News Round-Up

• “Why are media outlets reporting the Covid epidemic is escalating?” – In recent days, CNN and Sky News have claimed the epidemic is growing, despite falling daily case numbers, reports Full Fact.
• “Dementia assessments by GPs have plunged by a third since start of pandemic” – Experts say figures are “shocking” and show the most vulnerable have been left to live “in uncertainty and fear,” reports the Telegraph.
• “You can be as wrong as you like when you’re a Covid pessimist” – With the same people now lobbying to ruin the winter, we should keep their track record in mind, writes Christopher Snowden, who mentions that the countless hysterical Covid models should not be followed as they have always been proven wrong in the Telegraph.
• “Catholic school teens die after vaccine drive” – “A Catholic school in the archdiocese of Birmingham is refusing to reveal if the deaths of two of its pupils is related to the Covid jab administered in a mass-vaccination drive targeted at teenagers,” reports Jules Gomes in Church Militant.
• “Edinburgh nightclub scraps Covid vaccine passports amid huge decline in footfall” – Popular Lulu’s on George Street confirmed that from this weekend, they will no longer require customers to show official proof of both Covid vaccinations, reports Edinburgh Live.
• “Grant Shapps stops public transport Covid adverts amid fears they will alarm passengers” – Transport Secretary accused of partially derailing campaign to raise public awareness of the benefits of ventilating homes, reports the Telegraph.
• “Pfizer wins race for Covid profits, but at what cost?” – The success of its vaccine as well as the creation of paxlovid, a new anti-viral pill, has dramatically boosted the company’s market share in Europe and the U.S., but Pfizer has neglected poorer nations due to its profit focus, writes Alex Ralph and Louisa Clarence-Smith in the Times.
• “Federal court temporarily blocks Biden’s vaccine mandate for larger businesses” – Appeals court grants emergency stay of requirement for firms with more than 100 employees to require Covid vaccinations by January 4th, reports the Guardian.
• “Clashes, arrests as hundreds protest against Covid mandates in Leipzig” – Hundreds of people took to the streets of the German city of Leipzig on Saturday to protest against the Government’s Covid measures, reports RT.
• “Communist Party culture of fear makes China the last redoubt for ‘zero-Covid’ lockdowns” – China remains determined to completely eradicate the disease at home, with party officials blamed for cases on their patch, writes Sophia Yan in the Telegraph.
• “FDA’s smoking gun: disinformation campaign targeting ivermectin” – “I highlighted the relentless smear campaign against this life-saving generic drug by a certain group of scientists/bloggers, which has been amplified in the mainstream media,” writes Sonia Elijah in Trialsite.
• “The disease of hypocrisy has become endemic” – From COP26 to the House of Commons, elites can’t break the habit of signalling their virtue while behaving appallingly, argues Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
• “Pitiful COP26 coverage shows our broadcasters prefer moralising to journalism” – This virtuous certainty of climate-change catastrophe needs to be challenged by proper democratic debate, writes Janet Daley, who criticises the media’s lack of objective scrutiny of COP26 in the Telegraph.
• “‘Climategate’ still matters – but not how the BBC thinks it does” – “The BBC is quite wrong to try to dismiss the public interest side and present it merely as some dark and dastardly crime,” writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “Stop telling kids they’ll die from climate change” – Many young people feel like their future is in peril. To make progress on climate change we must move past doomsday scenarios, argues Hannah Ritchie in Wired.
• “U.K. has ‘real problems’ with burning wood for electricity, admits Zac Goldsmith” – Environment minister acknowledges environmental concerns that large-scale use of biomass is harming forests and producing carbon emissions, reports the Telegraph.
• “Keep gender-identity ideology out of schools” – A primary school encouraging boys to wear skirts shows how trans thinking has seeped into schools, writes Gareth Sturdy in Spiked.
• “Has the militant left taken over the British Medical Association?” – The almighty battle at the heart of the doctors’ union might be the real reason you still can’t see your GP, writes Harry de Quetteville in the Telegraph.
• “Basingstoke ‘It’s okay to be white’ posters spark investigation” – The posters were found in multiple streets across Basingstoke and police are treating it as a hate crime, reports BBC News.
• “‘Domestic terrorist’ mum who’s leading a parental uprising against CRT” – Critical Race Theory being taught in American schools has angered many parents. But for one mother, it has led to her becoming a central figure in a nationwide battle that could permanently alter the structure of U.S. education,” writes Chris Sweeney in RT.
• “Councils are cancelling firework displays due to Covid” – Benjamin Loughnane of the Bow Group speaks to TalkRadio: “It’ll be a long, cold, miserable winter if they have their way. If you’re really scared of Covid, don’t go. But don’t ruin it for the rest of us!”