News Round-Up

• “Children will never recover from the terrible cost of lockdown” – Former SAGE committee member Robert Dingwall writes in the Telegraph that the risks to childhood development were spelled out from the beginning of the pandemic and were largely ignored.
• “Covid caused death of 20 healthy children and teens in U.K. during first two years” – The Telegraph reports on new data which show that all but 20 of the 185 people under the age of 20 who died after being infected had serious underlying health conditions.
• “China Weighs Gradual Zero-Covid Exit but Proceeds With Caution, Without Timeline” – Chinese leaders are considering steps toward reopening after nearly three years of tough pandemic restrictions but are proceeding slowly, according to the Wall Street Journal. After all, what’s the rush?
• “NHS flu jab blunder fears: Over-65s may have been given wrong vaccine” – A “small number” of people who have received an autumn flu jab have mistakenly been given a standard egg culture influenza vaccine, NHS England said, according to the Mail.
• “No, Let’s Not: Perpetrators of Pandemic Authoritarianism Cannot Be Forgiven” – Allen Farrington writes in Merion West that it must “become embarrassing to admit one ever supported uninformed and nonconsensual participation in a medical experiment or mass house arrest and coerced isolation”.
• “The SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Riddle – Part 12” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson on the role of fomites (surfaces, objects etc.) in transmission.
• “A glimmer of integrity returns to the English GP network” – Joel Smalley reports on a recent email telling GPs about how to use the Yellow Card adverse event reporting system.
• “Who watches the watchmen?” – The Health Advisory and Recovery Team (HART) responds to a ‘fact check’ criticising the two recent peer-reviewed vaccine papers by Dr. Aseem Malhotra.
• “We don’t owe developing countries ‘climate reparations’ – they owe us” – Allison Pearson in the Telegraph is incredulous that “we are on the hook for untold billions to countries experiencing adverse weather conditions, because we invented factories and cars”.
• “What did the Industrial Revolution ever do for us?” – Laura Dodsworth on the “Monty Pythonesque demands for climate reparations”.
• “‘Climate reparations’ won’t help the developing world” – Fraser Myers in Spiked says that what poorer nations need is industrial revolutions all of their own.
• “Britain would be wrong to pay climate change reparations” – Ross Clark in the Spectator says that while aid to poorer countries to help them prepare for future disasters is fine, the idea of tying massive payments to a spurious notion of reparations is not.
• “Energy crisis? What energy crisis?” – Andy Shaw writes in Spiked that politicians need to come clean about the high price we have paid for embracing ‘green energy’.
• “Eco-loonyism is an upper-middle-class rite of passage” – Gareth Roberts argues in the Spectator that “eco-loonyism is not about saving the planet, or even overthrowing society, at all. It has no possibility of achieving its aims by protest”.
• “How IPCC’s 1990 Predictions Expensively Failed” – Christopher Monckton in WUWT says it is “high time someone examined IPCC’s medium-term predictions to shed light on the plausibility of its long-term predictions”.
• “A few graphs say it all for Weather-Dependent ‘Renewables’” – Ed Hoskins crunches the numbers to show why solar and wind don’t cut the mustard.
• “97% Consensus on Climate Change? Survey Shows Only 59% of Scientists Expect Significant Harm” – A new poll of scientists conducted by Fairleigh Dickinson University found that only 59% of respondents think global climate change will cause “significant harm” to the “living conditions for people alive today”, reports WUWT.
• “Labour revives ID cards idea to help control immigration” – A Labour Government could introduce ‘basic’ ID cards to help to count how many people there are in Britain and reduce illegal immigration, reports the Times.
• “Growth and Censorship don’t Mix” – Dr. Mark Shaw in Left Lockdown Sceptics highlights the importance of free debate and non-censorship in creating the current financial crisis.
• “Twitter tells advertisers that user growth is at ‘all-time highs’ under Elon Musk” – Twitter hasn’t seen a mass exodus due to Musk, but will it be enough for advertisers to come back, asks the Verge.
• “Why advertisers leaving Twitter benefits Elon Musk” – Philip Pilkington argues in UnHerd that a new model is required to insulate the company from activist pressure.
• “Elon Musk and the revenge of the gatekeepers” – Frank Furedi in Spiked writes that a coalition of big business, the media and NGOs is trying to thwart Musk’s plans.
• “Covid truth and reconciliation” – Ben Sixsmith in the Critic says we must learn the lessons of our pandemic response, not just forgive and forget.
• “Since the start of the Covid pandemic, 30,000 people with heart problems have died ‘needlessly’” – Watch me talk to TalkTV‘s Julia Hartley-Brewer about what role the vaccines might have played.

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