News Round-Up

• “First, Jacinda Ardern. Now Nicola Sturgeon. Justin Trudeau will be next” – I foresaw the SNP leader’s fall, and the next victim of ‘Go Woke, Go Broke’ is already on the conveyor belt to his political demise, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Telegraph.
• “Nicola Sturgeon’s woke authoritarianism” – There was nothing ‘progressive’ about the First Minister’s reign, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
• “If it weren’t for J.K. Rowling, Nicola Sturgeon would never have fallen” – Scotland’s departing First Minister shattered her reputation with a calamitous self-ID plan that made her look desperately out of her depth, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “The World Health Organisation is putting us all in danger” – The failure to speedily investigate Covid’s real origins leaves us vulnerable to another pandemic, argues Matt Ridley in the Telegraph.
• “WHO ‘Abandons Plans for Covid Origin Investigation’. A Perfect Cover-Up?” – Igor Chudov points out that the WHO decision to end the probe occurred after Fauci co-conspirator Dr. Jeremy Farrar became its Chief Scientist.
• “Wartime Parallels: Iraq and Covid” – Ramesh Thakur in Brownstone notes the similarities between the war on terror and the war on Covid.
• “Why Observational Studies shouldn’t be used to assess Respiratory Virus Interventions – Part 3” – Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan offer a response to comments on Jefferson’s Cochrane review of mask evidence.
• “Jewish scientists call on Prime Minister to withdraw antisemitism claims against Andrew Bridgen” – Leicester Mercury report that Jewish scientists from around the world have called on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to withdraw claims that Leicestershire MP Andrew Bridgen is guilty of making antisemitic comments. 
• “The Honorable Andrew Bridgen MP” – Dr. Robert Malone offers his fulsome support for the targeted MP.
• “The truth about conspiracy Britain” – The latest data from UnHerd Britain reveals that 38% of the British population agrees that “The world is controlled by a secretive elite”, while 33% disagree and 30% are not sure.
• “EVs Are Failing To Break Into Mass Market” – Paul Homewood in WUWT suggests the “simple reality is that there is only limited demand for the upmarket cars currently dominating the EV sector; and many of these sales are for company cars, bought mainly for tax reasons”.
• “Who really blew up the Nord Stream 2 pipeline?” – UnHerd‘s Freddy Sayers interviews Jeffrey Sachs and takes him to task over his claims that it was the U.S. wot done it.
• “Nord Stream Update: In lengthy interview with the Berliner Zeitung, Seymour Hersh offers more intriguing details about his source’s account of the attack” – It’s been a week since Seymour Hersh published his post on “How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline” and now he’s giving some more details, says Eugyppius.
• “Blowing Holes in Seymour Hersh’s Pipe Dream” – On the surface Seymour Hersh’s story looks passable, but as you dig deeper it has more holes than the Nord Stream pipeline, argues Oliver Alexander.
• “Do ordinary Russians support Putin’s war?” – Western analysts are spreading a false narrative of Russian popular discontent, says Jade McGlynn in UnHerd.
• “Posturing Sunak needs a Ukraine reality check” – Patrick Benham-Crosswell in TCW looks at the munitions supply issues facing the NATO-backed country.
• “Elon Musk to stay as Twitter chief for almost another year” – Telegraph report that the Tesla billionaire says he still needs to stabilise the platform after taking over in October.
• “New York Times accused by own writers of anti-trans bigotry” – The New York Times has been accused by its own writers of fomenting “bigotry and pseudoscience” against trans people, the Telegraph reports.
• “What Idris Elba gets right about race” – Today’s identitarian obsession with skin colour is divisive and destructive, says Inaya Folarin Iman in Spiked.
• “What fresh linguistic hell is this?’ Viewers of BBC’s One Show baffled as Sam Smith reveals dream of becoming a ‘fisher-them’ in chat about secret love of fly fishing (before correcting presenter who ‘misgendered’ them [sic] as a ‘fisherman’)” – Sam Smith baffled viewers by correcting a presenter who ‘misgendered’ him – but since the Mail insists on using preferred rather than accurate pronouns, its reporting is equalling baffling.
• “When did medicine start sounding like a cult?” – Watch: The Columbia Medical School has altered its Hippocratic oath to include pledges of fealty to Neo-Marxist and woke ideology.

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