News Round-Up

• “‘Vaccine fatigue’ could hit autumn Covid boosters” – Britain faces a low uptake of the Covid booster jab this autumn amidst ‘vaccine fatigue’ and “complacency about the virus”, according to the Times. Complacency? Are we supposed to be afraid?
• “‘I can’t believe they dismissed her case’: Severely ill miss out on care funding due to Zoom calls” – The Telegraph reports that people with serious health needs are being wrongly turned down for free care due to a rise in video call assessments by the NHS, charities have warned.
• “Their delusions and hypocrisy are beyond parody: As Apple staff claim it’s racist and sexist to force them back in the office, ex-No 10 supremo Steve Hilton heaps scorn on the ‘hippy-dippy mumbo-jumbo’ of the pampered whingeing millennials” – Steve Hilton in the Mail blasts the “pampered woke millennials who seem to speak for Apple employees” after they “circulated a petition protesting against management’s three day-week edict”.
• “Alan Miller interviews Professor Sunetra Gupta” – Sunetra Gupta, one of the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, joins Alan on the Together Talks podcast to discuss the Covid era and how we can learn from it. 
• “Australia’s excess death toll just keeps getting worse” – The Arkmedic blog reports on the latest all-cause mortality statistics from Australia, which “paint a horrific picture of the effects of public health policy with around 15,000 excess deaths since October 2021”.
• “Dr. Altman Report – COVID-19 Evidence Based Information” – The Australian Medical Professionals’ Society draws attention to Dr. Philip Altman’s report on the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines in an open letter to Australian Colleges and Associations of Medicine, Health, and Science, and Members of Parliament.
• “Mark Steyn questions why young healthy people are dying across the U.K.” – Is there really nothing to see here, asks the no-holds-barred presenter.
• “Unusual Toxic Components Found in Covid Vaccines, ‘Without Exception’: German Scientists” – A group of independent German scientists found toxic components – mostly metallic – in all the Covid vaccine samples they analysed, “without exception”, reports the Epoch Times. For context, see the European Medicines Agency’s response to similar research into other vaccines in 2017, which argued: “The presence of minuscule trace amounts of certain inorganic particles in vaccines is not unexpected and the manufacturing process for all parenteral preparations is designed to ensure that any such traces are kept within safe limits.”
• “Over 30 deaths of young, healthy Canadian doctors cannot be explained any other way” – Steve Kirsch delves into the unprecedented rise in deaths of medics in Canada, including dozens who were young and healthy, and is confident only one thing can be to blame.
• “Tess Talks with Dr. David Cartland” – Dr. Tess Lawrie speaks to the anti-mandate campaigner about his journey, the impact of the jab on his health, the lack of doctors sitting on regulatory boards such as the General Medical Council, and the possibility of establishing alternative organisations for medical professionals.
• “The Frank Report XXXIII” – Frank Haviland on the New Conservative says the great and the good have always taken the piss out of Joe Public, but they’re getting increasingly brazen about it.
• “The Byline Times about SPR” – Swiss Policy Research responds with a fact check to the Left-wing rag’s latest accuracy-challenged smear piece.
• “Boris Johnson: Don’t give up on green energy” – The Telegraph reports that the Prime Minister insists the U.K. can still pursue Net Zero while taking the sting out of heating bills – reminding us he has been totally captured by the Green Blob.
• “British energy planning (a horror story)” – James McSweeney in the Critic says keeping the lights on is a basic function of modern government, and we are close to critical failure.
• “Jobs Armageddon as business prepares to shut up shop while energy bills soar” – Business leaders have warned of a jobs bloodbath as soaring energy bills threaten to force hotels to close for the winter, pubs to slash their opening hours and factories to shut down, with the starkest estimates putting the number of jobs at risk in hospitality at 500,000, the Times reports.
• “Stop paying universities to teach rubbish” – No Conservative government should use scarce resources to subsidise the brainwashing and anti-intellectualism that thrives on many campuses, writes Simon Heffer in the Telegraph.
• “We are still in denial about radical Islam” – Brendan O’Neill in Spiked is concerned that even the savagery of the ‘ISIS Beatles’ is already being forgotten.
• “Twitter’s whistleblower has pitched up at a very inconvenient moment” – John Naughton in the Guardian says a long and detailed complaint about lax practices by the social media firm’s former security chief must be music to Elon Musk’s ears.
• “Western University in London, Ontario, has strict new Covid measures – every student on campus must have three vax shots, and wear masks in class. Hundreds are protesting the decision” – Natasha Fatah tweets a CBC report on the latest Covid extremism at a Canadian university at the expense of students.

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