert Malone in Brownstone says the United States HHS policy making group has been directly responsible for “the amazingly unscientific and counterproductive decisions concerning bypassing normal bioethical, regulatory and clinical development norms to expedite genetic vaccine products (“Operation Warp Speed”), suppressing early treatment with repurposed drugs, mask and vaccine mandates, lockdowns, school closures, social division, defamation and intentional character assassination of critics, and a wide range of massively disruptive and devastating economic policies”.
• “Putting It Into Reverse” – Willis Eschenbach in WUWT on the remarkable temperature regulation systems of Earth, that mean above 23°C the oceans become cooler the more they are warmed by the Sun.
• “Pacific Typhoons Defy Climate Experts’ Dire Forecasts… Trending Downward 70 Years!” – Pierre Gosselin in WUWT on the counter-narrative fact that typhoons have not intensified and become more frequent during the past 70 years.
• “Next UK Rebellion” – Extinction Rebellion announces September 10th as the day its supporters will “come together in London and make the demand for climate action impossible to ignore” – you have been warned.
• “Pilot plan for 20mph speed limit on country roads gets green light” – The Telegraph reports that Surrey County Council is to trial new restrictions in areas between Guildford and Dorking in the latest in the war on driving.
• “The Corruption of Medicine” – Heather Mac Donald in City Journal is alarmed that the guardians of medicine are engaged in a systematic undermining of merit in order to alter the demographics of their field.
• “Trans ideology has no place in our schools” – Joanna Williams in Spiked says young children need protecting from gender extremism.
• “Police fail to solve a single theft in more than eight out of 10 neighbourhoods” – Victims’ watchdogs say the “shocking” data showed that theft from the person had been “effectively decriminalised”, according to the Telegraph.
• “I’m hoping the reason he cancelled it is because it was just too woke!” – Watch Toby, Andrew Doyle and Nick Dixon on GB News react to Warner Brothers cancelling the Batgirl movie.

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