News Round-Up

• “How we failed the ‘Class of Covid’” – Jennie Bristow in Spiked says young people paid a heavy price for lockdown, but they’re not damaged beyond repair.
• “How we win this” – Steve Kirsch says if we want to end the pandemic tyranny, Americans need to “go on the offence” and change laws at the federal, state, and county level.
• “Covid blamed for spike in potentially deadly pregnancy complications” – A spike in potentially deadly pregnancy complications, some leading to stillbirths, is being blamed on Covid infections in women, the Mail reports. However, others have suggested that the higher testing rates of hospitalised women may have skewed the findings.
• “Frank Report XXXIX” – Frank Haviland in the New Conservative with his weekly commentary on the major developments.
• “‘I have to go to hospital… stop interfering with us!’ Furious motorists drag Just Stop Oil protesters out of the road while one eco activist clambers on top of a police van and glues himself to it on day nine of protests” – Dozens of protesters blocked roads in central London around the Houses of Parliament on Sunday in a bid to force Government to take action on the climate crisis, the Mail reports.
• “New Hurricane Ian Challenge: Spontaneously Combusting Electric Vehicles” – Flooded electric vehicle fires are occurring on a scale firefighters have never faced before in the wake of Hurricane Ian, according to Florida’s top fire marshal, reports WUWT.
• “Oops: Renewable Energy Costs Shut Down Solar Cell Manufacturing in Europe” – Despite green claims that renewables are the cheapest form of power, renewable manufacturers are struggling to survive Europe’s soaring energy prices, and for some reason aren’t turning to their own products for help, writes Eric Worrall in WUWT.
• “The Kerch Bridge destruction could prove a trigger point” – Former Army officer Patrick Benham-Crosswell in TCW Defending Freedom says that following the Kerch bridge attack it looks like Putin’s ‘special military operation’ is spreading quickly, and whether it stays under control is an increasingly open question.
• “Nicola Sturgeon accused of using ‘dangerous’ language after saying she ‘detests Tories’” – In the Telegraph, the First Minister proves once again that the crusaders against so-called ‘hate speech’ are peculiarly partial to some hateful speech of their own.
• “Controversial Vanderbilt University Medical Center suspends transgender operations for kids – after video emerged of hospital doctor boasting about how surgeries are ‘huge money makers’” – Vanderbilt University Medical Center announced it is suspending all transgender surgeries pending a review of its programme, the Mail reports.
• “Rowling congratulates Julie Bindel over her legal win against council” – J.K. Rowling has congratulated Julie Bindel after she won her legal case against Nottingham City Council after it cancelled an event because of her “views on transgender rights”, the Mail reports.
• “U.K. experiencing an uptick in Covid cases across communities – not unsurprising with more households mixing since schools returned” – There’s very little change in patients in critical care because of Covid, which remain “very low since Omicron hit and hardly noticeable versus earlier periods”, tweets ‘Stats Jamie’ as he attempts to spread calm.

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