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News Round-Up

by Richard Eldred
1 November 2023 2:00 AM

  • “Boris Johnson asked: ‘Why are we destroying the economy for people who will die anyway?’ during Covid” – Boris reportedly said “we’re killing the patient to tackle the tumour” in contemporaneous notes revealed at the Covid Inquiry, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Keeping the beaches open” – What did we learn about Boris Johnson’s Covid response from Didactic Dom, asks Robert Hutton in the Critic.
  • “We can’t lay all Covid blame at Boris’s door” – The costly Covid Inquiry is becoming a frenzied witch-hunt, unlikely to answer the most vital question: Was lockdown the right policy, writes Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
  • “‘Excess mortality’ continuing surge causes concerns” – Life insurance executives and actuaries believe excess mortality rates are alarming and could continue to drag earnings for years to come, according to InsuranceNewsNet.
  • “How U.K. Government advisers helped Pfizer win $5.95 billion U.S. Covid contract” – In TCW, Paula Jardine further explores the alleged quid pro quo between American funding for the Oxford AstraZeneca Covid vaccine and U.K. assistance in authorising the Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA vaccine.
  • “Police hold back pro-Palestinian protesters as Starmer leaves speech” – Police were forced to wrestle back demonstrators as they attempted to mob the Labour leader as he exited the Chatham House think tank in London, says the Mail.
  • “Israeli envoy wears yellow star before UN Security Council” – Israel’s Holocaust memorial body has criticised the country’s delegation to the UN for wearing yellow stars to a Security Council meeting, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Is Suella Braverman wrong about pro-Palestine ‘hate marches’?” – Take a step back, and it becomes apparent that the pro-Palestinian marches themselves are constructed on infrastructure of bigotry, writes Jake Wallis Simons in the Spectator.
  • “When did journalism become a hate crime?” – Spiked’s Fraser Myers on GB News’s Charlie Peters being reported to the police for investigating Islamic extremism.
  • “Not ‘just Hamas’” – Evidence suggests that Hamas, or at least its policy toward Jews, is popular among Palestinians, say Eugene Kontorovich and Erielle Davidson in City Journal.
  • “The normalisation of savagery” – Societies that give up on freedom will soon find it replaced by violence, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
  • “Islamism is a failed ideology. Muslims must embrace the West” – Those who came here to escape tyranny are now cheering the tyrants they left behind, says Hussain Abdul-Hussain in the Telegraph.
  • “The shameful silence of the ‘anti-racists’” – As antisemitism has surged, Britain’s ‘race equality’ charities have mostly looked the other way, writes Lauren Smith in Spiked.
  • “Moolah from mullahs” – Arab countries are bankrolling American colleges and universities, with Qatar and Saudi Arabia leading the pack, write Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky in City Journal.
  • “Miriam Cates blames increase in working women for rise in children going to school in nappies” – A Tory MP has blamed the rising number of women going out to work for an increase in infants going to school wearing nappies, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Ninety-nine percent? Re-examining the consensus on the anthropogenic contribution to climate change” – In Climate, Prof. Yonatan Dubi and others have detailed the flaws in the consensus study by Lynas et al, which (falsely) claimed the 99% consensus on the anthropogenic contribution to climate change.
  • “Greta Thunberg and her Gen Z friends owe Baby Boomers an apology over climate change” – Greta and friends say ‘older generations’ have let young people down. Yet a new poll on green lifestyle choices tells a very different story, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
  • “Indonesia shelves decarbonisation for prosperity and security” – The strategic utilisation of fossil fuels is a key factor at the centre of Indonesia’s growth, says Vijay Jayaraj in WUWT.
  • “Dictating words: The Culture-Control Left and the war against free speech” – The Institute of Economic Affairs has released a new report on the ‘Culture-Control Left’, exploring their composition, sources of inspiration and political agenda.
  • “Woke campaigners are using hate speech laws to stifle free speech” – An IEA report says elements of the Left have “successfully weaponised” concepts such as hate speech to “silence their political opponents”, reports the Mail.
  • “Council purges word ‘mother’ from pregnancy and maternity leave policy” – A council was accused of “writing out women” for purging the word ‘mother’ from its pregnancy and maternity leave policy to be more inclusive, says the Mail.
  • “Yayoi Kusama doesn’t need a race reckoning” – Who expects Yayoi Kusama, the 94 year-old grande dame of installation art, to be woke, asks Kat Rosenfield in UnHerd.
  • “Macron rejects gender-inclusive writing to ‘protect’ French language” – There’s been a long-standing debate between French Right-leaning language purists versus the Left and feminists, writes Vivian Song in the Telegraph.
  • “Academic dynamite” – Professors Alice Sullivan and Selina Todd’s new book, Sex and Gender: A Contemporary Reader, is an important, if difficult, contribution to debates around sex and gender, says Debbie Hayton in the Critic.
  • “‘Asexual rights’ and the endless quest for victimhood” – New forms of ‘oppression’ are being invented every week, writes Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
  • “The woke celebrities using their popularity to influence us” – The cult of celebrity has taken on a sinister new meaning in recent times, says Dr. Shane Fudge in TCW.
  • “Is the American Academy of Paediatrics placing its own members at risk?” – New lawsuits and a panel on gender and sexuality at the AAP’s recent conference signal trouble for paediatricians who rely on its guidance, writes Leor Sapir in City Journal.
  • “Canadian death cult” – America’s northern neighbour has euthanised tens of thousands of its citizens, says Michael Bonner in City Journal.
  • “The Vanguard interview: Peter Hitchens” – On Substack, Laura Dodsworth interviews Peter Hitchens about his new book, The War We Never Fought: The British Establishment’s Surrender to Drugs.

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