News Round-Up

• “The WHO names Sir Jeremy Farrar as its Chief Scientist” – Sir Jeremy Farrar, currently head of the Wellcome Trust, the U.K.’s biggest private research funding body, originally believed the pandemic may have been sparked by ‘Wild West’ virus experiments in China, but overnight became a leading opponent of investigating a lab leak, the Mail reports.
• “Care home had right to sack staff who refused Covid jab, tribunal rules” – An employment judge has thrown out claims of unfair dismissal, saying the home fired the unvaccinated workers to protect clinically vulnerable lives, the Telegraph reports.
• “What are people not dying of” – A thorough analysis of excess mortality by cause, ethnicity and socioeconomic status from the Health Advisory and Recovery Team (HART) which gives further reason to suspect the vaccines are playing an outsize role.
• “The Government Conspired with Big Tech to Infringe on Free Speech” – Justin Hart writes in Brownstone that the bottom line is the Government conspired to remove valid public health messages and social media posts.
• “The Exaggeration of Long Covid” – Marty Makary writes in the Wall Street Journal that lingering symptoms after a respiratory infection are common, and most cases are too mild to worry about.
• “Peter McCullough and Robert Malone are back on Twitter” – Steve Kirsch notes two of his fellow inhabitants of Twitter heaven have been sent back to the land of the living. Also reported in the Mail.
• “Covid is still a deadly threat in Britain – we can’t just pretend it’s gone away” – Without a plan in place to minimise infection, a ‘moving on’ strategy leaves vulnerable people behind, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan. Really.
• “Pandemicism and the Foreknowledge of the Virus Planners” – Eugyppius makes the case for lockdowns in the West being largely a result of panic and following China’s lead.
• “When will they come clean over the radiation risks of 5G?” – Gillian Jamieson in TCW on the potential harms of electromagnetic radiation.
• “Extraordinary moment Jacinda Ardern lose it and calls political rival ‘arrogant p****’ in parliament – before sending an apologetic text referencing her mum” – An under-pressure Jacinda Ardern was caught in an embarrassing hot mic moment, insulting the leader of New Zealand’s ACT Party, David Seymour, the Mail reports.
• “Ex-Twitter censor Yoel Roth and his boyfriend are forced to flee their $1.1m home after his thesis – which supports letting children use gay hook-up app Grindr – is shared by Elon Musk” – Twitter’s former head of trust and safety Yoel Roth and his family have been forced from their California home following a torrent of threats and harassment, reports the Mail.
• “The Twitter Files show Donald Trump should never have been banned” – The latest Twitter Files revelations are the most disturbing yet, writes Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
• “The real reason why Britain has gone woke under the Tories” – Tim Stanley writes in the Telegraph that “HR-speak has conquered Westminster as top Conservatives talk politically correct nonsense in the hope of winning the centre ground”.
• “Harry and Meghan’s U.K. popularity plunges following Netflix series release” – A poll found three in five Britons think negatively of the Duke of Sussex and two-thirds of those polled have a low opinion of the Duchess, the Telegraph reports.
• “What do Harry and Meghan want?” – Rakib Ehsan writes in the Critic that the goals of ‘anti-racism’ have diverged from reality.
• “Sex not limited to biological sex, Scottish court rules” – The decision has profoundly troubling consequences for women and is very likely to be appealed, says Joan Smith in UnHerd.
• “How I learned to love free speech” – Meghan Murphy is interviewed in Spiked on the liberal-Left’s dangerous embrace of Big Tech censorship.
• “Christian teacher jailed following refusing to use gender-neutral pronouns is told he will remain behind bars for Christmas after telling court he should not be jailed for his views on ‘transgenderism’” – Enoch Burke was jailed in September after refusing to obey a court order to stay away from Wilson’s Hospital School in County Westmeath, Ireland, a school he is employed at, and the court has refused to let him out for Christmas, the Mail reports.
• “The Optimistic Nihilists” – Ewan Morrison in Areo describes a dangerous trend in mental health advice for Gen Z: optimistic nihilism.
• “A prominent leader of the British Heart Foundation has conspired to cover-up research linking mRNA jabs with heart inflammation, says British MP” – Watch Andrew Bridgen MP tell the House of Commons: “It has also been brought to my attention by a whistleblower from a very reliable source that one of these institutions is covering up clear data that reveals that the mRNA vaccine increases inflammation of the heart arteries. It is covering this up for fear that it may lose funding from the pharmaceutical industry. The lead of that cardiology research department has a prominent leadership role with the British Heart Foundation, and I am disappointed to say that he has sent out non-disclosure agreements to his research team to ensure that this important data never sees the light of day.”

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