News Round-Up

• “FDA adviser says healthy young people shouldn’t get another booster” – Dr. Paul Offit, a member of the FDA’s Vaccine Advisory Committee, said he’s not fully sold that the benefits of a third shot outweigh the harm and the booster has only been tested on lab mice, the Mail reports.
• “Dr. Paul Marik on why doctors aren’t speaking out” – The medic tells Steve Kirsch how badly he was treated for backing repurposed treatment and being sceptical about the vaccines.
• “Mucosal plasma cells are required to protect the upper airway and brain from infection” – A new study in Cell confirms that blood-borne antibodies cannot protect the nose and upper airway from infection, stating this has “implications for vaccinology”.
• “Concomitant Administration of Flu and SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines Lowers Antibody Titers Against COVID-19” – TrialSite News says it’s “immunology 101 that introducing multiple antigens simultaneously will generally reduce the immune response to each antigen”.
• “Omicron booster boosterism and the fate of public health” – El Gato Malo says that the approach to Covid boosters is not the road to regaining trust.
• “We must get more home-grown energy on stream urgently” – Jacob Rees-Mogg in the Telegraph indicates the Government is belatedly discovering the concept of energy security after 12 years in power.
• “Tumbling gas prices on track to slash £60bn cost of energy bailout” – Some good news on energy for a change, as the Telegraph reports that successful efforts to fill gas storage could halve prices by early next year.
• “On fracking the ‘climate blob’ remain in control, says IEA energy analyst” – The Institute of Economic Affairs’s Andy Mayer says that “reversing one harmful policy is not enough, the Government needs to get out of the way of domestic oil and gas production”.
• “Head of World Bank under pressure after White House condemns his ‘climate denial’ comments” – David Malpass apologises after saying he “doesn’t know” if he accepts alarmist climate science, reports the Guardian.
• “Giorgia Meloni’s victory would be a triumph for Italian democracy” – Nicholas Farrell in the Spectator writes that Meloni has been branded ‘far-right’ and ‘post-fascist’ but she is neither, and it is “outrageous” that the “unelected EU Commission” should threaten to punish Italy’s elected government should she win power and not behave.
• “How will Truss tackle immigration?” – Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator says that the PM’s plan to increase immigration yet further, including with ‘open access’ for India, “has to be one of the most insane policy shifts ever contemplated by a U.K. Government” and is something that the electorate consistently opposes.
• “The Frank Report XXXVII” – Frank Haviland in the New Conservative complains that “much that the British taxpayer has been forced to sign up for would fail to meet its obligations under the Trade Descriptions Act”.
• “Mark Lawrenson: BBC axed me for being 65 and white” – The pundit tells the Times he is anti-woke: “The the woke thing drives me bonkers. Whereas normally you would say the first thing that comes into your head, you’re now thinking, ‘If I say that will I get into trouble?'”
• “The scourge of inter-communal hatred” – Rakib Ehsan in the Critic looks at what is behind the violence in Leicester.
• “I believe @Keir_Starmer and @UKLabour are acting unlawfully in excluding @LesbianLabour” – Allison Bailey tweets her disapproval of Labour’s exclusion of the gender critical lesbian rights group.
• “Watering down Online Safety Bill ‘will put children at risk’” – In an article for the Telegraph, five former Culture Secretaries downplay freedom of speech fears and bizarrely claim that “no one can defend” the promotion of “legal hate speech” as harmless – wholly failing to grasp that ‘hate speech’ is woke code for criticising their nutty ideas with facts.
• “When a virtual cash till starts censoring us, you know there’s a big problem with Big Tech” – “Je Suis Toby,” says Rod Liddle in the Times.
• “Wallets are the new frontier in the fight for free speech” – PayPal’s decision to close down the Free Speech Union’s account underlines the dangers of a future cashless society, writes Emma Webb in the Telegraph.
• “Big tech is being weaponised to ‘suppress dissent’” – Watch Toby on Sky News Australia telling viewers there’s a global trend of weaponising Big Tech and financial services systems to “suppress dissent of every kind”, adding: “We saw it in the case of Justin Trudeau shutting down the freedom convoy earlier this year.”
• “Is massive boob trans guy the world’s cleverest troll?” – Martin Daubney shares on Twitter the rumour that the teacher is actually solidly non-woke and only using his outrageous appearance as a ploy against his employer.

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