- “Few have yet woken up to the full horror of Britain’s diminished situation” – The unvarnished truth, says Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph, is that lockdown costs in combination with today’s energy crisis have rendered Britain a whole lot poorer than it was.
- “Why the economy can’t get real” – Government-underwritten capitalism is turning us all into paupers, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “With hospitals cancelling routine operations due to a spike in Covid-19 infections, will an extra jab save the NHS or are too many people suffering vaccine fatigue?” – Professor Paul Hunter tells the Mail that “vaccine fatigue happens in every jab campaign, but this time around it looks more pronounced”.
- “One London court’s case backlog is double that for all of Wales” – The average length of time any victim in the capital is having to wait for his or her trial to come to court has reached 309 days, reports the Telegraph.
- “Desperate Hong Kong will give away 500,000 free flights in an attempt to attract tourists after Communist party’s draconian Covid restrictions drove visitors away” – Tourists will be offered free flights to Hong Kong in a bid to drive up visitor numbers, which have fallen by tens of millions a year since the pandemic, the Mail reports.
- “Florida Recommends Against Vaccination of 18-39 Year Old Males Due to 84% Increase in Cardiac Death Risk” – Thorsteinn Siglaugsson predicts it won’t be long until the Florida Surgeon General will be thrown off social media by the censors.
- “Dr. Peter McCullough’s last tweet” – Steve Kirsch writes that “Are the kids OK?” is the video the media definitely doesn’t want you to see or share.
- “Tokyo Mean September Temperatures Have Seen No Warming In 34 Years, JMA Data Show” – Overall, the trend for Tokyo has been dead flat since 1988, meaning there hasn’t been any warming in September, according to the data that the Japanese officials professionally collected themselves, and not the results that NASA fudges and alters, writes Pierre Gosselin in WUWT.
- “Trees are growing larger than ever before to help ease global warming” – Study reveals significant increase in the wood volume of forests that may be helping to draw extra carbon from the atmosphere, the Telegraph reports.
- “Fanaticism of the Apocalypse” – As Europeans burn garbage to stay warm, climate activists step up the war on natural gas, writes Michael Shellenberger.
- “Electric cars won’t be cheaper to run than petrol motors until 2026” – Soaring electricity prices delay the ‘tipping point’ for electric cars to become cheaper than petrol, according to the Telegraph.
- “PayPal Reverses Course, Says Company Will Not Seize Money From People for Promoting ‘Misinformation’” – PayPal on October 8th said it was not implementing a new policy that would have enabled the company to seize money from users who allegedly promote “misinformation” or “hate”, saying that it “went out in error”, reports the Epoch Times.
- “How trans activist trolls got me deplatformed by PayPal and Etsy” – Evolutionary biologist and “Reality’s Last Stand” blogger Colin Wright had his livelihood threatened after dubious hate accusations got him booted from PayPal and Etsy, where he sold merchandise, reports the New York Post.
- “Trans charity Mermaids is at last getting the scrutiny it has long deserved” – The abuse and exploitation of children rightly causes public outrage, yet for all the past scandals we remain too slow at picking up on it, writes MP Miriam Cates in the Telegraph.
- “Mermaids: is the trans house of cards finally falling?” – The damaging ideas of the trans lobby are crumbling under public scrutiny, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “NHS staff warned they must not promote transgender Mermaids charity” – A group of NHS workers have been advised to drop support for transgender children’s charity Mermaids after a string of controversies attracting criticism from activists, including J.K. Rowling, reports the Mail.
- “Ian McEwan: J.K. Rowling’s views are not worth death threats” – The Atonement author has defended fellow writer Rowling, who has faced abuse and threats for her views on the trans debate, reports the Telegraph.
- “How Turbo-Wokism broke America” – Oligarchs and activists are playing for the same team, writes David Samuels in UnHerd.
- “Abolish Arts Council and its ‘Left-wing, woke agenda’ say critics” – Leading art commentators argue the funding body’s priorities are “political, not artistic” and “hostile” to majority “taste and values”, reports the Telegraph.
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