News Round-Up

• “Pfizer and Moderna launch trials to track whether health issues arise years after getting their Covid vaccines” – The Mail reports that Moderna and Pfizer will investigate whether their shots cause long term issues as the first trials to determine long term impacts of the vaccine on the population are announced.
• “Can China let go of Zero Covid?” – A perfect storm of popular dissatisfaction awaits, writes Bill Hayton in UnHerd.
• “China abandons ‘one size fits all’ Covid policy” – Freddie Sayers in UnHerd says some of the CCP’s changes to its Zero Covid policy are redolent of the ‘focused protection’ of the Great Barrington Declaration, as Beijing censures local governments for being too draconian.
• “Prof. Norman Fenton puts the U.K. Statistics Regulator on Notice for Allowing Flawed Statistical Analysis to Influence Public Health Policy” – Joel Smalley writes that glaring anomalies in the Covid vaccine surveillance bulletins continue to go unaddressed.
• “They Can Backtrack All They Like. We Will Never Forget” – Watch a new YouTube compilation of some of the appalling things Covidians said and did during the pandemic.
• “Journal Editor in Chief who published controversial Covid papers resigns” – Jose L. Domingo, the Editor in Chief of the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology has resigned with more than a year left of his term, reports Retraction Watch.
• “Group for those affected by pandemic response appeal to Elon Musk after account was banned this week” – Law or Fiction was banned without warning and no specific reason given, reports Reclaim the Net. Come on, Elon.
• “How the treacherous GMC victimises honest doctors” – Dr. Sarah Myhill writes for TCW Defending Freedom that she is currently being investigated by the GMC for her advocacy of vitamin C, vitamin D and iodine – “all scientifically proven, effective, inexpensive, safe interventions which are available to all”.
• “Lockdowns, vested interests and why Jeremy Farrar should struggle to sleep at night” – Paula Jardine in TCW Defending Freedom writes that for Farrar, the lockdowns appear to have initially been a tool to shake down governments into providing the funds for CEPI and others to implement their biosecurity “War on Microbes” business plan. 
• “They Will Lock You Down Again” – Jeffrey Tucker warns in Brownstone that the machinery that took away liberty and property in the name of virus control is still in place.
• “‘A bewildering choice!’ RFK Jr. is ‘baffled’ by his family’s decision to honour Prince Harry and Meghan with prestigious human rights award in NYC… as tickets for glitzy December gala go on sale for up to $1 million” – Speaking to the Mail, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said it was however “still an encouraging step up” from Anthony Fauci, who won the award two years ago on behalf of his handling of COVID-19.
• “Adding fluoride to water supplies ‘only has a small benefit’ to children’s teeth” – The Government wants to add the mineral to drinking supplies to cut tooth decay, but scientists say it makes no more than a modest difference, according to the Telegraph.
• “Police force ‘running out of vegan meals’ after Just Stop Oil protest” – Essex Police is said to be “running out of vegan meals” after arresting so many Just Stop Oil protesters this week, the Mail reports.
• “The Energy Future Belongs to Nuclear” – Regis Nicoll writes in Quilette that it remains the only proven technology capable of serving the energy needs of decarbonised modern society.
• “Jeff Bezos promises to give bulk of $124bn fortune to charity” – The billionaires’ ex-wife has also committed to giving away half her wealth, reports the Telegraph. Is this really what the world needs right now: more ‘philanthropic’ billionaires funding woke, technocratic and authoritarian vanity projects?
• “Britain has finally woken up to the scandal of illegal immigration” – Polls show the public has rightfully lost patience over failures to regain control of our borders, and a reckoning will follow, writes Douglas Murray in the Telegraph.
• “ID cards are a civil servant’s dream – and the public’s worst nightmare” – What such schemes really reflect is a utopian bureaucratic desire to impose order onto chaos from the top-down, says Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
• “Twitter sharia: Elon Musk verifies Jesus, but Mohammed is ‘suspended’” – Archbishop Cranmer wonders why a Jesus parody account is allowed but a Prophet Mohammed one is not.
• “Why shouldn’t young black people be Right-wing?” – Inaya Folarin Iman in UnHerd notes that a Channel 4 documentary fails to grasp why some minorities lean conservative.
• “Ideology or therapy?” – Claire Foster and Juliet Harrison write in the Critic that trainee psychologists are being taught harmful dogma and are encouraged to abandon evidence-based treatment in the name of Critical Race Theory.
• “The Welsh Government’s murder of childhood innocence” – Father Ted writer Graham Linehan writes in TCW Defending Freedom on the highly dubious ideas behind the new mandatory children’s ‘sexuality education’ for Welsh children aged three years and up.
• “How war over trans rights is killing free speech at ‘world’s most sanctimonious’ paper: An exodus of women writers amid bullying allegations. A male columnist lashing out at anyone who disagrees with him. And an editor who’s letting him get away with it” – The Guardian has been accused by one of its columnists of “censoring” important discussions about gender identity, reports the Mail.
• “For asking questions, we were demonised, ridiculed… The possibility of mandatory vaccines hung over everybody’s head” – Watch Neil Oliver tell Dan Wootton on GB News why we should not be expected to sweep Covid hysteria under the rug.

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