News Round-Up

• “Now scientists say Long Colds exist” – British scientists say ‘long colds’ exist and claim they are just as common as Long Covid, reports the Mail.
• “Fears vulnerable Brits won’t be best protected against Covid” – Experts have warned that the decision to accelerate the autumn Covid and flu vaccine rollouts increased anxiety over the virus, says the Mail.
• “Why a reckoning over the mRNAs is so unlikely” – Most people are happy to have Covid behind them. They aren’t getting more jabs, but they would rather believe they did the right thing than worry they didn’t, writes Alex Berenson on Substack.
• “Biden admin goes full Orwell denying vax mandates ever happened” – The U.S. Government, and many state governments, are proclaiming, for all to hear, that they did not force anyone to take th Covid vaccines, says ZeroHedge.
• “How STIs reached record levels in ‘sexually-liberal’ Britain” – Gonorrhoea and syphilis have bounced back from relative obscurity in the U.K., causing concern among experts, reports the Telegraph.
• “Fury as string of public bodies develop ‘male menopause policies’” – In what critics are describing as a “further erosion of women’s rights”, a string of public bodies have drawn up ‘woke’ protocols that insist “men may also experience menopause symptoms”, says the Mail.
• “Calculator Keir and his questionable maths” – Starmer seems to think charging VAT on private school fees and charging the schools business rates will raise £1.7 billion. But his sums don’t add up, writes Mr. Chips on Substack.
• “The SNP hegemony in Scotland is over” – The Rutherglen result confirms the run of opinion polls showing that Labour is back in contention and that the SNP’s decade-long hegemony is over, says Iain Macwhirter in the Spectator.
• “Government’s rape tsar quits and says there is ‘no point’ to reporting” – The Government’s rape tsar has told MailOnline she has been left feeling there is “no point” in reporting a rape to the police because they “won’t do anything about it”.
• “Can pluralism be low-crime?” – The aggregate feeling of having been left by our leaders to rot amid a disintegrating social contract is not a confection of the Right-wing press, writes Mary Harrington in UnHerd.
• “When will the EU take France’s Islamist concerns seriously?” – No European country has suffered as much as France from Islamist terror, and the Republic is reaching the end of its tether, says Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
• “Danish law that will see thousands evicted sparks fury” – Outraged residents say they will resist a “racist” Danish law which allows large numbers of people to be evicted from social housing in areas where the authorities say there are too many immigrants, reports the Mail.
• “EU ‘raping’ Hungary with migrant quotas, says Viktor Orban” – Viktor Orban has accused the European Union of “raping” Hungary and Poland with migrant quotas, says the Telegraph.
• “Meloni and Sunak are the power couple that could save Europe from oblivion” – Rishi Sunak and Giorgia Meloni have much in common in that they’ve both been vilified by Leftists for seeing the threat to Western nations from illegal migration, writes Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
• “Sunak is a bully, says Belgium’s trans Deputy Prime Minister” – Belgian’s transgender Deputy PM has called Rishi Sunak a “bully” after he said a “man is a man” during his showpiece speech at the Conservative Party conference, reports the Telegraph.
• “Just Stop Oil’s most miserable stunt yet” – Just Stop Oil’s interruption of a performance of Les Mis was a new low, writes Simon Evans in Spiked.
• “Green multi-millionaire Dale Vince abandons Just Stop Oil” – Eco-entrepreneur Dale Vince has stopped giving money to Just Stop Oil so he can give it to anti-Tory political parties instead, reports the Mail.
• “Shipping company bans EVs, due to their propensity to burst into flames” – Electric vehicles are so prone to spontaneously bursting into flames – which are virtually impossible to put out – that a Norwegian shipping company has banned them from its ferries, says Wide Awake Media.
• “Everywhere, there’s a growing revolt against Net Zero” – The headlong rush to Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050, pursued for so long by democratic governments regardless of cost, has finally hit the buffers of voter resistance, writes Andrew Neil in the Mail.
• “Question Time: Fiona Bruce refers to audience member as ‘black guy’” – Question Time has been thrown into a race row after the BBC deleted a clip of host Fiona Bruce referring to an audience member as a “black guy”, reports the Mail.
• “Hate crimes recorded by police fall for first time in 10 years” – The number of recorded hate crime offences has fallen for the first time on record after new guidance ordered police to stop recording so many “non-crime hate incidents”, say the Times.
• “Rapists wrongly labelled as ‘women’ by police” – Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show, for the first time, the scale of police adopting the self-declared gender of alleged sex attackers, reveals the Telegraph.
• “Gender dysphoria: The affirmative model for children and young people, and the role of health and social care educators” – In a paper for ScienceDirect, Dr Roger Watson and others chronicle the uncritical adoption of gender ideology in health and social care education.
• “Universities are terrified of free speech” – Being accused of a thoughtcrime at a university is sufficient to inflict anxiety and fear, silence opposition and impose obedience, warns Prof. Eric Kaufmann in the Mail.
• “Boris Johnson: How the hell is new smoking ban supposed to work?” – How would you feel if you were told that the cops couldn’t investigate a burglary at your home because they were too busy arresting smokers, asks Boris Johnson in the Mail.
• “The Tories’ smoking plans are nanny state nonsense” – Our individual choices should not be made by a scientific committee. And as politicians well know, no one can live a risk-free life, says Ella Whelan in the Telegraph.
• “A smoke-free England is an unfree England” – Rishi Sunak’s cigarette ban marks the final, depressing triumph of the nags and the killjoys, laments Tom Slater in Spiked.
• “What happened to risk-taking journalism?” – In this cautious, woke age, few would publish a Hunter S. Thompson or a Tom Wolfe, says Itxu Diaz in Spiked.
• “EU digital identity wallet pilots roll out under the radar” – The EU Digital Identity Wallets could ultimately have disastrous and lasting consequences for privacy and civil liberties, warns Stavroula Pabst for the Brownstone Institute.
• “Google throws its support behind Australia’s online ‘misinformation’ censorship” – Google’s recent support for the Australian Government’s plan to strengthen the media watchdog’s authority against online ‘misinformation’ reveals its sinister agenda, says Cindy Harper in Reclaim The Net.
• “This didn’t quite work out as Owen Jones had expected” – Paul Embery has shared a video in which a young Tory delegate skilfully bats away an attempt to embarrass him by Owen Jones.

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