News Round-Up

• “Edinburgh Fringe forces teary Graham Linehan to perform in the street” – Graham Linehan broke down on Thursday night as he vowed to defeat “evil trans activists” during a defiant street performance after two venues cancelled an Edinburgh Fringe show over his views, reports the Mail.
• “Inside comedian Graham Linehan’s ‘cancelled’ show at the Edinburgh Fringe” – Dominic Cavendish reviews Graham Linehan’s stand-up set in Edinburgh in the Telegraph.
• “TalkTV’s interview with Graham Linehan was a disaster” – Gareth Roberts in the Spectator is unimpressed by Rosanna Lockwood, a stand-in in for Piers Morgan who interviewed Linehan on TalkTV.
• “Edinburgh has become an anti-Enlightenment cauldron” – From being an exporter of tolerance and reason, Scotland now represents the dawn of a new Dark Age, writes Jenny Hjul in the Telegraph.
• “The Times view on cancel culture at Edinburgh: Beyond the Fringe” – The Times takes aim at the censorious activists who are ruining the Edinburgh Festival in a strong editorial.
• “Edinburgh book festival boycott authors due at Baillie Gifford’s other events” – Zadie Smith is among the authors who are threatening to boycott the Edinburgh International Book Festival next year — but many of those authors are set to appear at other festivals sponsored by Baillie Gifford this year, reports the Times.
• “Why are the Covid hysterics at it again?” – Alex Berenson explains why the drumbeat for Covid restrictions is back in his Substack
• “Private Covid vaccines may soon be on sale in UK for the first time” – Covid jab manufacturers are preparing to make booster shots available for the public to buy after health officials gave the green light to private sales, according to the Times.
• “Flu and Covid patients could stay at home in virtual wards” – Flu and Covid patients could be treated at home this winter on virtual wards, says the Times.
• “NHS care has become a festering wound in the face of our nation” – Isabel Oakeshott reports on a miserable NHS experience involving an elderly relative in the Telegraph.
• “Vivek Ramaswamy lists 10 commandments of 2024 campaign, gets promoted by Elon Musk ” – Ramaswamy, a rising star among 2024 Republican candidates, is threatening to knock out Ron DeSantis as the main challenger to Donald Trump for the Republican nomination, reports the New York Post.
• “A journalist is attacked and smeared, and the media cheers” – Douglas Murray pays tribute to journalist Andy Ngo in his New York Post column.
• “LAWSUIT: FIRE sues to stop California from forcing professors to teach DEI” – The California Community Colleges’ regulations, which force professors within the California Community College system to espouse controversial views about “diversity, equity, and inclusion” whether they hold them or not, are being challenged by FIRE.
• “Stonewall cuts all Government departments from its list of top 100 employers” – Kemi Badenoch has told Whitehall officials to withdraw from the charity’s diversity scheme amid gender row, reports the Telegraph.
• “The Assaults on our young have reached peak insanity” – When will the assault on young people, from indoctrinating them with harmful trans ideology to injecting them with harmful Covid vaccines, stop, asks HART.
• “And Just Like That, The Brazilian Central Bank Goes LIVE with a CBDC” – Brazil has introduced a CBDC, reports Activist Post.
• “Russian General Suggests U.S. Helped Create COVID-19, May Be Plotting New Pandemic For ‘Global Control’” – Zero Hedge’s Tyler Durden reports on the claims of a Russian General that COVID-19 was created and deployed by the U.S. military and it’s planning another attack.
• “Woke is the enemy of all the arts, not just comedy” – Andrew Doyle in a clip from his recent appearance on the Spiked podcast in which he explains why no one who describes themselves as ‘woke’ has produced anything of any value in any artistic field.

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