News Round-Up

• “The NHS is wrong to cancel appointments because of the Queen’s funeral” – While Monday has been designated a public holiday, there is no obligation on businesses to close down or for anyone to stop work, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
• “What’s behind the mystery of thousands of excess deaths this summer?” – Devi Sridhar in the Guardian argues that the wave of excess deaths is due to a “mix of the new burden of COVID-19 and an overloaded health service, with days of extreme heat thrown in”. Anything missing from that list?
• “Long Covid myths busted” – The Health Advisory and Recovery Team (HART) looks in depth at two recent papers and finds the claims that Long Covid could be a ‘mass disabling event’ totally unfounded. It is not common, they conclude, and it is not reduced by vaccination.
• “Covid policies and harms to children” – HART updates its comprehensive review of the evidence.
• “Why We Question the Safety of COVID-19 vaccines” – Robert M Kaplan and Sander Greenland explain why they wrote their Vaccine study with Dr. Peter Doshi setting out a risk-benefit assessment of the Covid vaccines, in a post which Professor Francois Balloux has tweeted convinced him to take Covid safety concerns seriously.
• “Denmark Ends Covid vaccinations for almost everyone under 50.” – Alex Berenson says we’ve come a long way in a year – except at American colleges, which, “insanely, are forcing mRNA boosters on students”.
• “Health Feedback publishes a flawed ‘fact check’ on the Epoch Times clot article” – Steve Kirsch says the establishment narrative gatekeeper never bothered to contact the sources to allow them to respond to its hit piece.
• “Masks don’t work so why are people continuing to push for them?” – Hugh McCarthy with a wide ranging look at developmental issues around mask wearing plus a review of their efficacy.
• “The Naked Absurdity of Global Public Health” – Dr. David Bell in Brownstone looks at the burgeoning pandemic industry and notes that humans are fully capable of living a lie and embracing absurdity in life and work just to get along.
• “The McCullough paper” – Phil Harper with a summary of a paper on mRNA vaccine safety.
• “Time: U.K. PM Liz Truss has Shown ‘Strikingly Little Interest’ in Climate Change” – Eric Worrall in WUWT notes that Time has picked up on the potential climate policy conflict between King Charles and Liz Truss.
• “EU physics denial has come home to roost” – El Gato Malo with a tour de force on energy and why renewables won’t cut it.
• “Germany is committing national suicide” – Ralph Schoellhammer in Spiked says an eco-obsessed elite has sacrificed energy and food security to the climate agenda.
• “The Kharkov Game-Changer” – Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation with an alternative take on Russia’s Kharkiv defeat – note that the SCF is based in Moscow and is deemed by the U.S. Government to be a mouthpiece of the Russian state, so the article is best understood as giving Russia’s spin on events and scepticism should be duly applied.
• “Sterling’s last stand” – Philip Pilkington with a gloomy outlook in this long read in the Critic.
• “DHS: ‘Radicalised’ Americans who believe ‘false narratives’ online are the new terror threat” – U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a speech on the anniversary of 9/11 that America’s enemy now are individuals “radicalised to violence by an ideology of hate, anti-government sentiment, false narratives propagated on online platforms, even personal grievances”, reports Reclaim the Net.
• “Conservative MP Calls On Police To Continue To Respect The Right To Free Speech” – David Davis has called on the police to “continue to respect the right to free speech” after protests following the death of the Queen, reports Politics Home.
• “Corbyn & Davis Join Up to Fight For Free Speech” – “Corbyn, Davis, most of the Socialist Campaign Group, Guido and the Free Speech Union – Theresa’s coalition of chaos has finally come to fruition,” quips Guido Fawkes.
• “Protesters stage demo ahead of prayer service for the Queen” – The Mail reports that protesters held a ‘free speech’ demonstration outside the Edinburgh cathedral where the Queen was lying in state amid a backlash against “overzealous” police for arresting anti-royalists.
• “London Marathon will include non-binary gender option next year” – Runners planning to take part in next year’s London Marathon will be offered an option to identify themselves as non-binary for the first time in their ballot application, the Mail reports.
• “Political extremist academics are undermining the very concept of universities” – Ross Clark in the Telegraph says he doesn’t want to curtail U.S. activist academic Uju Anya’s right to free speech, but he is concerned over what her words tell us about U.S. university campuses.
• “The rise and fall of the hate-crime hoax” – Brendan O’Neill in Spiked on why so many people lie about being victims of racial hatred.
• “Biden is treating his political opponents like domestic terrorists” – Freddy Gray at the Spectator says the President’s talk of “protecting democracy” looks like a conscious campaign to harass and intimidate the opposition.

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