News Round-Up

• “Disease X Is a High-Return Business Strategy” – Dr. David Bell writes for the Brownstone Institute that ‘Disease X’ is a business strategy dressed up as an altruistic concern for human welfare – and it is based on a series of fallacies.
• “Green Party mask fanatic predicts that a ‘Covid Fall’ awaits us, calls upon Germans to resume masking” – They will try to bring back masking, but it’s not going to happen, says Eugyppius.
• “New Study Suggests Global Warming Could be Mostly an Urban Problem” – WUWT reports on a new peer-reviewed study that sheds light on the urban heat bias in the temperature record and the role of the sun in recent warming.
• “Sunak to defy Net Zero demand to halt airport expansion” – Rishi Sunak will face down the Government’s climate advisers over demands for ministers to halt the expansion of airports, according to the Telegraph.
• “Half of Britons too worried about cost of living to consider climate change” – More than half of British people are too concerned about the cost of living to worry about climate change, a new poll reported in the Telegraph suggests.
• “Property owners who don’t comply with new energy rules may face prison” – Property owners who fail to comply with new energy efficiency rules could face prison under Government plans that have sparked a backlash from Tory MPs, says the Telegraph.
• “Tesla breaks down mid-turn and causes more than nine hours of travel chaos” – The £60,000 electric car ran out of power and became stranded, blocking the busy A36 near Salisbury, reports the Telegraph.
• “Sadiq Khan deploys Ulez vans after vigilantes attack cameras” – Sadiq Khan has deployed a fleet of 20 Ulez camera vans to catch motorists after vandals attacked enforcement cameras across London, the Telegraph reports.
• “Children must not change gender at school, Tavistock whistleblowers tell Rishi Sunak” – Whistleblowers of the Tavistock clinic have told Rishi Sunak that children must not be allowed to change their gender at school, reports the Telegraph.
• “Belgium to stop providing shelter for single male asylum seekers” – Belgium has said it will no longer provide shelter for single male asylum seekers in order to prevent women and children from being left on the streets this winter, according to the Telegraph. Looks like someone needs to tell the U.K. Government it can stop fussing over hotels and barges and just follow this model.
• “Beyond reasonable doubt? Statistics, confessions, and the campaign to free Lucy Letby” – The Herald‘s Helen McArdle outlines the problems with the case against Letby raised by various experts.
• “Retired social worker, 73, is quizzed in her own home by hate-crime police for taking a photo of a sticker that said: ‘Keep males out of women-only spaces’” – The incident happened in Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire, according to the Mail, where officers told the pensioner that she had been identified from CCTV footage. Chilling.
• “Rights watchdog reviews pro-trans advice on school changing rooms” – The equalities regulator EHRC is overhauling “out of date” guidance which suggested it could be illegal to bar schoolchildren who want to change gender from using changing rooms of the opposite sex, the Telegraph reports.
• “My editor trashed my inquiry into child sexual abuse. Now I know why” – Dean Nelson in the Guardian says with the conviction of Peter Wilby for possessing child abuse images it’s now clear why his editor, who was being advised by Wilby, rejected his inquiries into abuse.
• “Inside Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover — by his confidant” – What was going on inside the mogul’s mind as he launched his shock $44 billion acquisition? Walter Isaacson, his biographer and confidant, gives insight in the Times.

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