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News Round-Up

by Richard Eldred
1 September 2023 12:14 AM

  • “Boots ‘runs out of Covid tests’ amid fears Pirola will ‘overwhelm NHS’” – The incessant drumbeat about the ‘new variant’ is causing the public fo panic, reports the Mail.
  • “The mRNA Covid jabs damage immune responses to other viruses in children, a new study finds” – According to Australian researchers, kids who got Pfizer’s Covid jabs have a weakened immune response to other viruses and bacteria, says Alex Berenson on Substack.
  • “A 10-point primer on why the mRNA Covid shots are different from and riskier than other vaccines” – Alex Berenson provides a handy crib sheet on his Substack, listing 10 crucial facts about the mRNA Covid shots and explaining why we should all be wary of the latest wave of Covid jabs.
  • “The Royal Society’s lockdown report is deeply flawed” – The world’s oldest scientific academy, the U.K.’s Royal Society, has ignored uncomfortable truths about our pandemic response in its lockdown report, writes Kevin Bardosh in UnHerd.
  • “Why anyone who supported Covid fascism has no right to complain about inflation and housing crisis” – Everything you hate about the economy is a direct or indirect effect of our Covid policies, argues Daniel Horowitz in Blaze Media.
  • “Deaths on the NHS waiting list double in five years as critics slam ‘decade of underinvestment’ in health service” – New figures suggest that the number of NHS patients dying while waiting for treatment has doubled in five years, says LBC. But, surely, it’s due to the lockdown policy, not ‘underinvestment’?
  • “GP average salaries rise by a quarter in a decade” – According to new NHS figures, GPs’ average earnings have risen 23% in a decade to reach £118,100, reports the Times.
  • “If healthcare ‘privatisation’ killed people, most of Europe would be dead” – Compared to our continental counterparts, the NHS is one of the least privatised healthcare systems in the world, writes Kristian Niemietz in CapX.
  • “One in four new Ulez cameras has already been vandalised” – Data suggests that Ulez vandals have hit at least a quarter of all new cameras in the expansion zone, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Sir Iain Duncan Smith backs ‘Blade Runner’ Ulez vandals” – Tory MP Sir Iain Duncan Smith has said he backs the ‘Blade Runners’ who are vandalising Ulez cameras, according to the Mail.
  • “Planet Normal: Ulez expansion feels like lockdown all over again” – On the Telegraph’s latest Planet Normal podcast, columnists Liam Halligan and Allison Pearson discuss the controversial expansion of Ulez to the Greater London area.
  • “Clean Air Zone pollution cut ‘smaller than thought’” – Birmingham’s Clean Air Zone has had a smaller effect on pollution than was previously thought, reports the BBC.
  • “France calls for an end to cheap flights in Europe” – France wants to scrap €10 airfares, and establish minimum ticket prices within the EU as part of a strategy to reduce air travel and curb emissions, reports the Telegraph.
  • “How the Left turned the RSPB from pro-conservation to anti-Conservative” – Like the National Trust and the RSPCA before them, the RSPB has stuck its beak into politics to try to bring down the Tory Government, writes Simon Heffer in the Telegraph.
  • “Is Net Zero a youth tax?” – Net Zero rhetoric legitimises generational inequality by making needless austerity seem like a choice, argues M.W. Pedersen in CapX.
  • “Fury as students are dumped from luxury flats with gym and a cinema to make way for up to 405 asylum seekers” – Students have been booted out of a luxury housing block after the Home Office agreed a deal to rent the rooms for migrants, reports the Mail.
  • “Simpering Sunak is too weak to stand up to Biden’s woke agenda” – Rishi Sunak’s upcoming flagship AI summit will not include the U.S. President, who has decided to send his distinctly unimpressive deputy in his place, writes Nile Gardiner in the Telegraph.
  • “George Osborne’s midlife crisis” – After decades of espousing unpopular causes, George Osborne is suddenly attempting to ingratiate himself with the metropolitan elite by being ‘progressive’, writes Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
  • “The truth about the backlash to France’s abaya school ban” – Religion is the main reason the abaya has taken off in France, writes Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator. Its popularity spread on TikTok as part of a campaign aimed at challenging the Republic’s secularism.
  • “Claiming that football kiss was sexual assault is an insult to victims” – The Mail’s Jenni Murray reflects on the kiss Luis Rubiales gave to Jenny Hermoso following Spain’s World Cup win and concludes it’s a storm in a tea cup.
  • “De-banked vicar says people are becoming less afraid to air views on trans issues” – The Rev. Richard Fothergill says there has been a “sea change” in people feeling able to speak out about gender, according to the Telegraph.
  • “The British police are institutionally woke” – The Met Police Chief’s pledge to remove identity politics from policing rings hollow, says Thomas Osborne in Spiked.
  • “Trans activist who told crowd to ‘punch a TERF’ cleared” – A trans activist who told a crowd to ‘punch a TERF’ has been found not guilty of intentionally encouraging people to break the law, according to the Mail.
  • “‘Trans’ paedophiles are laughing at Britain” – Claiming to have changed sex does not make men any less likely to commit sex offences, writes Julie Bindel in the Telegraph.
  • “The sinister online mobbing of Róisín Murphy” – Róisín Murphy, the great Irish songstress, has been bullied by a misogynistic mob, says Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
  • “‘I swam with trans athlete Lia Thomas – the woke Left don’t care about women’s rights’” – “Women-only spaces are vital for sexual assault survivors like me,” says Paula Scanlan in the Telegraph. “So why have progressives stayed silent?”
  • “The painful demise of late-night comedy” – Strike Force Five reminds us just how unfunny and out of touch Stephen Colbert and company have become, writes Jenny Holland in Spiked.
  • “Elon Musk calls his transgender daughter Vivian a ‘communist’” – Elon Musk has spoken out about his strained relationship with his transgender daughter, calling her a “communist” and blaming the expensive private high school she attended, reports the Mail.
  • “Konstantin Kisin: ‘Communism is the most dangerous and destructive ideology that has ever been inflicted on the human race’” – Konstantin Kisin takes to Twitter (X) to explain why communism is worse than fascism.

Communism is the most dangerous and destructive ideology that has ever been inflicted on the human race at scale. Yes, worse even than fascism. pic.twitter.com/0UDtSa7olu

— Konstantin Kisin (@KonstantinKisin) August 30, 2023

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