News Round-Up

“Us For Them’s urgent call to action on Covid jabs for children” – The campaign group says people should email their MPs ahead of Tuesday’s Parliamentary debate on childhood vaccinations in TCW Defending Freedom.
“GPs who won’t see patients are hurting the NHS” – “I used to love the NHS but, increasingly, I feel my relationship with it is on the rocks,” writes Dr. Max Pemberton in the Mail.
“Top scientists say they won’t take third jab until poorer countries have vaccines” – Many researchers, doctors and nurses say they are uncomfortable having a further jab, when others around the world need it more, reports the Telegraph.
“Innova’s iniquity, Part 2: Protected by the U.K. regulator” – “The Government and its agencies have failed to be transparent by not providing the data/evidence to support the argument for the exorbitant cost of the DHSC/NHS Test and Trace scheme,” writes Sonia Elijah in TCW Defending Freedom.
“Is this still about the virus – was it ever? The Week in Review” – Michael Curzon and S.D. Wickett discuss the winter lockdown plan, child vaccination and vaccine passports at home and abroad in the latest Bournbrook Magazine podcast.
“Just how accurate is the John Snow memo?” – Dr. Scott McLachlan writes that “there’s a group of people, many of whom are severely underqualified to be making these pronouncements, who have been pushing the lockdown, long Covid and vax narrative with fearmongering in the mainstream media”.
“Covid Early Treatment” – Based on promising peer-reviewed pre-clinical and early clinical results, Swiss Policy Research has added artemisia annua and arginine to its Covid early treatment protocol.
“Scottish Covid vaccine trialists ‘treated like second-class citizens’” – Novavax volunteers fear that the start of vaccine passports next month could put them at a further disadvantage, reports the Guardian.
“The Dutch Ditch Social Distancing” – Protestors mocked social-distancing rules in the Netherlands this weekend by dancing and partying like free people.
“The Police Association ditches presumption of innocence. Allegedly…” – Does the Victorian Police Association no longer believe in the presumption of innocence? It certainly doesn’t look like it does.
“How the U.S. vaccination drive came to rely on an army of consultants” – Private contractors cost taxpayers millions while demonstrating few clear results and papering over weaknesses in the country’s public health system, reports the Washington Post.
“Mounting fears of a 1970s-style three-day week as Britain’s energy crunch deepens” – Rocketing power prices and a gas storage crisis threaten the recovery and leave the U.K. at the mercy of Russia’s Vladimir Putin, reports the Sunday Telegraph.
“Environmental hubris has left Britain vulnerable to Putin’s gas blackmail” – Of course Russia will take advantage of Britain’s shocking failure to safeguard its energy security, writes Simon Heffer in the Sunday Telegraph.
“Our eco-obsessed Government is sleepwalking into an energy crisis” – We could be facing a hard winter of higher energy bills and even blackouts, writes Rob Lyons in Spiked.
“Kwarteng to hold emergency meeting with gas chiefs over price crisis” – The Business Secretary says he will let small suppliers go bust to protect consumers from higher prices, reports the Guardian.
“Is this the end of white America?” – The far-Right is obsessed with the Great Replacement, writes Eric Kaufmann in UnHerd.
“Lib Dem Ed Davey defends party’s trans rights stance amid activist row” – Ed Davey insists the Liberal Democrats believe in free speech, despite the party’s decision to bar a member from running for Parliament over her views on transgender women.
“Black Lives Matter training among new diversity courses offered to NHS staff” – The courses cover white privilege, unconscious bias, authentic allyship and the intersectionality between race and gender, reports the Telegraph.
“‘The costs, in retrospect, seem far greater than any benefit’” – Toby talks to Mark Dolan on GB News about why he became a lockdown sceptic early on in the pandemic.

'The costs, in retrospect, seem far greater than any benefit'

Toby Young explains why he became a lockdown sceptic early on in the pandemic. pic.twitter.com/Ht6o2iFlQn
— GB News (@GBNEWS) September 19, 2021

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