News Round-Up

• “A Contagion of Cowardice” – More than people right now are willing to admit, civil society as we knew it collapsed over these three years, says Jeffrey A. Tucker in Brownstone.
• “A Major News Service Finally Covered the Epidemic of Sudden Deaths” – Ed Dowd’s segment on Tucker Carlson may red-pill those still committed to the vaccine narrative, writes A Midwestern Doctor.
• “Five Lessons from Three Years of Authoritarianism” – In retrospect, America in February of 2020 seems like a libertarian, innocent age compared to our current one, writes Seth Smith in Brownstone.
• “‘School closures and nursing home visitor bans were inhumane’ – Nphet member breaks ranks on our Covid response” – Professor Martin Cormican explains the many mistakes he believes Ireland made during Covid, in Independent.ie.
• “Following third dose of BNT162b2, adverse events increased in those with prior COVID-19” – Previous SARS-CoV-2 infection exacerbates the adverse reactions experienced after receipt of the third booster dose, according to News Medical.
• “Mark Mills: The energy transition delusion: inescapable mineral realities” – Energy expert Mark Mills speaks at SKAGEN Funds New Years Conference 2023, in WUWT.
• “Sadiq Khan’s ULEZ London is a perfect place for Tories to win back voters” – Is Sadiq Khan the worst politician in Britain? asks Robert Colville in the Times.
• “Lord Frost hits out at Labour ‘fiction’ that scrapping EU laws will lead to rights bonfire” – Former Brexit negotiator accuses party of trying to “frighten” people over the review of all rules inherited from Brussels, according to the Telegraph.
• “School Choice Is Not Enough: The Impact of Critical Social Justice Ideology in American Education” – Critical Race Theory and radical gender ideology are endemic in American schools, according to the Manhattan Institute.
• “Raquel Evita Saraswati and the new ‘race fakers’” – Joanna Williams in the Spectator explores the new trend of people lying about their race to get ahead. Peak woke indeed.
• “Thank heavens for Queen Camilla, who saved Britain from Roald Dahl censorship” – It’s refreshing to have a high-profile member of the Royal family give a voice to the silent majority, writes Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
• “Justin Trudeau, Canada’s clown prince, is the future of the woke West” – Shallow, shameless, self-aggrandising, and obsessed with moral posturing – the Canadian PM should serve as a warning, writes Jordan Peterson in the Telegraph.
• “Daniel Mays: ‘The whole cancellation thing is wrong. And it makes me very, very nervous’” – Actor Daniel Mays admits that cancel culture scares him, citing the treatment of Laurence Fox, in the Telegraph.
• “Christians being sent to labour camps and executed in North Korea” – A charity says Christians are being rounded up in the dead of night as Kim Jong-un grows ever more paranoid about the threat of sedition, the Telegraph reports.
• “Trans U-turn is belated victory for free speech” – It was a long time coming, but this week Joe Kahn, executive editor of the New York Times, upheld the right of journalists to do journalism, writes Janice Turner in the Times.
• “Cambridge blocked white students from applying for course” – The Telegraph reports on yet another example of systemic racism against white people, this time at Cambridge university.
• “Prince Harry and Meghan now ‘more unpopular than Prince Andrew’ in U.S.” – The Duke of Sussex’s popularity has sunk 48 points since December, when the couple’s Netflix documentary was released, according to the Telegraph.
• “The clash between trans rights and women’s safety” – Ruby Sampson recounts a troubling bathroom confrontation with a man claiming to be a trans woman, in the Mail.
• “BBC bans fans of The Archers from posting on show’s Facebook page” – The BBC has banned fans of The Archers from putting messages on the show’s official Facebook page after they criticised its “woke” storylines, according to the Mail.
• “Chaplain told pupils they were allowed to disagree with LGBT policies” – School chaplain Reverend Dr Bernard Randall, sacked for defending the right to question new LGBT policies, has spoken of his fears for freedom of speech after losing an unfair dismissal case, the Mail reports.
• “Love Island is embroiled in ‘toxic femininity’ row” – Love Island is embroiled in a ‘toxic femininity’ row after women on the show reduced some of the male contestants to tears, the Mail reports.
• “The woke censors are not going anywhere” – Having two versions of Roald Dahl’s books is not a victory for common sense. It further entrenches the culture wars, says Dominic Green in the Telegraph.
• “Roald Dahl warned ‘politically correct’ publishers – ‘change one word and deal with my crocodile’” – Roald Dahl threatened to strike if editors changed “a single comma” of his writing and claimed “Marx and Lenin” were responsible, according to the Telegraph.
• “James Bond books edited by sensitivity readers” – Reissued versions of Ian Fleming’s classic works will feature a disclaimer following a review by sensitivity readers, the Telegraph reports.
• “What if ‘sensitivity readers’ came for my novels?” – Lionel Shriver updates We Need to Talk About Kevin for our more ‘progressive’ times, in Spiked.
• “The many missteps of Humza Yousaf” – The apparently irresistible rise of Humza Yousaf reveals much about the dearth of talent at the very top of Scottish politics, says Jawad Iqbal in the Spectator.
• “The Jasmine Sari” – Country Squire reviews The Jasmine Sari, by Philip Tucker, sponsor of the Weekly Sceptic podcast!
• “Teenager Exposes Woke School Board” – Watch this heroic school student share his experience of the woke, CRT-infested education system.

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