News Round-Up

• “The Covid inquiry should focus on the dire consequences of lockdown” – It is essential to uncover why a meaningful cost-benefit analysis of the policy was not carried out, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
• “Chinese metropolis of Chengdu locks down 21 million residents” – CNN reports that the Chinese metropolis of Chengdu imposed a sweeping city-wide lockdown on Thursday evening, confining 21 million residents to their homes as the country doubles down on its Zero Covid policy ahead of a key Communist Party meeting.
• “Mask Up, Berkeley Students” – Dr. Robert Malone writes for Brownstone that it appears UC Berkeley is “living in some authoritarian reality, where it is acceptable to dictate medical procedures”.
• “Bristol Zoo closes its doors after 186 years because of Covid” – Bristol Zoo Gardens has shut down its main centre due to the impact of the pandemic and lockdowns, the Mail reports.
• “Three dead, six ill with mystery pneumonia ‘very similar to Covid’ in Argentina” – Six people are infected and unwell, local health officials say, as Covid, flu and Hantavirus have been ruled out as the cause, reports Yahoo! News – though there’s no sign yet of spread.
• “Exit Fauci. Exit Whitty?” – The Covid Physician writes that the Covid policies of Drs. Fauci and Whitty have “arguably contributed to the greatest consequential harm to world health and mortality in history. The full sequelae have yet to be realised and are ongoing. Their policy conduct during Covid was so reckless and grossly negligent it may be criminal, in my opinion. Whitty was knighted in 2022 for his services to public health.”
• “Some of the rats are staying on the ship” – Dr. Roger Watson writes for Unity News Network that with some senior Tories now trying to distance themselves from the disaster that was lockdown, it appears that “some of the rats have not received the memo and are content to go down with the ship”.
• “Joe Biden rewrites history on Covid, law and order” – Park MacDougald in UnHerd says that within the space of a few hours on Thursday, the White House pulled off two of the more cynical rhetorical moves of the current administration.
• “These global tyrants want to make slaves of us all” – Dr. Mike Yeadon with a warning in TCW Defending Freedom that we may not like what those driving global events have in store for us.
• “The Democrats’ green agenda is hurting Californians” – Joel Kotkin writes for UnHerd that the once-great state of California is now in a dire condition: “With a heatwave now in full force, Governor Gavin Newsom is preparing to cut energy use, which may result in blackouts, brownouts and water rationing.”
• “California Urges Residents Not to Charge EVs after 4pm” – Eric Worrall in WUWT writes that as California’s global warming-ready energy grid of the future buckles under a heatwave, residents have been urged not to charge electric vehicles between 4-9pm.
• “Greenhouse Efficiency” – Willis Eschenbach in WUWT offers an ingenious proof of how we can know the recent temperature rise is driven by an increase in solar radiation rather than an increase in the greenhouse effect.
• “The Pandemic Did This? New York Times Fails Fact Check” – Debbie Lerman at Brownstone argues that “a pandemic cannot impose mandates or lockdowns. A pandemic cannot block borders or force people to stop travelling. A pandemic cannot shutter schools – overnight or otherwise.” Michael Simmons at the Spectator has a write-up of the new U.S. education data here.
• “Next U.K. Rebellion” – Extinction Rebellion announces its next set of disruptions on September 10-13th in London, ahead of a tour – you have been warned.
• “The truth about Extinction Rebellion” – As XR activists stage a protest in the House of Commons, Tom Slater in the Spectator asks if they really want to “let the people decide”?
• “Families could be asked to ration energy use when wind doesn’t blow” – Kathryn Porter, from consultancy Watt-Logic, said it was possible households could be asked not to use energy guzzling appliances at peak hours or eat their dinner at a different time, according to the Mail.
• “Stop blaming climate change for Pakistan’s floods” – Poverty and underdevelopment are the real causes of this devastation, says James Woudhuysen in Spiked.
• “We are all living in Greta’s world now” – This winter’s energy crisis will give us a foretaste of what a world without cheap energy looks like, says Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
• “Tom Kerridge says energy bill at his pub will soar from £60k to £420k” – Celebrity chef Tom Kerridge, who owns three pubs based in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, has been quoted a rise from £5,000 to £30,000 a month for electricity at one of his businesses, reports the Mail.
• “Know why your fuel bills are soaring?” – John Constable writes in the Express that the U.K.’s energy crisis has been in the making for more than 20 years and “is the result of the incompetent policies of Mr Blair, Mr Brown, Mr Cameron, Mrs May, and Mr Johnson, and all their hapless energy minsters and advisors too numerous to name”.
• “Power Company Seizes Control of Thermostats in Colorado During Heatwave” – Summit News reports that households were locked out under ‘energy emergency’ provisions.
• “The Brendan O’Neill Show” – Andrew Doyle – author of The New Puritans – joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss how the elites succumbed to woke hysteria.
• “I fear many universities today are just one giant scam on the young: Soaring fees, suffocating wokeness, and little advantage for graduates in the jobs market” – Former lecturer Dominic Sandbrook gives his verdict on higher education in the Mail.
• “72% of Top U.S. Medical Schools Using Identity, Racial Politics in Admissions Process: Report” – The majority of America’s top-ranked medical schools are injecting racial politics into the admissions process, according to a review conducted by the medical advocacy group Do No Harm, the Epoch Times reports.
• “Now Jacob Rees-Mogg scraps ‘woke’ Civil Service training courses” – Mr Rees-Mogg has been clear that that wokery in the Civil Service is wasting employees’ time, and has now scrapped 265 of the more than 400 “wellness, inclusion and diversity” courses, the Mail reports.

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