News Round-Up

• “Doctor Calls for Withdrawal of Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines Following New Research” – A doctor based in Louisiana says it’s time to halt the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines until new clinical trials prove the benefits outweigh the harms, writes Zachary Stieber for Epoch Times.
• “Insider reveals truth about COVID-19 pandemic from within the National Health Service” – An ex-director at one of the largest hospital trusts in the U.K. has revealed to the Naked Emperor what really happened during the pandemic.
• “School strikes would be a disaster for the lockdown generation” – Children paid the price to keep us all safe. Their education mustn’t be further disrupted, says Rachel de Souza in the Telegraph.
• “Barely anyone aged 18-49 in Ireland takes second Covid booster” – Up to 97 per cent of those eligible in Ireland’s 18-49 age group have not had their second Covid booster, according to Julieanne Corr in the Sunday Times.
• “NHS ‘bed-blocking’ fuelled by 50 steps needed to discharge fit patients” – On average, around 14,000 patients deemed fit to leave hospital are stuck in beds every day, writes Lizzie Roberts in the Telegraph.
• “Public faith in the NHS collapses” – Voters are losing faith in the NHS amid record waiting lists and ambulance delays, reports the Times.
• “Britain will pay the price of demonising fossil fuels for a decade to come” – The current crisis has exposed the fragility of our energy system, writes Tony Hayward in the Telegraph.
• “Hundreds of residents threaten council with legal action over new LTN” – Hundreds of residents in Dulwich Village have threatened to sue council chiefs for “forcing” a new low traffic neighbourhood scheme upon them, writes Ewan Somerville in the Telegraph.
• “Wrong, Washington Post, ‘Less Warming,’ Won’t Result in Greater Climate Disasters” – There are a plethora of false claims and faulty reasoning in the Washington Post’s recent article, according to Anthony Watts in WUWT.
• “Follow the Science™” – The authoritarian Left and wokeism have corrupted science, according to Euphoric Recall.
• “Labour’s Starmer admits to ‘concerns’ over Scottish trans law” – Even Starmer is against Sturgeon’s mad Gender Recognition Reform Bill, the Mail reports.
• “Rishi Sunak set to ban ‘abhorrent’ conversion therapy” – PM is expected to ban both homosexual and transgender conversion therapy, reversing Boris Johnson’s move to scale back the intervention, writes Ben Riley-Smith in the Telegraph.
• “Government seeks deal with Tory rebels over Online Safety Bill” – Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan is considering concessions as rebels are told to hold firm over ”threat of personal criminal liability” for tech directors, writes Will Hazell in the Telegraph.
• “‘The worst of all despotisms is the heartless tyranny of ideas’” – Journalist, author and historian Paul Johnson has died, aged 94. He was one of the most notable British journalists who moved from Left to Right, writes Ed West.
• “Entryism didn’t die alongside the Soviet Union. It is alive and busy” – Either we make an effort to restore the democratic integrity of public debate, or we allow subversion by tiny minorities to shut it down altogether, writes Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
• “Labour remains a paid-up member of ‘claptrap’ Stonewall diversity scheme” – Labour insists Stonewall’s involvement is needed to ‘promote inclusion’, even though Government departments have quit amid fears over charity’s impartiality, writes Dominic Penna in the Telegraph.
• “The war on J.K. Rowling” – A Toronto ‘book artist’ called Laur Flom has been rebinding Harry Potter books without the author’s name on the cover, and charging £140 a pop, writes Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
• “Sebastian Croft addresses backlash over his role in Harry Potter game” – Another ungrateful pubescent actor disavows J.K. Rowling, as Sebastian Croft says he signed up for his upcoming role in the Harry Potter game Hogwarts Legacy “long before he was aware of J.K. Rowling’s views”.
• “How the culture war went global” – Authoritarians the world over are weaponising wokeness, writes Doug Stokes in Spiked.
• “Biological male announces it’s all about women at Miss Universe” – fans of the Weekly Sceptic can definitely look forward to this fine example of ‘Peak Woke’.

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