News Round-Up

• “Patients wait two and a half days for an ambulance as NHS crisis deepens” – There have been 50,000 extra deaths from heart attacks and strokes since the start of the pandemic while 999 calls take up to 52 minutes to be answered, reports the Telegraph.
• “Tens of thousands of children could be suffering with rotting teeth” – The number of extractions in hospital has dropped by more than half during the Covid pandemic, the Mail reports.
• “Vaccines, the antibody myth and the dangers the drugs giants knew about” – Stephen McMurray in TCW Defending Freedom looks at the insufficiently appreciated problem of antibody dependent enhancement of disease.
• “A picture tells a thousand words: or does it?” – Jonathan Engler writes for PANDA that differences in death rates by vaccination status in U.S. counties appear to show a strong vaccine benefit – until you compare them to the pre-vaccination death rates in the same counties and find little change.
• “Rishi Sunak: fighting climate change is more than just a ‘moral good’” – Speaking before the COP27 summit, the Prime Minister says progress on environmental issues is vital for Britain’s future prosperity and security, according to the Telegraph. Oh dear.
• “Biden: Coal Plants ‘All Across America’ will be Shut Down, Replaced by Solar and Wind” – Eric Worrall in WUWT reports that President Biden announced the entire coal industry is shutting down because coal is too expensive and unreliable – though the White House subsequently rowed back on the statement.
• “Climate change protests sweeps Europe: Eco-fanatics block flights” – Environmental activists wearing white overalls stormed an area holding private jets at Schiphol Airport before military police moved in and were seen taking dozens of the protesters away in buses, reports the Mail.
• “At last, sceptics are shunning the climate scaremongers” – Philip Patrick in TCW Defending Freedom looks at encouraging new polling showing people are becoming less worried about climate change.
• “Media Must Take Responsibility For Greta Climate Panic” – Overconfident and smug, Thunberg inadvertently let her green mask slip at a book event in Britain, and now some in the news media are turning against her, writes Michael Shellenberger.
• “Net Zero is ruining the Great British Bonfire Night” – A number of local authorities are citing Net Zero as a reason to end their traditional bonfire night displays, the Telegraph reports.
• “Rishi Sunak bringing back Bill of Rights to resolve migrant clash with European court” – The law will secure the supremacy of U.K. rulings over Strasbourg after an intervention stopped asylum seeker flights to Rwanda taking off, reports the Telegraph.
• “Britain has lost control of its borders” – Matt Goodwin says this will soon have a profound impact on our politics.
• “Just one in five of Generation Woke admire Churchill, poll reveals” – He has been voted the greatest Briton of all time – a heroic wartime leader who took on Hitler against the odds – but Winston Churchill, it seems, is no longer so universally admired, reports the Mail.
• “Academics demand apology from LSE over ‘hostile environment for gender-critical staff and students’” – An open letter by leading scholars condemns an ‘ideological cabal’ at the university’s gender studies department, the largest in the U.K., the Telegraph reports.
• “Cambridge college master emails alumni after donors pull funding over her criticism of gender-critical speaker” – Professor Rogerson refused to apologise but acknowledged there were “difficult and complex discussions” around transgender matters, reports the Telegraph.
• “Trans criminals can use ‘loophole’ to hide previous convictions when applying for jobs” – A report by Keep Prisons Single Sex warns the system could be “abused” by those wanting to gain access to children and vulnerable young people, reports the Telegraph.
• “Transgender paedophile duped staff for 71-day stay at women’s refuge” – Male paedophile Katie Dolatowski, 22, duped staff into letting him stay at a Leeds domestic violence refuge for women and children for 71 days, the Mail reports.
• “Retired Consultant Paediatrician Dr. Ros Jones joins Neil Oliver to explain why a group of U.K. doctors and scientists have asked AstraZeneca to release data detailing the research in advance of the rollout of their Covid vaccine” – Watch the retired medic talk to GB News‘s Neil Oliver.

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