News Round-Up

• “Don’t give granny flu at Christmas: Festive revellers are urged not to mix with vulnerable relatives if they are ill to avoid overloading struggling NHS” – Here we go again: the Mail reports that as the health service is braced for its “darkest” ever festive period as it battles a flu surge, a bed-blocking crisis and the aftermath of strikes, UKHSA chief Dr. Mary Ramsay urges people to stay apart if they have a sniffle.
• “mRNA Vaccines Causing High Rate of Injuries, Must Be Halted: Cardiologists” – The Epoch Times hears from Dr. Aseem Malhotra and Dr. Peter McCullough who say a large percentage of patients have been injured by the mRNA vaccines and they must be halted.
• “Data on Neonatal Deaths from Major Israeli Health Insurer Shows Huge Spikes” – Alarming new data show the rate of neonatal deaths tripling after Covid vaccination drives, writes Josh Guetzkow.
• “Swedish birthrate data: October is the worst decline yet” – El Gato Malo with a worrying update from Sweden.
• “The Age of Amnesia” – Jeffrey Tucker writes in the Epoch Times: “We have entered into an age of amnesia with a ruling class that wants everyone to forget the wisdom of the past and even the events of recent history, to forgive but mostly to forget and move on like good little pawns in their game. Just do what we are told and forget everything else.”
• “VAERS isn’t overreported. That’s a big fat lie” – If Covid vaccine adverse events are over-reported because of newly raised awareness of the system, why are those for other vaccines not also elevated, asks Steve Kirsch.
• “How the U.S. and China Colluded On Covid!” – Watch Russell Brand chat to Michael Senger, the author of Snake Oil: How Xi Jinping Shut Down The World.
• “Confronting a Naked Emperor” – Dr. Robert Malone finally accepts that his brainchild, the mRNA vaccine, must be buried, and that no good will now come from the technology.
• “EU approves CO₂ tax on heating and transport, softened by new social climate fund” – EU legislators agreed on December 18th to introduce a carbon price on buildings and road transport fuels, with a new €87 billion social climate fund established in parallel to cushion the impact on households and help them invest in green solutions, EURACTIV reports.
• “The BBC Is Making Money Producing Glossy Tourism Ads For China’s Propaganda Machine” – BBC commercial unit StoryWorks has “years-long ties to China and is making money producing sponsored content for the Chinese propaganda machine and the country’s biggest companies” Deadline reports.
• “‘New religion of woke has neither forgiveness nor humanity’” – “The Western World, filled with so much potential, with so much intellectual capacity, with such past glories in all spheres, from music to architecture, from science to philosophy, seems committed to its own euthanasia,” writes Alex Story in the Express.
• “I helped found Stonewall. But today I plead with every business and public body signed up to its Diversity Champions scheme to reconsider” – Simon Fanshawe makes his plea in the Mail.
• “All these celebrities were cancelled. But only some came back from the dead” – From Jimmy Carr to J.K. Rowling, these days it doesn’t take much for a comment to become a career-ender. But not all consequences are equal, says Lucy Foster in the Telegraph.
• “Nicola Sturgeon’s Gender Reform Bill faces veto under never-before-used legal powers” – MSPs backed the legislation, which will allow transgender people to self-identify, but the U.K. Government may veto it because of its clear and wide-ranging impact on the whole of the U.K.
• “No dwarfs. No Prince. Disney’s new Snow White is a bid not to leave the snowflake generation grumpy” – Alison Boshoff in the Mail on the woke new Disney Snow White that has axed the Dwarfs and the Prince. For real.
• “Is Andrew Tate becoming the new Jordan Peterson?” – Andrew Tate’s fame has grown immensely after media reports of him being banned from various platforms and his reinstatement to Twitter was a triumph, but is he sincere, asks Greta Aurora in UnHerd.
• “Should it be a crime to pray outside an abortion clinic?” – The director of an anti-abortion group is facing prosecution after praying in front of an abortion clinic in Birmingham, says Melanie McDonagh in the Spectator.
• “Thoughtcrime is now a reality in Britain” – Why was an activist arrested for praying silently in the street, asks Andrew Tettenborn in Spiked.
• “A Conservative Government should not be criminalising silent prayer” – “A woman has just been arrested not even for speaking, but for thinking the wrong thoughts. And it is a policy that could be rolled out across the country,” writes Lois McLatchie on ConservativeHome.
• “Germany asks the EU to curb Twitter under Musk” – A senior German official on Thursday told the European Commission that Twitter should be regulated under new EU rules on digital markets, saying the company posed a threat to free speech under Elon Musk, reports DW.
• “The Covid Redemption with Tim Robbins” – Watch Shawshank star Tim Robbins tell Russell Brand how he was red-pilled.

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