- “Is Covid about to bounce back? England’s outbreak flattens off after dipping to lowest level in a year” – The Mail reports that the ONS infection survey shows an epidemic flattening off but which may be about to rebound as autumn sets in.
- “COVID-19 and the unseen pandemic of child abuse” – An editorial in the BMJ by Wesley J. Park and Kristen A. Walsh describing their major new study on the impact of lockdowns on children: “For children, the collateral damage of the COVID-19 pandemic response has been considerable: ‘nearly insurmountable’ educational losses, deteriorating mental health, low routine childhood vaccination rates, 39 billion missed school meals by January 2021 and millions of estimated life-years lost among students in the USA alone.”
- “British Medical Journal faces backlash from leading scientists” – The Mail reports that the BMJ has faced criticism over a potential over-reliance on members of Independent SAGE, a “Left-wing” group of experts who have lobbied for lockdowns and mask mandates.
- “The head of the CDC’s outside committee on vaccine safety does not want to see the safety data collected by the Israeli Ministry of Health” – Steve Kirsch says he finally got a response to his question to ACIP Chair Grace Lee about whether she wants to see the Covid vaccine safety data from Israel – she called the cops on him. He has also learned the Israeli Ministry of Health were told the vaccines were unsafe in March 2022, but said it was simply a manpower and budget issue that they weren’t able to inform the public.
- “Another Ill Effect of Covid injections – Transplant Rejection” – The Exposé reports on a Japanese study looking at the phenomenon of acute corneal graft rejection after Covid vaccination.
- “Jonathan Engler on Anomalies in the Excess Death Statistics from Northern Italy in Spring 2020” – Eugyppius looks at Dr. Jonathan Engler’s analysis of the first wave and what it might tell us about the virus.
- “Narendra Modi’s admonishment for Vladimir Putin: ‘I told you this was not an era for war’” – “I have spoken to you on the phone about this,” says the Indian leader as he scolds the Russian president over his invasion of Ukraine, according to the Telegraph.
- “Renewables will not solve the energy crisis” – Wind and solar are far too unreliable to meet Britain’s energy needs, says James Woudhuysen in the Telegraph.
- “Making Batteries for All These EVs Will Require Over 300 New Mines” – Satisfying global demand for lithium, cobalt, nickel and graphite will take hundreds of new mines by 2035, writes José Rodríguez Jr. in Jalopnik.
- “Zac Goldsmith shouldn’t have been demoted. He should have been sacked outright” – Ross Clark in the Telegraph says rewilding represents the Tory party at its worst – when it is being “a self-help group for the wealthy at the expense of everyone else”.
- “The inconvenient truth about France’s forest fires” – Politicians are desperate to blame climate change but the fact is most were man-made.
- “Are they taking us for a ride?” – Andy Lambeth on the New Subnormal wonders if the energy crisis is really all Putin’s fault.
- “The moment that showed the madness of gender ideology” – Debbie Hayton in the Spectator says that Michael Gibbon KC, counsel for the charity Mermaids, told the court that “lesbians can include someone who is a woman as a result of gender reassignment”.
- “Children as young as nine can be prescribed sex change hormones” – Minimum ages for puberty blockers and surgical interventions for young people who think they are transgender have been removed by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), the Telegraph reports.
- “Christian group blocked from holding conference at Cambridge college” – Christian Concern accuses Fitzwilliam College of rejecting its booking on the grounds that it does not believe in gay marriage, reports the Telegraph.
- “Martha’s Vineyard and the fraud of the rich white liberal” – Paul Du Quenoy in Spectator World says the pro-illegal immigration elite are suddenly finding all kinds of spurious reasons to object to the transporting of such newcomers to Martha’s Vineyard, despite the community previously announcing itself to be a “sanctuary destination”.
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