News Round-Up

• “Biden gets his third booster shot and tells Americans they are putting others at risk if they don’t get latest shot: Warns there could be more deaths this winter (a month after he said pandemic was over)” – The Mail reports that President Joe Biden received his third Covid booster shot on Tuesday and encouraged all Americans to get their next shot in the arms ahead of the holidays, still frightening them with the false claim that without it they are a danger to others.
• “COVID-19: Inquiry focusing solely on safety of vaccines will not be opened, govt says” – Sky News reports that a few MPs have raised concerns in Parliament about the possible side-effects of vaccines, including what some described as data showing a correlation with increased levels of cardiovascular problems, but the Government has ruled out a separate inquiry.
• “Cardiology with Dr. Aseem Malhotra” – Watch Dr. John Campbell talk with Dr. Aseem Malhotra, physician, cardiologist, medical researcher and author, on his warnings about the adverse effects on the heart of mRNA vaccines.
• “FDA urged to publish follow-up studies on COVID-19 vaccine safety signals” – The FDA has been criticised for taking more than a year to follow up a potential increase in serious adverse events in elderly people receiving Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine and other safety signal, reports Maryanne Demasi for the BMJ.
• “COVID-19 vaccination” – Dr. Malcolm Kendrick says that the vaccines have become like a dogmatic religion where no questioning is allowed.
• “The new ‘Omicron-specific’ mRNA Covid boosters are worse than useless” – Alex Berenson reports on a new paper which says people who got them actually generated fewer antibodies to Omicron than those who got the older shots as a booster – and far fewer than people who had a natural Omicron infection.
• “Abortion, Covid and Ukraine: Meloni focuses on freedom to present her Government” – New Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has pledged never to reimpose pandemic restrictions or vaccine passports in the face of a new Covid wave, reports Il Foglio.
• “The abdication of reason, conscience and responsibility” – Richard Kelly writes that “once we accept that we are living in a totalitarian system, the way forward becomes depressingly clear”.
• “The madness of the ‘15-minute city’” – James Woudhuysen writes for Spiked that the green agenda’s vision of fining people for spending too much time away from home is taking inspiration from the illiberal days of lockdown.
• “Goldman Sachs’ Jeff Currie: ‘$3.8 Trillion of Investment in Renewables Moved Fossil Fuels from 82% to 81% of Overall Energy Consumption’ in 10 Years” – WUWT reports on the woeful difference trillions of dollars are making to the energy transition.
• “Greenland Mass Balance” – Andy May in WUWT on a particularly egregious example of media misrepresentation of climate data.
• “Meridional Transport, the most fundamental climate variable” – Andy May explains how the climate works and why carbon dioxide plays such a small role in it in WUWT.
• “Why are Europe’s gas prices falling?” – Ross Clark wonders in the Spectator whether the winter may yet turn out to be not as bad as feared – though Philip Pilkington in UnHerd still sees trouble ahead.
• “German Energy Apocalypse Update VII” – Eugyppius thinks the fact that the only published footage of the damage to the Nord Stream pipelines comes from a Swedish newspaper whose reporters dived down themselves to look, rather than through any official path, speaks volumes about the eagerness of Swedish authorities to suppress this story.
• “Oxbridge culture wars matter to all of us” – Melanie Phillips writes in the Times that a college Master’s intervention against the writer Helen Joyce shows a worrying closed-mindedness.
• “The Function of Privilege” – Bryan Caplan argues that what’s bizarre about the woke notion of ‘privilege’ is that almost anything counts.
• “Harris faces member vote on Society of Authors role amid call for free speech review” – A group of 10 members from the 12,000-member organisation, including Julie Bindel and Amanda Craig, have proposed a resolution for the upcoming AGM stating Joanne Harris’s comments and behaviour are “not compatible with the society’s goals of protecting free expression and their policy of dignity and respect” and she should leave her post, reports the Bookseller.
• “GAP rips Kanye West merchandise from their stores and removes collab website and Universal drops him – hours after Adidas terminated its partnership with the rapper over his anti-Semitic outbursts” – Kanye West could lose his billionaire status after being dropped by Adidas amid growing backlash over his anti-Semitic rants, with the brand terminating their $1.5bn deal, reports the Mail.
• “Spitting Image is cancelled after just two seasons: Flagship BritBox show resurrected 24 years after original series is canned after critics called it ‘toothless’ and ‘too woke’” – Spitting Image has not been renewed for a third series after previously being branded “toothless” and “too woke”, reports the Mail.
• “Levi’s Brand President Jennifer Sey – who was fired for speaking out against pandemic school closures – slams corporate America for using ‘woke capitalism’ for profit” – Jennifer Sey, Levi’s former Brand President, called out corporate America for engaging in “woke capitalism” to win over young consumers without ever making any meaningful changes, reports the Mail.
• “University is blasted as ‘woke’ for changing student email address format to use random letters – instead of the user’s initials – to be ‘more inclusive’ to those who are ‘assuming a new identity’” – The University of York used to use the first letters of students’ first name and surname to create their official emails and username but the organisation has now axed this practice, according to the Mail.
• “Billy Graham’s U.S. evangelical preacher son Franklin whose Glasgow event was cancelled by arena bosses over his anti-LGBT views wins £97,000 payout… after sheriff ruled he was the victim of discrimination” – Franklin Graham had been due to appear at the Hydro arena in Glasgow on May 30th 2020 as part of a wider U.K. tour, but the event was cancelled because the council belatedly decided his views were unacceptable, reports the Mail.
• “Christian school teacher loses High Court bid to overturn dismissal and lifetime classroom ban after referring to an eight-year-old trans pupil” – The judge said the application “failed to take into consideration the private life of Child X” who is “young and vulnerable”, but teacher Hannah promises to appeal, the Mail reports.
• “Pregnancy author forced to use ‘sensitivity readers’ for book on periods” – Milli Hill says she had to make compromises in her children’s book celebrating female biology, called My Period, at the demand of publisher, the Telegraph reports.
• “Nicola Sturgeon’s crusade for gender self-ID” – Tim Black in Spiked notices that the more Scots learn about trans ideology, the more they are opposed to it.
• “‘Whiteness: A Problem of Our Time’: Nurse Sues NHS For Racist Class Saying Bible & Whites Are Racist” – Watch Peter Whittle on So What You’re Saying Is interview Amy Gallagher, a Christian nurse who is suing the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust for forcing anti-white racist ideology on students.

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