News Round-Up

• “Audio of daughter welded into her home by Beijing officials, pleading to be released after her mother jumped to her death when latest lockdown drove her to despair, sparks fury in China” – The 55-year-old, Mrs Wang, died in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, on November 4th, according to the Mail.
• “Chinese exports fall for the first time since 2020 as Xi Jinping persists with Zero Covid” – The country’s economic struggles continue as a Covid outbreak hits a key iPhone factory, the Telegraph reports.
• “Child speech delays increase following lockdowns” – Pupils needing language support rises by 10% in post-pandemic school starters, BBC analysis finds.
• “The Dog that Didn’t Bark” – Bill Rice Jr. takes a deep dive into the studies that show clear evidence of significant levels of COVID-19 antibodies in the U.S., France and Italy in 2019 and early 2020, indicating a substantial but silent autumn and winter wave.
• “Report into Canada’s Freedom Convoy finds no violence after all” – The inquiry has not justified invoking the Emergencies Act, says Leila Mechoui in UnHerd.
• “German doctors lament ‘stagnating’ vaccination campaign as the Health Ministry sits on millions of doses that will never be administered” – Eugyppius is pleased, and amused, by the news.
• “The Definitive Guide to Excess Death During the Covid Era” – Joel Smalley with a summary of excess deaths from around the world that finds Sweden coming out best. See also Joel’s analysis that finds a worrisome link with Covid vaccination campaigns.
• “Before Fauci, There Was Comte” – A look at the history of political thought suggests that technocratic moralism isn’t such a new phenomenon, writes Greg Konti in Compact Magazine.
• “Effects of COVID-19 and Human Interventions in Care Homes: Part 2” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson on the scandal of the care homes, where many additional deaths were not related to Covid.
• “EU Vaccination Roadmap, 2018-2022” – Dr. Robert Malone sets out the timeline from official EU documents proving that the bloc’s vaccination passport scheme has been years in the making.
• “Board-Certified Obstetrician cries ‘Stop’” – Dr. Robert Malone with a guest post from Dr. James Thorp, who writes that promoting SARS-CoV-2 genetic vaccination in pregnancy is an unprecedented ethical breach.
• “The Republicans will come for the FBI after the midterms” – Roger Kimball writes in the Spectator that people are not about to forget what the politicians and their bureaucrats just did to them, “and if they do not forget, neither will they forgive”.
• “Effects on mother and child that bear out Mike Yeadon’s warnings” – Neville Hodgkinson in TCW Defending Freedom with an overview of the worrying vaccine safety data for pregnant and nursing women and their babies.
• An Existential Threat to Doing Good Science” – “What scientists are able to teach and what research we can pursue are under attack. I know because I’m living it”, writes biologist Luana Maroja in Common Sense.
• “Has Big Pharma Hijacked Evidence-Based Medicine?” – Sign up for the in-person event in London on Monday with Dr. Aseem Malhotra and Dr. John Campbell.
• “COP27: Rishi Sunak rebuffs predecessor Liz Truss with vow to get U.K. off polluting fossil fuels and turn it into a ‘clean energy superpower’” – Sky News suggests that the PM will hope his comments pave the way for negotiations at COP27, but the Government may still issue new permits to harvest more oil and gas from the North Sea, counter to its climate targets.
• “The big green question: can we risk growth?” – “COP27 is starting to look like a losers’ convention and even Greta isn’t going,” writes Dominic Lawson in the Times, as he succinctly sets out the problems with Net Zero and renewable energy .
• “‘We don’t listen to Greta Thunberg,’ says Ryanair chief Michael O’Leary” – The ‘flight-shaming’ movement has had little impact on aviation, the CEO says as the airline posts record profits, reports the Telegraph.
• “Ban on onshore wind farms stays as Rishi Sunak axes Liz Truss policy ” – Building new onshore wind farms will remain banned in England after Rishi Sunak scrapped another Liz Truss policy, reports the Mail.
• “Eco-reparations folly would cost us dear ” – Ed Miliband’s demand for Britain to pay reparations to poor countries “suffering the effects of global warming” is as absurd as his Climate Change Act was disastrous, says the Mail in a leading article.
• “Bright green: the case for eco-optimism” – Fraser Nelson in the Spectator makes the case against climate doomerism.
• “Tokyo Mean October Mean Temperature Has Been Falling for Decades” – This October, according to the data from the Japan Meteorological Agency, the mean temperature in Tokyo came in at 17.2°C, making it it one of the coolest over the past decades, writes Pierre Gosselin on WUWT.
• “Net Zero for Net Zero Campaign” – Brainfart Policy proposes that any Government actions on Net Zero emissions should be ones which have net zero cost i.e., which make sense financially.
• “Stanford student to take legal action over free speech complaints” – A group of students at Stanford University say they plan to take legal action over the school’s alleged suppression of free speech, reports the Mail.
• “Donors can hit woke universities where it hurts” – Douglas Murray in the Telegraph argues that money talks, and furious alumni are making their voices heard, but it is only the beginning of the fightback.
• “How the woke Left stoked a New York crime wave” – Ahead of the midterm elections crime has become a major issue for New Yorkers, says Steven Edgington in the Telegraph.
• “The new Online Safety Bill is just as disastrous as the last” – Whatever reassuring language Sunak may use, the Bill still leans on the side of ‘if in doubt, censor’, says Matthew Lesh in the Telegraph.
• “Whoopi Goldberg and Gigi Hadid delete their Twitter accounts after Elon Musk’s takeover – but a string of woke celebs, including Shonda Rhimes and Toni Braxton have kept theirs open despite vowing to leave” – Whoopi Goldberg closed her Twitter account following a monologue on the View which said the platform was a “mess”, reports the Mail.
• “They should be thanking us. Not asking us for compensation” – Toby and GB News‘s Mark Steyn discuss COP27 and the suggestion Britain should pay reparations for the industrial revolution.

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