News Round-Up

• “NHS creates £1.3bn pot for Covid compensation claims” – The Telegraph reports that the Government has settled on blaming lack of access to healthcare for the excess deaths and has set aside over a billion pounds for expected compensation.
• “In defence of evidence-based policy making” – Dr. Clare Craig’s BMJ ‘rapid response’ on behalf of HART to the journal’s vicious smear piece against dissenting doctors.
• “How Xi’s Zero-Covid mismanagement left China’s economy on the brink” – Unrest in Shanghai has rapidly grown into the worst protests against Beijing in decades, says Szu Ping Chan in the Telegraph.
• “New York Times Decides Lockdowns are Actually Draconian and Economically Destructive when China Does Them” – Eugyppius remarks on a severe case of doublethink at the NYT.
• “Halt Vaccination of Young People Until Vaccine-Linked Myocarditis Is Studied: MIT Professor” – Retsef Levi argues that there are enough data on the Covid vaccine’s adverse heart effects to stop its use and run a thorough investigation into why many once-healthy young people suffer or die from heart inflammation after being vaccinated, reports the Epoch Times.
• “Cancer specialist says Covid boosters are harming his patients” – Kathy Gyngell in TCW looks at the significance of Professor Angus Dalgleish’s recent intervention calling for the safety of Covid vaccines to be urgently reviewed.
• “What is Causing the Blood Clots from ‘Died Suddenly?’” – The ‘Midwestern Doctor’ says the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is “remarkably effective at disrupting many critical physiologic processes both in the short term and in the long term”.
• “China’s Covid crisis demands terrible choices. The world will suffer if this goes wrong” – Devi Sridhar in the Guardian predicts disaster (again) if China abandons Zero Covid.
• “Britain isn’t ready for onshore wind” – Onshore wind is an odd focus for a rebellion, says Ross Clark in the Spectator: it was extremely unpopular last time around, and “promises to be even less popular this time, given that the size of wind turbines has increased massively since the moratorium was imposed seven years ago.
• “China claims BBC journalist beaten up and arrested ‘for his own good’” – Shocking video from the anti-Government protests in Shanghai show Edward Lawrence, a camera operator for the BBC’s China Bureau, being dragged away by Xi’s officers, reports the Mail.
• “Millions of rural households will be forced to spend £13k on heat pumps” – ‘Net zero’ rules will mean traditional oil heating systems will be banned from 2026, reports the Telegraph.
• “Netherlands to close up to 3,000 farms to comply with EU rules” – The Government tries to cut down on nitrogen pollution in a move set to reignite tensions with farmers who say the industry is unfairly targeted, the Telegraph reports.
• “National Grid will not activate its emergency winter plan for the first time tomorrow after warning households may be offered up to £20 to cut electricity at peak times because of energy supply fears” – The utility company had earlier indicate it might, according to the Mail.
• “Surrey crime tsar says trans cops shouldn’t strip search females” – Lisa Townsend, the Tory crime tsar for Surrey since 2021, blasted national policing guidelines for allowing transgender women within the force to “insist on strip-searching” a female suspect, the Mail reports.
• “‘Gender affirmation is demonstrably dangerous for young people’: Woman who has detransitioned calls for a ban on medical intervention for minors claiming doctors are treating teens too early and not dealing with root problems” – Cat Cattinson grew up as female but identified as male from the age of 13, according to a report in the Mail. She took testosterone, went by the name of Tony, and made plans for breast-removal surgery, but now has detransitioned and is speaking out about the dangers.
• “The Wellcome Collection’s war on itself” – Kit Wilson in the Spectator says the Wellcome Collection has become so woke it has decided that no amount of self-abasement can make up for the very existence of its Medicine Man exhibition, so it has closed it in a fit of ethical self-destruction.
• “Museums are vandalising themselves” – Joanna Williams notes in Spiked that the Wellcome Collection’s curators “are happy to take their founder’s money but contemptuous of his legacy; they are not preservers of the past, but cultural vandals intent on destroying humanity’s shared history”.
• “Where’s the moral outrage at England’s cricket tour of Pakistan?” – Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator wonders if the world has forgotten that Pakistan is scarcely less keen on all things LGBT than Qatar.
• “Musk threatens ‘war’ with Apple over claims it is censoring free speech” – The Twitter owner tweets: “Apple has threatened to withhold Twitter from its App Store, but won’t tell us why”, according to the Telegraph.
• “The Labour Party and gender-critical women” – Kim Thomas in the Critic with a “modern history of mistreatment”.
• “The U.K. plots to ban private messaging” – Reclaim the Net on another major threat to civil liberties in the U.K.
• “There should be a referendum on it because we can’t express our views at the ballot box” – Toby tells GB News’s Michelle Dewberry he is in favour of a referendum on the Government’s Net Zero policy.

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