News Round-Up

• “Police called in over abusive reaction to council’s ‘climate lockdown’ traffic scheme” – Draconian plans to divide Oxford residents into six climate zones have led to council chiefs calling in the police over “extreme abuse”, the Telegraph reports.
• “‘It’ll be like Cold War Berlin’: Council’s plan to carve up city into zones sparks backlash” – Residents and tourists in Canterbury will face fines for travelling across boundaries from one area to another under the proposals, and the backlash has already begun, the Telegraph reports.
• “The shabby dishonesty of Matt Hancock’s ‘diaries’” –It’s a memoir, not a diary, and it should be honest about that, says Sam Leith in the Spectator.
• “I’m 22 and the Covid vaccine has taken my life from me” – Charlotte Sinclair writes for TCW of the extreme grief she experiences for her old self now that the vaccine has left her debilitated with a serious heart condition.
• “Ricochet Replay with Jay Bhattacharya 120922” – Watch Dr. Jay Bhattacharya react to the ‘Twitter files’ revelation that he was among those being throttled because of his co-authorship of the Great Barrington Declaration.
• “How should believers in small government operate in an authoritarian age?” – Watch Dan Hannan’s recent speech to Reasoned.
• “Elton John: Why not call for government authorities to engage in a discussion?” – Steve Kirsch responds to Elton John’s statement that he is leaving Twitter over its failure to censor Covid ‘misinformation’.
• “John Kerry gets an easy ride from the climate establishment” – Ross Clark in the Spectator asks why the Tories, who have made a legally binding commitment to Net Zero, get a much harder time of it than John Kerry, whose Government has not made such a commitment.
• “Young people’s fear of climate change is endangering our future” – Gen Z are so petrified, they don’t want to have children of their own, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “Greggs introduces pronoun badges for staff” – The bakery chain is the latest business to offer workers the option to wear pronoun labels, the Telegraph reports.
• “The biggest scandal in human history is emerging from the Twitter files, and nobody’s connected the dots yet” – Jeff Childers on Coffee & Covid says the biggest scandal in the Twitter files is that Twitter did so little to censor or suppress child sexual exploitation.
• “The ‘Twitter Files’ are damning for U.S. agencies” – Charles Lipson in the Spectator says we need to know everyone who was involved on the Government side of this shameful exercise.
• “It’s actively undermining and damaging the institutions it’s being spent on” – Watch university professor Dr. James Orr reacts to a new report which reveals the higher education sector is spending £30 million on diversity.

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