News Round-Up

• “China says it’s beaten Covid. So is the pandemic now an excuse to control its population?” – Philip Sherwell writes in the Times that the public is starting to realise that keeping the policy of zero infection is about politics, surveillance and control.
• “Comparison of European deaths” – HART looks at excess deaths and vaccination coverage in Europe and finds some surprising results.
• “Sweden or the world: which was a cautionary tale?” – The threat that drove us to lockdown was massively overblown and Sweden proves it, writes Dr. Eyal Shahar.
• “Fertility declines near the end of the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence of the 2022 birth declines in Germany and Sweden” – German Government report on the large drop in births nine months after the vaccinations, pinning the blame on behaviour change around vaccination.
• “How the GOP Won Over a Liberal Canadian” – Gabrielle Bauer writes in the Wall Street Journal that the new Left’s embrace of authoritarianism led her to question old loyalties.
• “Net Zero evangelists need a reality check” – There is a crying need for a more pragmatic and planned approach to achieving climate goals, says Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
• “The SNP’s misinformation campaign on Scottish renewables” – The SNP claims that Scotland has 25% of Europe’s off-shore wind capacity, but this statistic may not be as credible as first thought, writes John Ferry in the Spectator.
• “Fed up with Just Stop Oil eco-zealots? Blame Tony Blair” – Peter Hitchens in the Mail argues Blair is to blame for the Just Stop Oil fanatics being able to cause so much chaos.
• “Four Hundred Private Jets Attended the COP27 Climate Conference” – Climate hypocrisy on steroids, says Eric Worrrall in WUWT, as 400 delegates and their retinues arrived by CO2 spewing private jets to discuss how to restrict everyone else’s CO2 emissions.
• “Nitrous Oxide and Climate” – Gregory R. Wrightstone writes in WUWT on the new CO2 Coalition report that sets out why it’s unnecessary and harmful to reduce nitrous oxide emissions.
• “The land needs love, not globalism” – Sean Walsh in TCW Defending Freedom argues there is a globalist agenda in play, “and the fact that we are aggressively dissuaded from using that word affirms the effectiveness of its primary authors”.
• “Nigel Farage-led party would attract more than a quarter of voters, poll reveals” – A new poll shows that 12% of the public would be very interested in backing a new Farage venture if it were launched next year, while 16% would be quite interested.
• “Does Eddie Izzard think all migrants should think alike?” – Supposedly liberal politicians need to stop chiding ethnic minorities for disagreeing with them about immigration, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.

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