News Round-Up

• “The Unforgivable Sin” – We must judge the authorities all over the world who relentlessly pumped out panic-laden false propaganda during the past three years to provoke fear and despair, writes Thorsteinn Siglaugsson in Brownstone.
• “Vaccinated Blood is Contaminated with Covid Vaccine mRNA, Study Finds” – Is “Vaccinated Blood” Safe, asks Igor Chudov.
• “What Happened at Georgetown Law with Covid?” – For questioning Covid restrictions, Georgetown Law suspended William Spruance from campus, forced him to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, required him to waive his right to medical confidentiality, and threatened to report him to state bar associations, according to Spruance’s own account in Brownstone.
• “Britain’s energy market is blatantly rigged” – We must tackle the marginal pricing racket to end the scandal of overpriced energy, says Liam Halligan in the Telegraph.
• “Sea Level Rise will Cause ‘Mass exodus on a biblical scale’” – In UN fantasy land, rising sea levels will cause a mass exodus from London, New York and Shanghai, and “ever fiercer competition” for resources, according to WUWT.
• “Tory leader suspends councillor who called his traffic scheme ‘crazy’” – Tory council leader Ben Fitter-Harding has suspended Cllr Colin Spooner for criticising the deeply unpopular traffic zones scheme that would stop people driving directly from one area of Canterbury to another, the Telegraph reports.
• “I fear my liberal parenting led to son becoming Jihadi Jack” – In a new autobiography, the mother of the suspected Islamic State fighter known as Jihadi Jack says she wonders if her “over-liberal” parenting style may have ultimately driven her son, Jack Letts, to leave the U.K. to live under Isis’s so-called caliphate, the Times report.
• “Tavistock trans clinic ‘still treating children’ despite closure order” – The Tavistock Centre was ordered to close its doors in July after a damning report found it was “not safe” for children, yet up to 1,000 children are still “receiving treatment” at the facility and about 8,000 remain on the waiting list for the Gender Identity Development Service (Gids), the Mail reports.
• “Salman Rushdie leads backlash against ‘woke’ publishing censors” – Salman Rushdie calls the appalling edits to Roald Dahl’s books “absurd censorship”, and says “Puffin Books and the Dahl estate should be ashamed”, the Mail reports.
• “The butchering of Roald Dahl is an assault on liberty by a neurotic elite” – The wokesters censor words in the name of wellbeing, but our culture and children are less well now than before, writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
• “Starmer says voters will see Labour with ‘fresh eyes’ after Sturgeon” – Speaking at Scottish Labour’s conference in Edinburgh, Keir Starmer repeated his vow not to do an election deal with the SNP, but completely avoided the transgender row, the Mail reports.
• “Boris Johnson wants to ‘bring down Rishi Sunak’, says George Osborne” – The former chancellor claims the ex-PM wants the keys to No 10 back and “will use any instrument to do it” including Brexit negotiations, according to the Telegraph.
• “Students turning back on ‘bullying’ cancel culture, Harvard professor believes” – Professor Arthur Brooks says the woke “wave has crested and there’s much more interest in the good life, the whole life”, according to the Telegraph.
• “Stephen Fry accused of making inappropriate jokes at cricket dinner” – Stephen Fry is the subject of a formal complaint after being accused of making misogynistic and racist jokes at a cricketing dinner at Lord’s, according to the Times.
• “ChatGPT is biased and offensive, creators admit” – The creators of ChatGPT have admitted that its artificial intelligence is “politically biased, offensive, or otherwise objectionable”, the Times reports.
• “School staff would ‘not feel comfortable’ working with Enoch Burke if he returns” – Enoch Burke, the dismissed teacher at the centre of a transgender row, is expected to return to Wilson’s Hospital School next week, but staff at the school would not feel comfortable working with him again, the Times reports.
• “ChatGPT will tell a joke in the style of Seinfeld, but not Dave Chappelle” – The woke bot says “humour should be fun and inclusive, not hurtful and divisive”.

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