News Round-Up

• “Bring back face masks on public transport this winter, says Tony Blair Institute” – The Tony Blair Institute has called for face masks to be made compulsory on public transport again, the Telegraph reports, and for the booster campaign to include all adults
• “Tony Blair’s Covid grift” – “It would be easy, but foolish, to dismiss Tony Blair’s proposals as the ramblings of a bored ex-PM,” says Ross Clark, sounding a warning in the Spectator
• “Scott Morrison resists calls to resign after secretly assuming five ministerial roles while Australia PM” – Former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, now an opposition MP, has come under fire for secretly appointing himself to five ministerial roles while in office, Sky News reports. He claimed the extra powers were necessary during the Covid crisis
• “Long lockdowns a ‘failure of policy’, says WHO envoy on Covid” – The Sydney Morning Herald features an interview with Dr. David Nabarro. “There is a huge cost to this 100% lockdown approach,” the World Health Organisation’s special envoy on the pandemic said
• “Top U.S. health official admits ‘dramatic mistakes’ in tackling Covid” – While announcing a restructuring of the organisation, CDC director Rochelle Walensky has admitted that it has made some “pretty dramatic, pretty public mistakes”, reports the FT
• “Reinstate Detectives who were forced off the job due to the vaccine mandates” – Read the Detectives’ Endowment Association’s letter to Mayor Adams of New York City, urging that qualified detectives be reinstated, regardless of vaccination status  
• “Sycophancy to China Is the only possible explanation for Western elites’ incoherent COVID-19 narrative” – Michael P. Senger’s latest broadside is against the Western political class’s “logically and deadly incoherent” narrative about Covid
• “Response to Karol Sikora, Keith Dudleston et al. on the possible causes of recent excess mortality” – Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan list some possible causes of the high levels of excess mortality and call for these any other plausible explanations to be fully tested
• “CDC admits they were wrong about a huge safety problem by silently deleting the erroneous text” – Steve Kirsch highlights a change on the CDC website in which an inaccurate claim about the mRNA vaccines and the spike protein was quietly removed
• “Green dreams on the Red Sea… welcome to COP27’s festival of futility” – Writing in the Conservative Woman, Ivor Williams looks ahead to November and the arrival of COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh
• “Tasmanian tiger could be brought back from extinction by gene editing” – They perished 86 years ago, but Australian scientists have predicted that the Tasmanian tiger could be brought back to life with stem cell and gene editing technology, according to the Times
• “My culture war with J.K. Rowling is fiction, says the Chocolat writer Joanne Harris” – Author Joanne Harris, who has been accused by J.K. Rowling of having “consistently failed” to defend gender critical writers, has dismissed the row as a “fabricated culture war”, the Times reports
• “Minneapolis school district defends plan to fire white teachers first” – The Post Millennial reports that the Minneapolis School district believes the practice will “remedy the continuing effects of past discrimination”
• “No White Man’s Sky: the RAF’s discriminatory hiring” – Bournbrook’s Luke Perry takes aim at the RAF after its head of recruitment resigned over an “effective pause” on hiring white men
• “Salman Rushdie’s alleged attacker ‘surprised’ author survived stabbing” – Hadi Matar also admitted to only reading “a couple of pages” of The Satanic Verses, the Telegraph reports
• “Hollywood vs the people” – “The entertainment industry is putting woke indoctrination ahead of entertainment,” says Professor Frank Furedi in Spiked
• “Jacob Rees-Mogg’s Whitehall efficiency drive has ‘saved almost £4 billion’” – Jacob Rees Mogg trumpets the success of his efficiency drive in the Telegraph, but the Liz Truss supporter says greater government efficiency is needed to tackle inflation
• “Inflation surges into double digits for first time in 40 years” – Britain is suffering the worst inflation crisis of any G7 country, according to the Telegraph
• “Ofgem director quits, saying regulator isn’t ‘protecting households’” – Ofgem director Christine Farnish has quit, MailOnline reports, saying she couldn’t “support a key decision to recover additional supplier costs from consumer bills this winter”
• “Two-thirds of U.K. families could be in fuel poverty by January, research finds” – An estimated 45 million people will be left struggling to make ends meet after further rises to the  price cap, the Guardian says, reporting research carried out by the University of York
• “Hundreds of thousands of U.K. households ditch Amazon Prime” – Almost 600,000 British households cancelled their Amazon Prime subscriptions ahead of a price rise, reports the Telegraph
• “People are fleeing the state” – “For the first time in California history, you now have more people who are leaving the state than are coming,” says Kevin Kiley on Kusi TV

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