News Round-Up

• “Violence breaks out in Vienna as 10,000 protesters take to the streets” – “Demonstrations against virus restrictions also took place in Switzerland, Croatia, Italy, Northern Ireland, the Netherlands and North Macedonia on Saturday,” reports MailOnline.
• “It’ll only get worse” – S.D. Wickett and Luke Perry discuss the return of draconian lockdown measures to Continental Europe in Bournbrook Magazine’s regular podcast.
• “What goes around comes around? U.K. won’t suffer the kind of Covid crisis engulfing the E.U.” – Once derided for relaxing restrictions as virus cases rose, Britain can now look forward to a relatively better Christmas than Europe, argues Andrew Lilico in the Telegraph.
• “Why the thought of another lockdown is so terrifying” – We still haven’t processed the psychological trauma of last year, writes Rachael Cunliffe in the New Statesman.
• “Rise in U.K. non-Covid deaths set to continue” – “One of the world’s foremost cancer experts has said that British lockdown policies are still having an impact on excess mortality,” reports the Epoch Times.
• “Employers alter ‘Covid vaccinated only’ adverts” – “Businesses that could be illegally demanding proof of vaccination as a condition of employment have taken down their job advertisements,” reports the Times.
• “Vaccine damage payouts in U.K. could soar next year” – “The number of claims for the U.K.’s vaccine injury scheme is expected to be 18 times higher next year, according to a Government-backed health body,” reports the Epoch Times.
• “British anti-vaccine passport protesters gather at Austrian embassy” – “Footage shared on social media showed crowds of people gathered outside the Austrian embassy in London, holding banners and waving flags,” reports MailOnline. 
• “New documents back theory that Covid outbreak started in Wuhan lab” – Leaked documents add more weight to the theory that the virus leaked from the city’s Institute of Virology, say campaigners, reports the Telegraph.
• “How lockdowns for the unvaccinated swept across central Europe” – Locking down the unvaccinated may be seen as a necessary public health measure by political leaders in central Europe, but it creates a two-tier society that will only increase the level of resentment and division, argues William Nattrass in the Spectator.
• “Covid: the surprising fourth wave” – Why some countries are being hit by fourth waves of Covid despite high vaccination rates, and why other countries aren’t, writes Sebastian Rushworth in his latest blog post.
• “Covid, propaganda and the coming genocide?” – This talk by Dr. Colin Alexander will explore the extent to which the draconian actions of governments during the pandemic are similar to early stages of genocide.
• “‘This is an attack on human rights’: U.K. care homes still denying family visits to residents” – Relatives and support groups claim that the sector has been ‘left behind’ as the rest of society opens up, reports the Guardian.
• “The dismal truth about the E.U. has finally been exposed” – Brussels purports to be a guardian of rights, but is strangely silent about the treatment of the unvaccinated, writes Douglas Murray in the Telegraph.
• “Andrew Cuomo misrepresented Covid death toll of nursing home residents” – Former Governor Andrew Cuomo misrepresented the number of nursing home residents who died due to Covid, according to a lawmaker who viewed the nearly 45-page still-secret report, reports the Mail.
• “Factchecking BBC’s ‘reality check‘” – “The BBC has published a supposed reality check on what ‘climate deniers’ say. Unsurprisingly it is full of strawmen, omissions, half truths and disinformation,” says Paul Homewood in Not A Lot Of People Know That.
• “Stop treating children as would-be racists” – “Clearly, there is no epidemic of racism in schools. And there is certainly no need to push teachers to record every mundane playground spat as a ‘racist incident‘,” argues Adrian Hart in Spiked.
• “Why I sued PinkNews” – “The last thing I would want to do, as a journalist, is to sue a publication for libel. But after enduring years of distress and provocation from PinkNews, I finally changed my mind,” writes Julie Bindel in Spiked.
• “Why are we repudiating the values that allowed the West to triumph?” – Victory in the Cold War appears, paradoxically, to have made it safe to look again at left-wing ideas, writes Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
• “Reminder of what they said and the lies they told” – Do the vaccines prevent transmission, or do they not? This video showcases the statements made by high-profile figures who, at first, heralded the effectiveness of the vaccines, only to back-track on what they said at a later date.