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News Round-Up

by Will Jones
1 November 2022 2:19 AM

  • “Rishi Sunak prepares sweeping tax rises for years to come” – The Mail reports that Rishi Sunak is preparing sweeping tax rises for years to come for every household in the country, as the PM and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt agree to fill ‘eye-watering’ £50 billion black hole created by the lockdowns and energy price cap.
  • “Covid inquiry demands to see Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages” – Baroness Heather Hallett will also inquire into the effectiveness of mandatory lockdowns in controlling the spread of coronavirus, according to the Telegraph. But will she swallow Ferguson’s modelling fairytales whole?
  • “Pandemic accountability” – We need accountability, not amnesty – we need to learn from our mistakes, so we don’t make them again, says Dr. Vinay Prasad as he lists 18 solutions.
  • “Xi Jinping is bringing China to the brink of collapse” – In a declaration of war against the elites, he has recklessly abandoned the guardrails that have kept the peace inside the Communist Party, argues Gordon Chang in the Telegraph.
  • “Wuhan lab reports suggest major incident just before Covid pandemic” – Toy Reid, an expert in ‘official speak’ used by Chinese bureaucrats in their missives, believes lab reports sent from Wuhan to Beijing just before Covid struck reveal an unfolding crisis at the institute, reports the Mail.
  • “Shanghai Disneyland locks down over Covid and bars guests from leaving” – All visitors in the park at the time of the announcement were ordered to stay inside until they could provide a negative test for the virus, reports the Mail.
  • “Antivaxers applaud Tory MP Christopher Chope as he questions safety of Covid vaccines” – The Times with a nasty little smear piece, showing itself still incapable of reporting fairly on concerns about vaccine safety.
  • “Long history of China’s CCP and Biowarfare” – Dr. Robert Malone publishes a guest essay by Clare M. Lopez on the unhappy history of China’s fixation with biological warfare.
  • “A Wellesley Student Speaks Out” – “The message from Wellesley could not be more clear,” writes a student from the college on Brownstone. “The education of students here is contingent on our willingness to take a medical treatment that did not exist when I enrolled here. There is no consent, only coercion.”
  • “International Conference on Pandemic/Health Management Medical and Scientific Conference” – Jessica Rose puts up her presentation from the Portugal conference this week.
  • ““This House Has Had Enough of Experts”” – Laura Dodsworth publishes a transcript of her speech in defence of the motion at the Cambridge Union debate.
  • “Another new study – yes, a second one – says the ‘Omicron-specific’ mRNA Covid boosters are worthless” – For the second time in a week, top scientists have reported that ‘Omicron specific’ Covid mRNA boosters are a $5 billion taxpayer-financed marketing gimmick, says Alex Berenson.
  • “Chickens in lockdown as ‘largest ever’ bird flu outbreak rages” – An avian flu with reported IFR of 90% has led to a requirement for all captive birds to be kept inside amid “rapid escalation” of the virus, the Telegraph reports.
  • “Covid review? No, just a shameful cop-out” – Paul Collits in TCW Defending Freedom writes that the Australian Covid review is “of, by and for the ruling class” and so “with the hard questions kept off the table the evil works perpetrated in the name of Covid safety in Australia go unpunished”.
  • “The Book We Need and Only Justin Hart Could Write” – Jeffrey Tucker in Brownstone praises Justin Hart’s new pandemic book Gone Viral, saying he is one of the “few intellectuals who was correct about the whole hullabaloo from the very beginning”.
  • “Students suffering ‘grief’ over climate change offered support sessions” – The University of East Anglia says living close to the eroding Norfolk coast can be hard, as it employs “mindfulness techniques for resilience”, the Telegraph reports.
  • “Nature Geoscience: ‘Eastern Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet Has Grown Over Last 20 Years’” – CO2-warming is not what is driving the ice activity on the eastern Antarctic Peninsula, notes Pierre Gosselin in WUWT.
  • “Just Stop Oil hits four targets on final day of month of mayhem” – A passerby defied calls to not “directly intervene” with Just Stop Oil eco-zealots as a man tackled a paint-wielding protester and sprayed him orange this morning, the Mail reports.
  • “Ukraine war: Cost-of-living crisis could erode public support for sanctions against Russia” – An exclusive poll for Sky News found that 32% would oppose sanctions if they caused energy bills to rise further.
  • “‘Chief Twit’ Elon Musk becomes the sole director of Twitter” – Elon Musk has dissolved Twitter’s board of directors, making him the sole director of the company, as he plans to “fire a quarter of the workforce”, according to the Mail.
  • “Does Elon Musk have the stomach for this fight?” – He could be the madman who makes the internet less mad, suggests Gareth Roberts in the Spectator. But is he prepared for the scale of the pushback?
  • “A Law School Lacked and Lost” – For years, the University of San Diego’s law school set the standard for intellectual excellence and diversity, but time and wokery have not been kind, says James Allan in Law & Liberty.
  • “NHS diversity drive cost taxpayers almost three-quarters-of-a-million-pounds in October alone” – 16 roles advertised at Trusts, all of which have a focus on equality, inclusion and well-being, have a total combined salary of £713, 328, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Children as young as nine prescribed puberty blockers at Sturgeon-backed gender clinic” – The Telegraph reports that Sandyford is accused of setting young patients off on “a medical pathway”, after an NHS report into referrals for drug treatment.
  • “America’s parents are revolting” – “They are fed up with schools indoctrinating their children,” says Joanna Williams in Spiked, “and now they’re fighting back.”
  • “Roger Scruton Memorial Lectures 2022 – Nigel Biggar, Ali Ansari and Douglas Murray” – Watch the lecture on “Deconstructing Decolonisation” by Professor Nigel Biggar, held at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford on October 26th 2022.

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