News Round-Up

“No need for more Covid lockdowns, says NHS Providers Chief” – Chris Hopson says pandemic will soon be considered ‘endemic’, but warns that hospital bed occupancy is already at peak winter levels, reports the Telegraph.
“The damage of masking children could be irreparable” – “The science implies that if we mess up brain development for faces, we may not currently have therapies to undo everything we’ve done,” writes Eric Hussey, who investigates the potential neurological damage of masking children for the Brownstone Institute.
“Suffolk at centre of multi million alleged cover-up of Government PPE scandal” – “Suffolk is at the centre of a huge alleged Government cover-up of the Covid PPE scandal. As well as wasting billions of pounds on buying unwanted or unusable material, it has cost the taxpayers of this country £1 million a day in storage,” reports East Anglia Bylines.
“Antivirals will deal the final blow to Covid” – Covid is fast becoming a treatable, uninteresting, even run-of-the-mill, virus, and new drugs offer the ultimate route back to normality, argues Matthew Lesh in the Telegraph.
“Molnupiravir: mutagenic, carcinogenic, authorized in the U.K.” – “The re-analysis of the data in Merck’s press release from October 3rd, suggests that the announced results show much lower efficacy than claimed, even without questioning the conduct of the trial and reporting,” writes Leo G. in Trialsite.
“There is good news – the battle is not lost” – Resistance to vaccine mandates and other Covid restrictions across America is relatively strong, meaning that the fight against tyranny is not over yet, writes Kathy Gyngell in TCW.
“Thousands across Italy want Covid Green Pass scrapped (Videos)” – “Thousands-strong protests against Covid immunity passes took place in several Italian cities. In Trieste, the demonstration was marred by minor clashes between some protesters and riot police,” reports RT.
“Ted Cruz condemns Big Bird for advocating Covid vaccines for kids” – The Texas senator Ted Cruz and other U.S. Conservatives have condemned the Sesame Street character Big Bird for being used as a prop to encourage the vaccination of children, reports the Guardian.
“Archbishop Viganò warns U.S. bishops about Covid jab: the Great Reset wants ‘billions of chronically ill people’” – “The silence of so many cardinals and bishops, along with the inconceivable promotion of the vaccination campaign by the Holy See, represents a form of unprecedented complicity that cannot continue any longer,” writes Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò in an open letter to all U.S. bishops, published in Lifesite.
“Emilio Estevez exits The Mighty Ducks due to Disney vaccine mandate” – “The 59 year-old actor, who first starred in the franchise as coach Gordon Bombay in the 1992 hockey flick, left the Disney+ series because of disagreements over the show’s vaccine requirements,” reports the Mail.
“All children will have to take Covid jab in Costa Rica” – “Costa Rica has become the first nation in the world to make Covid vaccination mandatory for children. Parents face sanctions, and potentially forced jabbing of their kids, if they don’t comply,” reports RT.
“The religious experience of Covid and the limitless power of the state” – “In my view there are actually a variety of religious issues that lie beneath this bewildering passivity. What has taken place are merely fruits of a revolutionised worldview in the West,” argues Reverend Dr. Joe Boot in Christian Concern.
“Will you stand with me?” – “It was never ‘just a mask’. We are now on the brink of a full-blown medical apartheid,” says Lucy Davies, who asks why those who claim to stand up to oppression support repressive vaccine passports schemes in OffGuardian.
“COP26 climate change adviser tests positive for Covid” – “The U.K.’s former chief negotiator on climate change has become the latest delegate to test positive for Covid while attending the COP26 conference in Glasgow,” reports the Times.
“Under 50% are willing to pay thousands to make homes greener” – U.K. remains deeply divided on how domestic green agenda should be funded, polling and focus group research reveals, reports the Telegraph.
“If Greta and her pals really want to get results, they should try protesting in Tiananmen Square” – “This is why they’re not protesting in countries where protest might do some good; because they’re timid and wet. Greta turns up in Glasgow so she can bathe in some adulation for a few days, rather than getting sent to a labour camp for a few decades,” writes Jeremy Clarkson in the Times.
“Hypocritical eco-zealots should concentrate on solutions, not moral point-scoring” – From the Greta Thunbergs of the world to Extinction Rebellion, all modern ‘activists’ want to do is virtue-signal and berate humanity, argues Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
“Censorship is class war by other means” – Christopher Hilliard’s A Matter of Obscenity exposes the paternalism driving censorship of the arts, argues Alexander Adams in Spiked.
“Embracing wokeness is electoral kryptonite for Biden’s Democrats” – Glenn Youngkin’s winning campaign in Virginia partly focused on the hugely galvanising issue of Critical Race Theory, writes Douglas Murray in the Telegraph.
“University making ‘cancel’ threat to 19th century scientist over his race theories has multiple ties to Chinese military specialists” – “Imperial College London has established multiple ties to Chinese military specialists as well as forging relationships with Qatar and Saudi Arabia,” reports the Mail on Sunday.
“Winsome Sears and the rise of woke racism” – Sears has been denounced as the ‘black mouth’ of white supremacy. This is vile and dehumanising rhetoric, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
“Teenage boys among soaring non-Covid excess deaths” – Lucy Johnston declares that there needs to be an “urgent inquiry to explain why there are tens of thousands more non-Covid deaths at home compared to five year average”.

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