News Round-Up
28 May 2023
by Toby Young
In this week’s London Calling, we ask what possessed Harry to include his Taliban death toll in Spare, have a go at recording an audiobook version and ask whether Andrew Tate’s downfall is an elaborate hoax.
The Handball World Cup has demanded that all players be triple vaccinated, tested daily for Covid and quarantined for five days if positive – and the players are threatening legal action.
The Icelandic Handball Association is pushing back against a new international vaccine requirement after hearing dire warnings of serious heart problems due to Covid vaccination from Dr. Aseem Malhotra.
The Icelandic Health Insurance fund has to date received 46 applications for damage payouts after COVID-19 vaccination from a population of 311,000 – a rate 150 times higher than expected for flu vaccines.
A new study in Iceland seems to show that, for most age groups, the more doses of COVID-19 vaccines you have, the more likely you are to be reinfected.
In this week's London Calling, the talking points are the difficulty of maintaining a lawn during a water shortage, the Alex Jones trial – is James worried? – and, in Culture Corner, The Offer, The Sandman and Prey.
In this week's London Calling, the talking points are recent seismic activity in Iceland, the victory of the lionesses and the ensuing festival of virtue-signalling, and the shortcomings of an all-meat diet.
In this week's London Calling, the talking points are the Tory leadership contest, the BBC's documentary about vaccine refuseniks, the death of Paul Ryder, the Nobel Peace Prize and whether the moon landings were faked.
Researchers identified every child in Iceland who caught Covid up to 31 August 2021. No child died, was hospitalised or even had severe symptoms. This puts the risk of severe symptoms for children at less than 0.06%.
Official data from Iceland show 11 children reported serious injury from the Covid vaccines versus zero serious cases of Covid, raising major question about whether the vaccines do considerably more harm than good.
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