News Round-Up

• “The possibility Covid is man-made is not a ‘divisive’ issue – the world needs to know” – If COVID-19 was engineered in a Chinese lab, failure to act stops us preparing for a devastating outbreak in the future, warns Sarah Knapton in the Telegraph.
• “FDA shuts down enquiries about DNA contamination in Covid vaccines” – The recent findings of DNA fragments in the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines has led many to question why the FDA has failed to sound the alarm, writes Dr. Maryanne Demasi on Substack.
• “The Hallett Inquiry – Eminence-based medicine Part Four” – On Substack, Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan present the fourth in a series of posts focussing on the evidence given to the Covid Inquiry by the Chief Scientific Advisor Prof. Dame Angela McLean.
• “Proving evil” – In the Critic, Laura Dodsworth gives her reaction to a screening of Bearing Witness, a compilation by the IDF of raw footage from the October 7th Hamas attacks on Israel. It was very different from Owen Jones’s.
• “The problem with Tommy Robinson’s arrest” – The police have far too much power to clamp down on protest and assembly, says Mark Birbeck in Spiked.
• “Israel-Premier Tech cyclists to be issued with blank training kit due to safety concerns after Israel-Hamas war” – Chris Froome’s Israel-Premier Tech is set to introduce new ‘safety measures’ in light of the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, including a blank training kit for riders, according to Cycling Weekly. 
• “Gigi Hadid posts grovelling apology after deleting Instagram post” – According to the Mail, American model Gigi Hadid has backtracked after sharing claims on Instagram that Israel is “the only country in the world that keeps children as prisoners of war”, a post she illustrated with a boy who went on a stabbing rampage in Jerusalem.
• “Sunak doesn’t realise the trouble he’s in on immigration” – Among 2019 Tories, immigration and asylum is currently the number one issue by 11 clear points, ahead of the economy, writes Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
• “France could be on the brink of civil war” – For decades, French governments have avoided confronting migrant crime and disorder. It is now reaching a tipping point, says Anne-Elisabeth Moutet in the Telegraph.
• “Europe in open revolt” – Geert Wilders’s landslide victory in the Netherlands has shocked the chattering class. It shouldn’t have, writes Oliver Wiseman in the Free Press.
• “‘Bedlam’ erupts in London as thousands of Albanians block cars to ‘celebrate independence day’” – Thousands of Albanians have descended on the streets of London, launching fireworks and throwing bottles as they celebrated their independence day, according to GB News.
• “Barclays closes branch – and tells customers to use van in graveyard” – Barclays customers in Hove will have to do their in-person banking from a van in a local graveyard, as the bank closes its last branch in the area, reports the Telegraph.
• “Rishi Sunak to cut down on council tree fellings ahead of COP28” – Residents must be consulted before authorities chop down trees in their areas as part of a new pro-environment drive unveiled by Rishi Sunak, says the Telegraph.
• “What you could earn for switching off appliances as households get cash rebates for first time this winter” – The Government will pay households to cut electricity use by turning off washing machines, dishwashers, ovens, TVs and even lights during the evening peak, says the Mail.
• “Cooking oil won’t help the aviation industry reach Net Zero” – Using waste plant material to generate energy makes sense from a waste disposal perspective, but how much is actually available, asks Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “Pensioners are owed a lockdown thank you. It’s time to scrap Net Zero” – The money saved from scrapping Net Zero could be used to fund the triple lock, giving our elderly the support they deserve, argues Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “Volkswagen to reduce headcount at ‘no longer competitive’ VW brand” – Volkswagen’s brand chief Thomas Schaefer has warned that high costs and low productivity are making its cars uncompetitive, according to Reuters.
• “Two men and a baby” – In the New Conservative, schoolboy Jack Watson is disturbed by a new children’s book that claims men can get pregnant.
• “BBC accused of escalating Elgin Marbles crisis by referring to them by their Greek name” – The BBC have begun referring to the Elgin Marbles as the ‘Parthenon Marbles’ during coverage of the ongoing diplomatic feud between the U.K. and Greece, according to GB News.
• “Dylan Mulvaney named in Forbes’s ‘30 Under 30’ list – despite Bud Light fiasco” – Trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney has been named on Forbes’s list of ‘30 Under 30’, despite his disastrous advertising partnership with Bud Light, reports the Mail.
• “Why is Doctor Who lecturing us about pronouns?” – In Doctor Who, the muddy, physical human reality of two sexes is increasingly presented as some sort of oppressive trap, writes Malcolm Clark in Spiked.
• “Is the mainstream press beginning to turn on Bill Gates? ” – Bill Gates, who once could do no wrong, has had numerous disparaging articles written about him in recent weeks, observes the Naked Emperor on Substack.
• “In continued defence of ‘effective altruism’” – On Substack, Dr. Scott Alexander has compiled a list of reasons to be grateful for ‘effective altruism’.
• “Why the managers are not great” – On Substack, Eugyppius explores the primary pathologies of managerial society.
• “Hotel bans mince pies from Christmas menu after saying customers don’t want them anymore” – A Scottish hotel has banned mince pies to reduce the amount of food that is thrown away every year, says the Scottish Daily Express.
• “‘During [Ireland’s] oppression, we still maintained our invisibility cloak of white privilege’” – Gript has posted a video on X featuring Irish politicians discussing “white privilege” and the necessity of racial quotas, with one recalling the “very dull, white, pasty Ireland” that he grew up in before mass migration.
• “Elon Musk tells advertisers to “go f**k” themselves” – Elon Musk has made plain his view of the widespread advertiser boycott of X during an interview at the New York Times DealBook Summit.

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