News Round-Up

• “How lockdown may have damaged babies’ ability to talk, point and wave” – Lack of social interaction because of Covid restrictions leaves children struggling to communicate, a study finds, as reported in the Telegraph.
• “More Britons than ever are out of work due to long-term sickness” –  New figures reveal that those inactive due to illness have hit a record high of two and a half million people, writes Michael Simmons in the Spectator.
• “Now over-50s can get a Covid booster” – The Mail reports on the widening of the autumn booster programme.
• “CDC Won’t Release Review of Post-Vaccination Heart Inflammation” – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will not release its review of post-COVID-19-vaccination heart inflammation, according to the Epoch Times.
• “Reinstate no-jab care staff, Ms Coffey, and put Javid to shame” – Kathy Gyngell in TCW Defending Freedom draws attentions to the plea from the Together campaign to the new Health Secretary to right a wrong.
• “Forty-Two Volunteers Snort AstraZeneca Intramuscular Vector Vaccine, Fail to Develop Mucosal Immunity” – Eugyppius on the disappointing results of AstraZeneca’s nasal vaccine.
• “The SARS-CoV-2 transmission riddle – Part 8” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson with the latest insights from vintage studies on transmission of influenza-like illness.
• “The evolution of the bourla virus” – El Gato Malo with a timely reminder of the Pfizer CEO’s ever-shifting statements about the effectiveness of his company’s vaccine.
• “Behind every great fortune…” – “You know the mRNA Covid vaccines made lots of money for Pfizer, Moderna, and BioNTech, but did you have any idea how much?” asks Alex Berenson.
• “FDA Just Approved Kids Covid Booster – with Zero Testing!” – Igor Chudov observes that even testing it on a few mice was too much this time.
• “Paul Offit admits on video there are no benefits of the new booster shots” – Steve Kirsch invites readers to watch a video of one of the world’s most respected vaccinologists admitting that there are no benefits to the boosters.
• “Investigating the Florida mRNA vaccine study” – Freddie Sayers on UnHerd speaks to a couple of what he calls ‘vaccine-centrist’ scientists who criticise the Florida mRNA study into heart deaths.
• “Net Zero puritans don’t want you to hear the truth” – We are told to change lifestyles to reduce carbon emissions, yet this will only contribute 10% to meeting climate change targets, says Peter Lilley in the Telegraph.
• “New Zealand proposes taxing cow burps to reduce emissions” – Yet more punitive green measures, reported in BBC News.
• “The West is on the road to energy ruin” – Emmet Penney argues in the Spectator that the choice we face should be obvious: “One road leads toward liberty and abundance, another leads toward tyranny and austerity.”
• “‘I should have never done this’: Transgender patients reveal their regret over NHS sex change operations and why they ‘detransitioned’ after they were ‘rushed’ into life-changing procedures” – Ritchie and Amber reveal to the Mail their intense regret at having gone through the life-changing procedures and claim they were rushed into them.
• “Liz Truss backs police probe into controversial trans charity Mermaids” – Liz Truss has appeared to back calls for a police investigation into controversial transgender children’s charity Mermaids following a raft of allegations about the organisation, the Mail reports.
• “So much for the crackdown on wokery! UKHSA is recruiting a £46,000-a-year ‘diversity and inclusion advisor’” – Despite telling the NHS to cut down the jobs, the civil service has just advertised for one paying up to £46,000, reports the Mail.
• “Plans to crown Camilla with controversial diamond coronet may be axed” – Plans for the Queen Consort to be crowned using regalia containing the controversial Koh-i-Noor diamond may be axed because of “political sensitivities”, according to the Mail, as cancel culture comes to the Coronation.
• “Why is Graham Norton defending cancel culture?” – His tirade against John Cleese was clueless and unedifying, says Gareth Roberts in Spiked.
• “The PayPal Fiasco Was No Accident” – PayPal “showed its hand and revealed a much deeper and scarier plan that relates to the Biden administration’s intention to create a new central bank digital currency,” writes Jeffrey Tucker in the Epoch Times. “This will be programmable money, one that would allow a ruling elite to cut off your means to live if they so choose.”
• “J.K. Rowling’s brave trans stand has been vindicated” – Every day brings new reasons to thank the Harry Potter writer for fighting extreme gender ideology, says Madeline Grant in the Telegraph.

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