- “Revealed: Schoolchildren hardest hit by Covid lockdowns” – The Telegraph reports on new figures which show more than three quarters of pupils believe their academic progress suffered because of lockdowns.
- “Lost for ever: Up to £5 Billion in Covid pay-outs handed out in error through furlough scheme and self-employed grants may never be recovered, watchdog warns” – A report estimates that £1.5 billion of furlough payments went to companies who said they would not have made redundancies without Government support, reports the Mail.
- “Health firm boss, 51, who claimed her company made £130,000 in a year (when it was really £5,000) to secure £30,000 Covid ‘Bounce Back’ loan which she then spent on herself is banned from running businesses” – Former business director Monica Coyle from Kilmarnock claimed a BBL from the Government in May 2020 but kept the money for herself, the Mail reports.
- “In defence of my friend Dr. Joseph Ladapo” – Steve Kirsch responds to the L.A. Times‘s attempt to take down the Florida vaccine heart deaths study.
- “Happy Endings are not Written in the Language of Coercive Control.” – Laura Dodsworth publishes an extract from her book A State of Fear.
- “Masks For Thee But Not For Me” – Eugyppius spots the Federal President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, violating the Infection Protection Act, which requires masks in all local and long-distance trains.
- “Covid: Woman accused of Sheffield lockdown rave has case thrown out” – Allegations of a lockdown party in Sheffield are dropped due to a “defective charge”, reports BBC News.
- “New York City’s Hospitals Were Not Overwhelmed in Spring 2020” – No one denies that thousands of New Yorkers died needlessly in March-May 2020, but now we know it wasn’t because the city’s hospitals were overrun, writes Jessica Hockett at Brownstone.
- “Emmanuel Macron moves to crush the protesters (again)” – Oil workers have vowed to continue their strikes, reports Peter Franklin in UnHerd.
- “British House of Lords: ‘Covid was a crisis, the climate is a crisis. We can learn some very important messages around the communications’” – “Given pretty much everyone except China nowadays treats Covid like the flu,” writes Eric Worrall in WUWT, “I strongly suspect the lesson people are learning from the Covid panic is not the lesson Baroness Kate Parminter wants people to learn.”
- “Joining Battle Over The ‘Science’ Of Global Warming” – In the real world, the ‘science’ behind the claim that human carbon emissions are heading us toward some kind of planetary catastrophe is not only not ‘settled’, but actually non-existent, argues Francis Menton in WUWT.
- “Just Stop Oil mob cause furious bust-up as motorists confront each other over how to get past zealots blocking busy London road during morning rush hour on their 13th consecutive day of protests” – The demonstrators from Just Stop Oil established a series of roadblocks from 9am on Thursday on routes around St. George’s Circus in Southwark, reports the Mail.
- “Just Stop Oil block London roads as police finally take swift action” – The Met, who have been criticised for their approach to protests, said “rapid intervention” saw all 20 arrested and roads reopened, according to the Telegraph.
- “The Biden Admin reveals its new National Security Strategy: climate change, diversity, equity, and inclusion” – The inmates have taken over the ideological asylum, says Jordan Schachtel in the Dossier.
- “Comedian Harry Enfield ‘no-platformed’ for ‘black face’ in Nelson Mandela show” – A number of ‘controversial’ speakers have been rejected by university societies amid fears of backlash, according to a study reported in the Telegraph.
- “The Times view on free speech in universities: Tacit Censorship” – The rise of ‘quiet’ no-platforming on campus is corrosive to education, the Times argues in a leading article.
- “The Koh-i-Noor belongs in Britain, not India” – Zareer Masani in the Telegraph makes the case for keeping the long-contested jewel in the place it is most likely to be enjoyed by most people.
- “Suella Braverman is right about Indian migrants” – Britain’s immigration system should not be a pawn in trade negotiations, says Rakib Ehsan in UnHerd.
- “Turn to page two for kink and sex toys” – Schools are using teaching material provided by opaque consultancies pushing fringe and disturbing views on sex and race, writes Jo-Anne Nadler in the Critic.
- “Why the trans lobby loves censorship” – Twitter’s suspension of Maya Forstater is yet more proof that gender ideologues cannot abide any scrutiny, says Joanna Williams in Spiked.
- “White House ‘Desperate… Panicking’” – Watch Michael Shellenberger explain why U.S. foreign and energy policies are in collapse.
- “Should failing students really graduate as doctors?” – Lionel Shriver writes in the Spectator that New York University “didn’t cover itself in glory when, just before this semester began, it responded to a petition from 82 students (out of a class of 350) by sacking the professor. The petitioners’ main objection? The course was too hard.”
- “Is what Conor Burns did really so appalling?” – Douglas Murray in the Spectator questions the new #MeToo ‘wisdom’ that rebrands flirting as harassment.
- “If you use Wikipedia, you’ve seen pop-ups like this. If you’re like me, you may have donated as a result” – Echetus says he has now learnt the money isn’t going where he thought.
- “PayPal is acting like a feudal overlord” – Governments have shown that they can close private accounts at the drop of a hat, warns Josie Appleton in Notes on Freedom.
- “Earlier today I learned that @kanyewest was officially kicked out of JP Morgan Chase bank. I was told there was no official reason given, but they sent this letter as well to confirm that he has until late November to find another place for the Yeezy empire to bank” – Candace Owens reports on the latest incident of financial unpersoning.
- “The Genius Behind PayPal’s Bad Idea” – “What if we treat our users like they’re criminals?” – J.P. gets into the twisted minds behind PayPal’s antics.
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