News Round-Up

• “Experts call for lab leak-denying doctor Jeremy Farrar to be fired from new post as World Health Organisation’s Chief Scientist after he censored debate about Covid’s origin” – Experts say Dr. Farrar’s appointment to the World Health Organisation was a “major unforced error” and are calling for him not to take up the position, reports the Mail.
• “Get ready for another batch of Covid vaccines this spring: All over-75s, care home residents and vulnerable people to get top-up jab offer from mid-April” – Professor Wei Shen Lim, Chairman of the JCVI’s Covid committee, said: “Vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself against Covid,” the Mail reports. As safe and effective as ever as we move onto dose six.
• “Cabinet Secretary Simon Case ‘considers quitting’ before the next election after humiliating Covid WhatsApp leaks showed him claiming that ex boss Boris Johnson was ‘nationally distrusted’” – Cabinet Secretary Simon Case is mulling stepping down from the post before the next election, expected late in 2024, reports the Mail.
• “Rishi Sunak rebukes Matt Hancock over plot to block disability funding” – The PM’s spokesman says “of course” ministers should not operate that way after a conversation between the ex-Health Secretary and an aide was revealed, reports the Telegraph.
• “Man and woman are charged with murdering one-year-old baby boy during Covid lockdown” – Emergency services were scrambled to an address in Hernhill near Faversham, Kent on November 28th 2020, following concerns for the welfare of the child, police said in a statement, according to the Mail.
• “There is a worrying amount of fraud in medical research” – And a worrying unwillingness to do anything about it, says the Economist.
• “From Covid to Crickets: Japan pushes edible insects” – Now that they’ve stopped telling the public to constantly cover their mouths, Japan’s Government and media have moved on to telling the public to put bugs into them, says Guy Gin.
• “A million a day” – Have you ever wondered where all the Covid money went, ask Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
• “People desperately want to believe lockdown was for the greater good – even when the evidence of manipulation is clear” – The Lockdown Files are a warning to never let Government ‘scare the pants’ off us again, writes Laura Dodsworth.
• “V-Safe Part 8: CDC Falsely Claims To Major Media Outlet That the 7.7% Medical Care Figure Was Wrong!” – Aaron Siri shines a spotlight on the official misinformation around the vaccines.
• “Claims the unvaccinated were at higher risk of hospitalisation and death were based on deliberately murky record keeping” – Another statistical illusion of efficacy was manufactured by simple miscategorisation, writes Norman Fenton.
• “America’s Covid Response Was Based on Lies” – “We have seen an Orwellian attempt to rewrite history and to blame the failure of widespread lockdowns on the lockdowns’ critics,” writes Scott Atlas in Newsweek.
• “Toby Young & Bev Lockwood on The Alan Miller Show” – Listen to Toby’s appearance.
• “Covid not deadly enough to fast-track vaccines, Chris Whitty advised ministers” – The Chief Medical Officer gave his opinion in February 2020 after Dominic Cummings mentioned Israel was planning to inoculate the population, reports the Telegraph.
• “The official Covid inquiry is turning into a ruinous, out of control monster” – Its chair must not allow the proceedings to be hijacked by vested interests or political pressure groups, says Philip Johnston in the Telegraph.
• “New Covid Boosters’ Protection Waned After Two Months, Study Says” – COVID-19 bivalent boosters’ protection against death and hospitalisation in elderly people began waning as soon as two months after vaccination, according to a preprint study reported in Bloomberg.
• “Climate change: Warming could raise U.K. flood damage bill by 20%” – Cutting greenhouse gas emissions could save millions of pounds in flood damage costs, according to the BBC…
• “How Labour council applied for its own 400 vehicles to be exempt from London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s controversial ULEZ expansion” – A Labour council was accused of hypocrisy after backing Sadiq Khan’s controversial expansion of London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone – then asking for an exemption for its own 400 vehicles, the Mail reports.
• “Emergency coal plants fired up as cold snap raises risk of blackouts tonight” – Supply will be tight as temperatures drop, National Grid warns, according to the Telegraph.
• “Police tell Catholic woman ‘praying is an offence’ as she is arrested for second time for silently praying in ‘exclusion zone’ outside abortion clinic” – The arrest comes just weeks after she was found not guilty for the same offence, the Mail reports.
• “A cheapened currency – why does the Bank of England think prejudice against private schools is OK?” – The Bank has barred independent schools kids from talks at its museum, says David James in CapX.
• “Britain Isn’t Working” – Many organisations in the U.K. no longer function, or no longer function in the way originally intended, because they are stuck in a ‘woke’ iron grip, argues Roger Watson in the European Conservative.
• “Tory revolt over graphic sexual content taught to children in school” – Nearly 50 MPs have written a letter calling on Rishi Sunak to take action against “radical and unevidenced ideologies”, the Telegraph reports.
• “Is the tide turning on DEI?” – As U.S. universities announce bans on requiring diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) statements for admissions and faculty hiring, even progressive groups are voicing their concerns about the agenda, writes John Sailer in UnHerd.
• “Just say no to digital ID” – Tony Blair and William Hague’s scheme would rob us of our civil liberties, writes James Woudhuysen in Spiked.
• “Lego has gone woke. Seriously” – Children’s lives are being colonised by identity politics, warns Darragh McManus in Spiked.
• “Eddie Izzard says opposing Nicola Sturgeon’s gender law is not transphobic as would-be Labour MP reveals new name as Suzy… but admits sometimes getting her [sic] own pronouns wrong” – Comedian and would-be MP Eddie Izzard said he had wanted the name Suzy since he was 10, but people “could not go wrong” whichever they decided to use, according to the Mail.
• “Nord Stream pipelines blown up by pro-Ukrainian group, U.S. intelligence suggests” – Officials say there is no evidence Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian President, or any of his top aides were involved, reports the Telegraph. Sounds like (im)plausible deniability to me.
• “The demands of the liberal establishment are so extreme that they have become anti-democratic. They do not trust the people to govern themselves” – Watch Jacob Rees-Mogg give his views on the Prevent anti-terrorism programme, which treated him as a terror threat, in his GB News Moggologue.

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