News Round-Up

• “Do you really need another Covid jab? Experts give their verdicts as a major new booster campaign begins – but AstraZeneca’s boss says a fourth jab isn’t necessary” – With Covid now endemic and natural immunity levels high, is another jab really necessary, asks the Mail.
• “Why are so many people dying?” – The Health Advisory and Recovery Team (HART) probes what lies behind the recent alarming excess death figures around the world.
• “Leading Virologists Wrongfully Assumed Covid Began in Wuhan in December 2019 in Major New Study” – Michael Senger highlights the accumulating evidence of pre-December 2019 spread of SARS-CoV-2 around the world, making the critical point that such evidence is fatal for the Wuhan wet market origin theory still being pushed by leading virologists in top journals.
• “U.K. Government stops vaccinating 5-11 year olds” – The Naked Emperor has spotted that the Covid vaccination for primary school children was a one-off programme that has quietly not been renewed.
• “‎RFK Jr The Defender Podcast: Origins of the Virus with Jeffrey Sachs” – ‎Robert F. Kennedy Jr. interviews Jeffrey Sachs on the origins of the virus.
• “Was Grant Shapps right to do his own research on Christmas lockdowns?” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson write on Trust the Evidence about the 10 days before Christmas of 2021 that “changed perspectives on modelling, lockdowns and restrictions”.
• “Vaccine injuries and our floundering, blundering scientists” – Sean Walsh in TCW Defending Freedom says it is essential, for the sake of the injured and dead, that “we prove the real connection between vaccine and injury”.
• “The Experts Still Pushing Coerced Jabs ” – Dr. David Bell in Brownstone warns that we have “seen the path society takes when basic public health principles are subverted to achieve an aim that some perceive as ‘good'”.
• “Lockdowns Did Not Save Lives” – Read the shortened version in Brownstone of John Johnson and Denis Rancourt’s study which found “the regulatory imposition and enforcement of statewide lockdown orders conclusively correlates with larger all-cause mortality by state”, a result “inconsistent with the hypothesis that lockdowns saved lives”.
• “Coronavirus September Update” – The latest insights from the Swiss Doctor.
• “Dozens of North Korean prisoners starve to death at labour camps after Kim Jong Un’s strict Covid rules prevent them getting food” – The Mail reports that Kaechon Prison in South Pyongan province provides food for inmates but it is not enough.
• “The Circular Economy: A Return to Soviet-Style Five-Year Plans” – Dr. Mikko Paunio on Real Clear Energy contends the carbon-neutral ‘circular economy’ ideas fostered by the World Economic Forum and the Finnish Innovation Fund are causing shockwaves because they are ultimately based on an illusion.
• “Freezing energy bills could be cold comfort for the economy” – Julian Jessop on CapX says that the energy price cap is another massive – and very expensive – state intervention which will distort markets even further, and may be the worst solution to the energy crisis – apart from all the others.
• “U.K. energy crisis: why rationing is likely to happen this winter, whether Liz Truss likes it or not” – Renaud Foucart on CapX argues that without serious demand reduction, Europe could well face blackouts this winter, and the U.K.’s lack of gas storage leaves it at the mercy of price spikes.
• “Russia pockets €158 bn in energy exports after war: report” – Euractiv reports that, according to a think tank, Russia has raked in a whopping €158 billion in energy exports in the six months following its invasion of Ukraine, with the EU accounting for more than half.
• “Renewable Energy to Save the Planet? A Soho Forum Debate” – Watch: Texas A&M University’s Andrew Dessler goes head-to-head with Steven Koonin, former Undersecretary for Science at the Department of Energy, on the topic of renewable energy.
• “Dutch city of Haarlem may be world’s first to ban most meat ads” – Haarlem is to ban most adverts for meat from public spaces because of the food’s impact on climate, according to BBC News.
• “Schools shouldn’t fly BLM flags” – Ayaan Hirsi Ali writes in UnHerd that the activist organisation’s divisive programme is the enemy of black prosperity.
• “Children whose first language isn’t English are outperforming their native-speaking peers” – The Telegraph reports that SATS results for English pupils have fallen below those from immigrant families since the lockdowns, with only 58% now making the grade in reading, writing and maths.
• “The trans inquisition comes to Ireland” – Fraser Myers in Spiked highlights the disturbing case of a teacher who refused to use preferred pronouns and has landed himself in prison.
• “It is like the Conservative Party are trolling the Labour Party. This is their third female Prime Minister and the Labour Party haven’t had one” – Appearing on GB News with Mark Steyn, Toby slams the Labour Party for being “the party of gender equality” despite never having had a female leader.

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