News Round-Up

• “U.K.’s ‘runaway’ health spending costs £10k per household – but produces some of the worst results” – U.K. health spending is costing around £10,000 per household, with the third highest share of GDP in Europe, a major report has found, yet Britain comes second worst for life expectancy, reports the Telegraph.
• “Aggressive Measures, Rising Inequalities and Mass Formation During the COVID-19 Crisis: An Overview and Proposed Way Forward” – John P. A. Ioannidis, Michaéla Schippers and Ari Joffe with an article in SSRN which concludes that in light of evidence regarding the health, economic and social costs, that likely far outweigh potential benefits, aggressive lockdown policies should be reversed and their re-adoption in the future should be avoided.
• “Articles of Inquiry: The Role of Media” – Scott Morefield, Jordan Schachtel and Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone review the main issues with the role of the media during the pandemic that require investigation and suggest an agenda for more extensive investigation.
• “If nurses strike, I think they will find that the public have had enough of them!” – Roger Watson in Unity News Network says he has no doubt a modest pay rise is deserved by nurses but even if they were asking for a modest one, this is not the time.
• “The tipping point on vaccines and Covid policy approaches” – El Gato Malo sees more evidence that the tune is changing.
• “Will physicians ever speak out?” – Steve Kirsch is suspicious after three doctors die in a week at Trillium Health in Ontario, Canada, shortly after the rollout of the fourth dose to staff.
• “Children’s National Hospital Small Children’s Study: Second Dose of mRNA Vaccine OK Even if First Dose Led to Adverse Event” – Trial Site News reports on a study that purports to find it is safe to expose a child to a second vaccine dose even if he or she experienced an adverse reaction to the first dose.
• “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Fauci’s Admission: Mainstream Media Makes No ‘Effort to Hold Him Accountable’” – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said it’s “astonishing” that mainstream media is not holding Dr. Anthony Fauci accountable for his remarks on Wednesday that COVID-19 vaccines don’t protect “overly well” against Covid, reports the Epoch Times.
• “Birx Says COVID-19 Vaccines Were Never ‘Going to Protect Against Infection’” – One of the former U.S. officials who led the COVID-19 response during the Trump administration contradicted her earlier pronouncements, saying that COVID-19 vaccines were not expected to protect against infection, reports the Epoch Times.
• “Wrong, Legacy Media, Climate Change Is Not Causing Summer Heatwaves in the U.S. and Europe” – The mainstream media has uniformly blamed the heatwaves on human caused climate change, but this attribution is wrong, says Anthony Watts in ClimateRealism.
• “Threat to close Port Talbot steelworks is eco-blackmail” – Ministers should call Tata Steel’s bluff and refuse to fund decarbonisation, says Ben Marlow in the Telegraph.
• “Germany could U-turn on plan to scrap nuclear power as energy costs soar” – Reduced gas deliveries mean Germany is bracing for a tough winter, with politicians decrying energy policies under former chancellors, reports the Telegraph.
• “The audacious PR plot that seeded doubt about climate change” – The BBC claims that 30 years ago, a “bold plan was hatched to persuade people that climate change was not a problem”.
• “Race trigger warnings placed on pioneer Enlightenment philosophers” – The Telegraph reports that Nottingham Trent University documents brand great thinkers as “supposed Enlightenment” scholars, susceptible to “scientific racism”.
• “Edinburgh University is learning the hard way that there’s a price to pay for going woke” – Weak, pusillanimous and ignorant officials thought it would be easy to spit on the memory of David Hume, but they were wrong, says Douglas Murray in the Telegraph.
• “Make Kemi Badenoch Education Secretary and allow her to ‘fight the culture wars’, say allies” – Kemi Badenoch is being tipped by allies to become Education or Culture Secretary, allowing her to fight the culture wars from a key role in Government, the Telegraph reports.
• “HSBC has answered the call of the Chinese Communist Party” – The bank almost certainly had no choice about its party cell, but it does have a choice about how it describes its relationship with its new minder, writes Ian Williams in the Spectator.
• “Women are just collateral damage to the trans lobby” – How has a trans inmate been allowed to impregnate two female prisoners, asks Raquel Rosario Sanchez in Spiked.
• “Environmentalists who warn about the end of humanity always come up with ‘solutions’ that sound designed to do exactly this – stop having children, stop using energy and now … stop making food” – Fraser Myers wonders on Twitter about some of the solutions from the alarmists.

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