News Round-Up

• “Fury as comic Guz Khan is given job of hosting the BBC’s Have I Got News For You despite string of antisemitic remarks” – The BBC is facing criticism after giving comic Guz Khan the plum job of hosting Have I Got News For You, despite a string of anti-Israel tweets accusing the Jewish state of “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing”, reports the Mail.
• “Nine year-old Israeli hostage thought she had been in captivity for a year” – Emily Hand believed she was held hostage by Hamas for a year and now only speaks in a whisper after her release, according to the Telegraph.
• “Kemi Badenoch praises Israel for keeping to international law” – Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch has said Israel should be “applauded” for “taking great pains to stay within the confines of the law”, reports the Mail.
• “What’s behind China’s mysterious wave of childhood pneumonia?” – Scientists expected a surge in respiratory illnesses in China after the population was released from lockdown, says Gemma Conroy in Nature. So probably not a dangerous new virus, then.
• “Fears swine flu could be spreading under the radar” – Swine flu could be silently spreading in Britain, experts fear, as officials scramble to contain a potential crisis, reports the Mail. In case you’ve been missing the fear porn.
• “Matt Hancock knew Tier 3 restrictions would not work, Covid Inquiry hears” – The Covid Inquiry has heard that Matt Hancock knew Tier 3 restrictions would not work when he imposed them on Greater Manchester, says the Telegraph.
• “What was in Matt Hancock’s missing messages?” – Britain came tantalisingly close to avoiding lockdown in March 2020. Would it have been better if we had, asks Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
• “The Hallett Inquiry: Eminence-based medicine Part Three” – On Substack, Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan present the third in a series of posts focussing on the evidence given to the Covid Inquiry by the Chief Scientific Advisor Prof. Dame Angela McLean. They’re less than impressed.
• “Top U.S. health official says pandemic could have started with one man” – A retired high-ranking health official has revealed that a Wuhan scientist, who was secretly working on a Covid vaccine months before the pandemic broke out, could have been the cause of the global crisis and then been murdered for it, reports the Mail.
• “Dr. Kadlec admits covering up the COVID-19 origins” – On Substack, Dr. Robert W. Malone highlights a recent Sky News Australia interview in which Dr. Robert Kadlec admits that he directly assisted in the Fauci and Collins cover-up of the origin of Covid.
• “China covered up the origins of Covid. It’s time the Inquiry asked why” – Beijing’s lies denied the world a chance to stop the spread of Covid, costing millions of lives. Why isn’t the Hallett Inquiry looking into this, asks Matt Ridley in the Telegraph.
• “Mother battling Long Covid wants to end her life in Switzerland” – Kelly Louise Smith-May, 39, from Gloucestershire, is trying to raise £10,000 so she can travel to an assisted dying facility in Switzerland after suffering complications from a Covid infection in 2021, reports the Mail.
• “Working from home – Money and gas bills for free!” – Town Halls across Britain have been paying the utility bills of staff who can’t be bothered to turn up at the office, reveals Richard Littlejohn in the Mail.
• “L’etat, c’est Pfizer” – On Substack, Alex Berenson gives an update on his lawsuit against the White House and Pfizer officials.
• “The people’s letter to the World Health Organisation” – On Substack, Rebekah Barnett highlights Stand Up Now Australia’s call to action, urging Australians to reject the proposed amendments to the WHO’s International Health Regulations by signing ‘The People’s Letter’ before December 1st.
• “I’m a Celeb accused of ‘dirty tricks’ to limit Nigel Farage’s airtime” – Nigel Farage appears to be featuring less and less on I’m a Celeb and his supporters believe the left-leaning producers are doing it deliberately, says the Mail.
• “New study: Natural CO₂ emissions nearly six times higher than man-made sources” – Analysis of CO₂ residence times, which refer to the length of time it stays in the atmosphere, suggests that 65% – 96.5% of the CO₂ concentration increase since 1958 is natural, reports Climate Change Dispatch.
• “House buyers in Scotland may be forced to install heat pumps within two years of purchase” – Scots may be forced to rip out their gas boilers and replace them with heat pumps within two years of buying a home, says the Telegraph.
• “Britain is at risk of becoming a nation of green ghost towns” – Heavy-handed regulation is accelerating a downturn in commercial property, warns Ben Marlow in the Telegraph.
