News Round-Up

• “Covid infections jump 29% in a week in England” – ONS statisticians estimate around 1.1 million people were infected with the virus on any given day in the week up to September 24th in England, according to the Mail.
• “Wetherspoon faces ‘challenge’ to persuade punters back after lockdown” – Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin said it is facing “a momentous challenge” to persuade pubgoers back after they got used to drinking cheap supermarket beer during the pandemic, the Mail reports.
• “The Real Reason Vaccine Mandates are Wrong” – Julie Ponesse at Brownstone says the vaccine mandates are wrong because “they trample on the very thing the noblest version of a liberal democratic society should be trying to create”.
• “Fauci’s Peculiar Defense of EcoHealth Funding” – Jeffrey Tucker in the Epoch Times writes that the shady EcoHealth Alliance, which was involved in gain-of-function coronavirus research in Wuhan and has not cooperated with investigations in the virus origins, received another $3m in September for new virus research; Fauci’s bizarre defence was that he was supposedly legally obliged to give it to them.
• “April Was the Cruellest Month” – Wood House takes a deeper look at how many died due to ventilators, poor treatments and other ill-conceived interventions in NYC.
• “Christine’s law; lest we forget” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson on the need to do much better with care homes during disease outbreaks.
• “Shot through the heart? Post-booster excess deaths in Japan” – Guy Gin looks at the data and finds non-Covid excess deaths at the start of 2022 in New Zealand and Japan were associated with booster rollouts.
• “The worldwide flight from mRNA shots continues” – Australia has quietly stopped recommending more Covid vaccines for almost everyone under 50, and Norway under 65, writes Alex Berenson.
• “Ebola: This is Not ‘Over’” – Dr. Robert Malone is concerned about gain-of-function research to ‘aerosolise’ Ebola, which sounds like a really bad idea.
• “Peter McCullough: Welcome to Twitter Heaven. We’ve been expecting you!” – Steve Kirsch writes that Dr. Peter McCullough, one of the most highly respected cardiologists in the world, is now banned from Twitter: “He’s always been very careful with his tweets, but not careful enough.”
• “Deluded green narratives around oil and gas must not allow us to surrender our energy security” – Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg writes in the Telegraph that the U.K. will need to continue to import fuels from abroad but “will also not rest on our laurels when it comes to homegrown renewable energy”.
• “Smart meter payouts to be made permanent to help meet Net Zero goals” – National Grid is offering to pay households for reducing smart meter use during peak hours on days when wind is low to avert blackouts, according to the Telegraph.
• “The vaccine victim seeking answers from Dame June Raine” – Charlet Crichton writes in TCW Defending Freedom that after her second AstraZeneca jab in February last year, she had a reaction causing acute numbness, tremors and more than 30 other symptoms and is now seeking answers from the MHRA.
• “I just notified Dr. John Su at the CDC that the ‘death’ safety signal was triggered for the Covid vaccines” – Steve Kirsch has let the CDC expert who is in charge of monitoring the VAERS system for safety signals that the ‘death’ safety signal has been triggered and invites readers to do so as well.
• “Pfizer faces backlash for creating pro-vaccine Marvel comic: Experts say PR tactic is ‘ethically dubious in the extreme’” – The Mail reports that experts warned the comic appears to be promoting the vaccines to children.
• “NSTA launches 33rd Offshore Oil and Gas Licensing Round” – The North Sea Transition Authority is inviting applications for over 100 licences to look for oil and gas in a sign of a new stress on energy security.
• “The climate scaremongers: Hurricane Ian and climate porn” – Paul Homewood in TCW Defending Freedom runs through the evidence that counters the media narrative that climate change is responsible for Hurricane Ian.
• “Only 45% of young Britons support U.K. role in Ukraine, poll suggests” – Less than half of young people support Britain’s current role in the Ukraine conflict, according to a survey carried out for the Times.
• “The West is in denial over Putin’s nuclear bombs” – The idea he is bluffing is naïve, and it fails to understand how Russia views this war; we must prepare for the worst scenario, writes Bob Seely in the Telegraph.
• “Detransitioners can no longer be ignored” – Lauren Smith in Spiked says their very existence explodes the claims of the trans lobby.
• “How the EU is Forcing Twitter to Censor (and Musk Can’t Stop It)” – Robert Kogon in Brownstone writes that the EU’s Digital Services Act is imposing EU censorship on the entire world.
• “White students banned from Black History Month events at Westminster University” – The “tragic” decision by the students’ union sees the institution accused of “racial segregation” and sowing “interethnic suspicion and division”, according to the Telegraph.
• “Anthony Horowitz says cancel culture has forced him to ‘shut up’” – The multi-million selling author has decided to write stories that don’t upset anyone so that his books don’t end up “damaged”, reports the Mail, in the latest sign of the self-censorship of cancel culture.
• “Social media drives number of transgender hate crime reports up by 56%” – The Mail reports there were 155,841 ‘offences’ recorded in England and Wales over the year to March, up 26% from the previous year in the biggest rise for five years, in a worrying sign of the growing suppression online of gender critical views.
• “We don’t let our children dabble in crack cocaine. Why do we let them dabble in social media?” – As further details of the tragic suicide of Molly Russell emerge, is it time to consider a ban on social media for children, asks UsforThem’s Molly Kingsley.
• “NHS doctor and trustee of controversial Mermaids charity sparks fresh trans row after describing biological sex as a ‘concept’ – as furious campaigners hit back: ‘It’s a fact of nature… every human being is either male or female’” – Dr. Katie McDowell, who works at King’s College Hospital in south London, appears to have a worryingly weak grasp of biology.
• “Sturgeon insists ‘abusive men’ are a risk to women, ‘not trans women’ ” – The Mail reports that Nicola Sturgeon has doubled down in her row with J.K. Rowling over trans rights, telling an interview that “abusive men are the risk to women, not trans women”, apparently deliberately ignoring the basic points that gender critical activists are making.
• “Harvard hospital claims ‘babies know in womb if they’re transgender’” – In a now-deleted video, the Boston Children’s Hospital suggests infants know they’re transgender “as soon as they can talk”, reports the Mail.

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