News Round-Up

• “Number dying due to Covid jumps 57% in a week” – Data from the Office for National Statistics show that 74 people died due to Covid in the seven days to August 11th, marking a 57.4% increase on the previous week, reports the Mail.
• “Flu jab and Covid booster programme brought forward in England due to new Covid variant” – This year’s autumn flu and COVID-19 booster programme has been pulled forward by a month in England due to concerns about the new variant, reports ITV News.
• “The Royal Society’s lockdown pseudoscience” – The Royal Society of London, a once venerable scientific institution, has ignored all of the real-world evidence against the Covid restrictions, writes David Livermore in Spiked.
• “Scientist who peer reviewed Ulez report in research group funded by City Hall” – A scientist who “independently peer reviewed” a paper used to justify the Ulez expansion scheme is a member of a group that has received funding from the Mayor’s office, says the Telegraph.
• “‘Blade Runners’ attack Ulez cameras on expansion day” – Protesters carried out a ‘night of the long knives’ the evening before the extension of London’s Ulez, using extendable secateurs, angle grinders and water pistols to disable dozens of enforcement cameras, reports the Times.
• “‘Blade Runners’ leader says smashing cameras is ‘voluntary work’” – An anti-Ulez vigilante has described vandalising cameras across London as “unpaid voluntary work” as he called on motorists to fight the £12.50 daily charge, reports the Mail.
• “It’s not a conspiracy theory – there really is a war on the car” – Sadiq Khan’s expansion of Ulez speaks to the elite’s contempt for the freedom to drive, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Ulez expansion is wasting police time, Sadiq Khan told” – Politicians have complained that police resources are being diverted to investigate attacks on Ulez cameras rather than on more serious crimes, according to the Telegraph.
• “A dozen Labour candidates at next election back Ulez and other schemes” – A dozen Labour candidates at the next general election are current or former councillors at London town halls which backed anti-car measures such as Ulez, says the Mail.
• “London’s revolt against the Ulez scam is set to shatter politics as we know it” – The Tories should urgently pull out the stops to back Susan Hall, the one woman who can defeat Sadiq Khan, argues Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
• “Paedophile changes gender before court case” – A male paedophile caught with indecent images of children claims to be a woman on the eve of his trial, reports the Telegraph.
• “Firefighters urged to use gender-neutral language during callouts” – Kent Fire and Rescue Service staff are being encouraged to use inclusive language with members of the public to ‘embrace diversity’, says the Mail.
• “The NHS doesn’t need to be an ‘LGBTQ+ ally’” – Trust in the NHS has collapsed and one of the reasons for this is a failure to consult the public, writes Joan Smith in UnHerd.
• “Why is Reading Festival policing cultural appropriation?” – Petty identitarians want to ruin the summer festival season, says Angie Speaks in Spiked.
• “‘I wanna be black’: The perils of self-identification” – Nowadays it seems that anyone can self-identify as black regardless of their race or ethnicity, writes Manick Govinda in the Critic.
• “U.S. professor accused of faking Native American heritage resigns” – A U.S. professor, accused of fraudulently claiming to be of Native American heritage, has agreed to resign after complaints from colleagues, reports the Times.
• “Lionel Shriver: ‘Free speech doesn’t exist in the U.K. now’” – Bestselling author Lionel Shriver says in the Evening Standard that she’ll never stop defending our right to hold “unpopular” opinions.
• “It’s wrong to lie to children” – The take-over of schools by gender identity ideology has happened on the Tories’ watch, says Stephanie Davies-Arai in the Critic.
• “The new front in the war against HIV” – Gender-affirming care is being proposed as a solution to Aids, writes Róisín Michaux in UnHerd.
• “Equalitarianism and its consequences” – The core flaw in ‘wokeism’ is the assumption that any disparity in outcomes between demographic groups is solely due to societal factors, argues Bo Winegard in Aporia.
• “Australia’s first female Prime Minister fails to answer ‘what is a woman?’” – Sky News has footage of former Prime Minister Julia Gillard unable to answer the question: “What is a woman?”
• “How does Julia Gillard not know what a woman is?” – Australia’s first female Prime Minister has become the latest politician to pander to gender-identity dogma, laments Raquel Rosario Sanchez in Spiked.
• “What happened to Canada’s ‘mass graves’?” – The conspiracy theory about “mass graves” at Canada’s infamous residential schools continues to unravel, writes Kevin Yuill in Spiked.
• “Trans teacher known for massive prosthetic breasts returning to Canadian classroom” – A Canadian trans teacher, who became infamous for wearing massive prosthetic Z-cup breasts to class, is reportedly returning to the classroom, according to Fox News.
• “Canada’s conservatives fight back against progressive school policies” – Education has become ground zero in Canada’s culture wars, writes Eric Kaufman in UnHerd.
• “Penn State professor says school forced him to teach that the English language is ‘white supremacy’” – Zack De Piero, a Penn State professor, is suing his former employer for allegedly fostering a racially hostile work environment which blasted white people as “problematic”, says Fox News.
• “Saudi retired teacher sentenced to death for criticising ruling family on social media” – A Saudi court has sentenced a retired teacher to death for criticising the ruling family in messages to his nine social media followers, reports the Telegraph.
• “Professor Angus Dalgleish: ‘Bill Gates has done more damage to the world’s health than probably any other individual’” – Prof. Angus Dalgleish tells Dr. Ahmad Malik exactly what he thinks of Bill Gates’s global vaccine drive.

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