• “The common sense majority is being cowed into silence by activist zealots” – Small groups are being allowed to impose their dogmatic views on climate change and minorities on all of us, says Philip Johnston in the Telegraph.
• “Bristol University to strip slaver trader Edward Colston’s emblem from its logo” – The University of Bristol is to remove the dolphin emblem of Edward Colston from its logo, reports Sky News.
• “Hey, regulator, leave those teachers alone” – In the Critic, Rev. Dr. Bernard Randall, who was sacked by a Christian school for encouraging pupils to question LGBTQ+ dogma in the classroom, takes a stand against authoritarian tolerance.
• “Force all businesses to embrace ESG, urges New Labour think tank” – All businesses should be forced to embrace the environmental, social and governance movement, New Labour’s favourite think tank has argued, according to the Telegraph. Trust Labour to be behind the curve.
• “The OpenAI soap opera is a lesson in why greed is good” – The ChatGPT creator’s radical experiment in corporate governance has unambiguously failed, says Ben Wright in the Telegraph.
• “Trans women banned from competing against biological women in another sport after cricket clamped down” – The Angling Trust, which is the governing body for recreational fishing, has decided to ban transwomen from competing with women, reports GB News.
• “Doctors forced to tick ‘penis or vagina’ form as ‘nonsense’ trans row erupts” – Doctors are being asked to tick a box saying whether patients have a penis or vagina – not whether they’re men or women – under a new NHS medical form being rolled out at some hospitals, according to GB News.
• “‘Anti-racist’ doctors would put social justice above medical expertise” – A working group affiliated with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada believes medical training should focus more on social justice and anti-racism than “medical expertise”, writes Michael Higgins in the National Post.
• “Fury as library shows signs by pro-trans group who heckled J.K. Rowling” – Gender critical feminists are in uproar after a library displayed pro-trans placards from an activist group which heckled J.K. Rowling during a women’s rights conference, says the Mail.
• “The fight for the future of publishing” – Ideological fanatics have crippled the major publishing houses. But new publishers are rising up to take the risks they won’t, writes Alex Perez in the Free Press.
• “Blair’s children: The rise of the globalist sinecure class” – In TCW, John Wycliffe questions the motivation behind the U.K. Government’s decision to spend £40 million promoting LGBTQ+ rights around the world.
• “‘Disrespectful’ health and safety warning tags put on graves in Norfolk village” – Yellow health and safety warning tags placed on graves in a village churchyard have been described as “disrespectful” by local residents, reports the Telegraph.
• “Pity Justin Trudeau, whose failed premiership is coming to a crashing end” – Justin Trudeau’s political descent mirrors that of other ‘progressive’ leaders in recent times, notably New Zealand’s Jacinda Arden, says David Collins in the Telegraph.
• “The moral cowardice of the managerial elites” – In Spiked, Brendan O’Neill gives his take on why Leo Varadkar failed to make a full-throated condemnation of the monsters of Hamas.
• “Politicians have created a multicultural monster beyond control. Who gets the blame? We do” – Politicians are branding recent riots in Dublin as violently ‘far-Right’ – but it’s mass migration that presents the real danger, writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
• “After the Dublin riot, the free-speech crackdown” – The Irish Government is using last week’s unrest to promote its draconian hate-crime laws, says Ian O’Doherty in Spiked.
• “Leo Varadkar’s Ireland is flirting with a new form of totalitarianism” – Now the whole world can see that Ireland is poised to pass one of the most draconian pieces of legislation in modern times, writes Eilis O’Hanlon in the Telegraph.
• “Silencing the Irish to save them from themselves ” – Any Irish person who has a critical thought about mass migration better keep their mouth shut and not write, tweet or say anything about it on TikTok, or face prison, warns Rod Dreher in the European Conservative.
• “U.S. senator criticises Ireland’s Hate Speech Bill as international scrutiny mounts” – U.S. Senator James David Vance has criticised Ireland’s proposed hate speech legislation as international scrutiny around the law mounts, according Gript.
• “‘We are restricting freedom but we’re doing it for the common good’” – On a video posted on X, Ireland’s Green Party Sen. Pauline O’Reilly attempts to justify Ireland’s draconian hate speech bill.

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