News Round-Up

• “Italy to end ban on health workers not vaccinated against Covid” – Reuters reports that Italian doctors and nurses suspended from work because they are not vaccinated against COVID-19 will soon be reinstated, new Health Minister Orazio Schillaci said on Friday.
• “China’s Zero-Covid policy has enabled Xi Jinping to consolidate supreme power” – The Communist party boss has once again locked down the people of Wuhan whilst remaining secretive about how the virus first spread, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
• “Rising non-Covid excess deaths reveal the disastrous legacy of the pandemic” – Sarah Knapton in the Telegraph reports that “experts believe higher deaths from heart complaints and diabetes mean the indirect effects of the pandemic will be greater than Covid itself”.
• “U.K. set for low Covid cases this Christmas as winter wave has already peaked” – The Telegraph reports on the modelling of UCL’s Professor Karl Friston, who suggests infections may start to rise significantly in January. This is despite the fact that in each of the last two winters, after the autumn wave has come a winter one that ends in January.
• “Dr. Peter McCullough is being progressively stripped of his medical credentials” – “Dr. Peter McCullough, one of the most respected doctors in the world, has been a beacon of light throughout this pandemic,” writes Steve Kirsch. “His reward for speaking the truth? He’s being stripped of his credentials.”
• “Dr. Philip McMillan cancelled by LinkedIn” – Thorsteinn Siglaugsson writes that Dr. Philip McMillan, “one of the most important researchers in the field of COVID-19 and the collection of symptoms called Long-Covid”, has now been deplatformed by LinkedIn.
• “Rishi Sunak will deny King Charles his trip to Cop27 in Egypt” – The Times reports that Rishi Sunak is upholding Liz Truss’s decision to stop King Charles attending the COP27 climate conference, despite the monarch “champing at the bit” to go.
• “Nicola Sturgeon slyly changes Holyrood record after lying about renewables” – The First Minister has been caught up in another misinformation storm after claiming Scotland’s energy consumption is covered fully by renewable energy sources which is not true, reports the Scottish Daily Express.
• “Electric car owners may face taxes within three years” – A Whitehall source told the Telegraph it is now inevitable that electric vehicles will be subject to road tax “at some point”.
• “Why Just Stop Oil is so wrong about fossil fuels” – The eco-zealots’ childish demands are a recipe for disaster, says Andy Mayer in Spiked.
• “Just Stop! Furious Met police chief hits out at Just Stop Oil eco-zealots saying their 29 days of action in London has cost 7,900 shifts that could have been used to beat knife crime and solve burglaries” – The Metropolitan Police has blasted Just Stop Oil who are engaged in a month-long protest across the capital, accusing them of tying up officers who should be out beating knife crime and solving burglaries, reports the Mail.
• “What’s wrong with being an apocalypse denier?” – Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator says that eco activists are mistaken: the world isn’t about to end.
• “Now is no time for complacency. We’re still facing defeat in the woke war” – Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph says while there have been some promising signs, there is a “very long way to go in the battle for common sense”.
• “Rishi Sunak to stamp out ‘woke’ policing” – Ministers are “studying the example of a no-nonsense chief who overhauled the failing Greater Manchester Police”, according to the Telegraph.
• “Britain’s first ‘black university’ does not have permission to use official university title” – Britain’s first “black university”, which includes a course on “burning s*** down”, does not have permission to use an official university title, it has emerged, the Telegraph reports.
• “Cambridge University students set to receive free speech training” – The new project led by Professor Arif Ahmed has been initiated to counter an increasingly prevalent ‘cancel culture’ on campus, reports the Telegraph.
• “Cambridge alumni pulling funding from college after academics said gender speaker was ‘hateful’” – Cambridge University alumni are pulling funding from their college in an intensifying row over the master announcing she was boycotting a “hateful” gender-critical speaker, reports the Telegraph.
• “Pelosi Attack Suspect Was A Psychotic Homeless Addict Estranged From His Paedophile Lover and Their Children” – Michael Shellenberger writes that Berkeley resident David DePape was more in the grip of drug-induced psychosis than ideology-induced fanaticism – and was known to neighbours as radically Left-wing.
• “Elon Musk: ‘Anyone suspended for minor and dubious reasons will be freed from Twitter jail’” – Reclaim the Net reports Musk’s first comments on account reinstatements, content moderation, and shadowbanning since buying the platform, though details remain unclear.
• “The Consortium Imposing the Growing Censorship Regime” – “The rapid escalation of online censorship, and increasingly offline censorship, cannot be overstated,” writes Glenn Greenwald. It is facilitated by ‘fact-checkers’, “funded by a consortium of a small handful of neoliberal billionaires (George Soros and Pierre Omidyar) along with U.S., British and EU intelligence agencies”.
• “The growing threat of financial censorship” – Freddie Attenborough writes in the Critic that the IMF’s Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva, revealed that the UN’s major financial agency doesn’t like people using cash and wants to “change that preference”.
• “What Have Fossil Fuels Ever Done For Us?” – Watch Argonaut’s informative 15-minute video on how fossil fuels transformed the human condition and created the modern world.

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