News Round-Up

• “Former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith vows to launch Parliamentary probe into Wuhan’s Covid ‘lab-leak’ theories if elected to run the Foreign Affairs Select Committee” – The Mail reports that Sir Iain has privately vowed to hold an inquiry into growing evidence that Covid leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan, where the virus was first detected.
• “Children in Hong Kong wear double Covid masks while playing the flute” – The video, which was released by Hong Kong’s Education Bureau ahead of China’s National Day on October 1st, has drawn ridicule online, reports the Mail.
• “Anthony Fauci still won’t admit that prolonged school closures – fueled by his rhetoric – were bad policy” – He claims it was okay during the wait for adult vaccines. That’s false, writes Dr. Vinay Prasad, and omits the fact that many cities waited long thereafter.
• “COVID-19 vaccines – An Australian Review” – Read the peer-reviewed review article in the latest issue of the Journal of Clinical & Experimental Immunology setting out the evidence of why the Covid vaccines are not as safe and effective as we have been told.
• “No, the vaccines never worked all that well against severe Covid” – Alex Berenson comes cross an overlooked British study from June with some dire vaccine effectiveness data.
• “‘Everyone needs to know the truth’ Former EcoHealth Alliance VP turned whistleblower speaks out” – Dr. Andrew G. Huff, former EcoHealth Alliance VP turned whistle-blower, speaks to TrialSite News‘s Sonia Elijah, saying he reviewed a research proposal for gain of function virology work, which he attests led to the creation of SARS-CoV-2.
• “Vaccine Mandate Ruled ‘Invalid’ for Police Association Members in New York” – A Manhattan Supreme Court judge has ruled that the New York vaccine mandate as it applies to members of the Police Benevolent Association (PBA) is “invalid” and fired cops must be given back their jobs, reports the Epoch Times.
• “Affecting Up to 216,000 Studies – Popular Genetic Method Found To Be Deeply Flawed” – A new study reveals flaws in a common analytical method within population genetics, reports SciTechDaily.
• “Britain runs low on ammo as Ukraine bombards Kremlin forces” – The Telegraph reports that the arms industry is yet to ramp up production despite Ukraine’s need for weapons.
• “Home Secretary Suella Braverman tells police focus on fighting crime ” – New Home Secretary Suella Braverman has written a letter to police chiefs telling them to spend less time on ‘diversity’ and concentrate on tackling offences like burglary, graffiti and drugs, reports the Mail.
• “The shameful exploitation of Chris Kaba’s death” – What the race-baiting vultures want more than anything else is for the U.K. to finally have a George Floyd moment of its own, writes Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Spectator.
• “Cambridge dons revolt over ‘propagandist’ slavery conference criticising the late Queen” – Insiders say the three-day event has been captured by activists and filled with radical scholars who have condemned colonialism, according to the Telegraph.
• “The Kids Online Safety Act Would Be Harmful to Kids” – Harold Furchtgott-​Roth and Kirk R. Arner at the Hudson Institute write that the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) would spell doom for the Internet: “KOSA’s provisions are impossible to implement, as compliance would require herculean efforts by websites large and small, invading the privacy of minors and their families, and undermining the very foundations of intellectual property law and entire business models as we know them today.”
• “Why ‘People of Colour’ Is a Divisive and Confused Term” – In addition to being condescending and divisive, the phrase ‘people of colour’ also obscures reality, writes Theodore Dalrymple in City Journal.
• “Germany: Greens Plan to Ban Native Germans From a Third of Jobs to Promote ‘Diversity’” – Summit News reports on the latest discriminatory antics of the woke Left running Hanover.
• “Police must avoid wading into social or political issues, says standards chief” – Chief Constable Andy Marsh, Chief Executive of the College of Policing, tells the Telegraph that what the public want is for police to get the basics right.
• “Fury at ‘witch-hunt’ sacking of a Swindon maths teacher after he refused to use a teenage pupil’s preferred pronouns without obtaining permission from the student’s parents” – Maths teacher Kevin Lister was sacked from a Swindon school after refusing to affirm a pupil’s gender change because he wanted to first obtain the permission of the student’s parents, reports the Mail.
• “We see this kind of thing happening in China… We’re now beginning to see the same thing in the West” – Watch Toby tell Esther McVey and Philip Davies on GB News that PayPal’s decision to shut his accounts is “a real assault on free speech” from “woke corporations”.

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