News Round-Up

• “Number of Covid patients in English hospitals jumps to highest level for two months – but experts claim surge is driven by ‘incidental’ admissions” – NHS England data show there were 9,631 infected people in hospital beds as of 8am on October 5th, up 37% from the 7,024 recorded a week earlier, but the majority are not being treated primarily for Covid, reports the Mail.
• “Care home worker who refused Covid vaccine was fairly dismissed, tribunal rules” – A judge finds a claimant’s unwillingness to have the jab amounted to gross misconduct and put staff, visitors and residents at risk, People Management reports, in a ruling that will embolden authoritarian employers.
• “Where is the accountability for Covid policy harms?” – Ramesh Thakur in Spectator Australia says the lessons of Iraq atrocities now apply to lockdowns, restrictions and mandates.
• “Why are we vaccinating children?” – A vast array of the world’s leading specialists are opposed to the Covid vaccination of children, yet their views are ignored – by decision-makers, but not by the public, writes Hugh McCarthy at U.K. Column.
• “Well Being: The #1 Killer in the USA, Ages 18-45” – Dr. Robert Malone on the lives ruined and families and communities decimated by the opioid fentanyl.
• “What has happened to the ordinary human-infecting coronaviruses?” – Eugyppius makes the observation that these harmless cold-causing viruses appear to have been displaced by Omicron, in much the same way as pre-Omicron SARS-2 lineages displaced influenza.
• “Abnormal Menstruation Following COVID-19 Vaccines: A Toxicologic Consideration” – Deidre Little in the Journal of Clinical Toxicology discusses possible causes of the adverse events.
• “The New Pause Lengthens to Eight Years” – The New Pause in global warming, having paused a month ago, has now lengthened again: this time to exactly eight years, writes Christopher Monckton in WUWT.
• “The Climate-Change Censorship Campaign” – The Left is demanding that social media shut down debate even on solutions, says the Wall Street Journal in a leading article.
• “Will the lights go out this winter?” – The National Grid says the most likely scenario is Britain will make it through the winter without the lights going out, but that’s not the impression you’ll get from most of the media, says Michael Simmons in the Spectator.
• “U.S. Buys $290 Million Worth of Drugs in Preparation for Nuclear Emergencies” – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is buying $290 million worth of drugs as part of its “long-standing, ongoing efforts to be better prepared to save lives following radiological and nuclear emergencies”, reports the Epoch Times.
• “Ex-banking analyst explains how ESG scores are weaponised against CEOs to force them to go ‘woke’” – Brian Smith tells LifeSiteNews that the easiest way to understand the ESG system is to take the “Chinese social credit system” model but instead of applying it to individuals, apply it to businesses.
• “The crisis in education can’t be ignored forever” – Parents are furious at the woke takeover of schools – but no party will speak for them, says Neil Davenport in Spiked.
• “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will continue to ‘say what she thinks’” – The acclaimed author who faced an online backlash for ‘transphobia’ last year over a 2017 interview with Channel 4, said she will carry on speaking her mind in an interview with the Times as reported in the Mail.
• “J.K. Rowling calls Nicola Sturgeon a ‘destroyer of women’s rights’” – The author’s comments come as a Holyrood inquiry approved plans to allow Scots to self-identify their legal gender without medical proof, the Telegraph reports.
• “Great British Bake Off’s maracas and ponchos insensitive, say Mexican viewers” – ‘Cartoonish’ sombreros and ‘Juan’ jokes by Noel Fielding and Matt Lucas spark criticism from humourless woke Hispanic academics, according to the Telegraph. Juan born every minute…
• “Councils ordered to ditch ‘mum and dad’ and ‘homeless’ in new language guide” – The painfully woke new guide issued by the Local Government Association also suggests councils avoid using words such as ‘expat’ and ‘deprived neighbourhoods’, the Telegraph reports. Read Richard Littlejohn’s comment on this in the Mail.
• “Quarter of young people are LGBT, Stonewall survey suggests” – The poll by Ipsos Mori found that for Gen Z respondents (aged 16 to 26) only 71% identify as straight, according to the Telegraph. However, official ONS statistics suggest the figure is more like 92%.
• “Suella Braverman’s ‘protest banning orders’ must be stopped” – Mark Johnson in UnHerd says the Public Order Bill is an unacceptable restriction on liberty.
• “It is just ridiculous that the police are wasting their time investigating these petty incidents” – Toby speaks to GB News‘s Michelle Dewberry about Caroline Farrow being arrested because of ‘malicious’ online posts.

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