News Round-Up

• “The desperation of Olivia Colman’s climate change video” – When you have a surname like Colman you’d think it would be best to avoid appearing in an advertising campaign playing a latex-wearing, greedy fossil fuel executive who puts her own wealth above the good of the planet, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “The climate scaremongers: Luvvies’ C4 show is a series of lies” – Paul Homewood in Conservative Woman is less than impressed by the new Channel 4 series in which various ‘personalities’ urge viewers to do more to tackle climate change.
• “Net Zero fanaticism now means overlooking Assad’s grotesque war crimes” – The Syrian tyrant has been invited to COP28 as if he were just another politician, rather than a man drenched in the blood of his own people, write Tobias Ellwood and Hamish De Bretton-Gordon in the Telegraph.
• “Hollywood hunger strikes won’t save a single Palestinian” – Actress Cynthia Nixon is dramatically calling for a ceasefire. But it’s going to take more than skipping your smoothie, Cynthia, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “BBC presenters accused of sharing ‘toxic and anti-Israel’ content online” – Multiple stars feature in a cache of screenshots sent to broadcaster weeks ago yet many posts still haven’t been deleted, reports the Telegraph.
• “Whatever your view of the Israel-Hamas war, rape is rape. To trivialise it is to diminish ourselves” – This isn’t some ghoulish competition, where any empathy shown to dead Israelis leaves less available for Palestinians, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff in a thinly-veiled rebuke of Owen Jones.
• “Why’s the #MeToo crowd silent on Hamas rape?” – Janice Turner in the Times also takes a swipe at Owen Jones.
• “BBC is too politically correct, say working-class audiences” – A study by Ofcom has found working class viewers miss the days when the BBC was ‘fun’, with its current output being ‘dry’, ‘cringey’ and out of touch, reports the Telegraph.
• “BBC Acknowledges Controversy Over ‘White Privilege’ Following Complaint” – The director of the Free Speech Union, Toby Young, called the BBC’s article about white privilege “woke gobbledegook”, reports the Epoch Times.
• “Get a grip, Nihal” – Working with too many white people harms your mental health claims a BBC presenter? What woke rubbish, says Alka Sehgal Cuthbert in Spiked.
• “The Cyber Threat Intelligence League, Sara-Jayne Terp, and the unbearably idiotic schoolmarms who have been unleashed to censor the internet” – Michael Shellenberger, Alex Gutentag and Matt Taibbi continue their reporting on the ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’ with a new piece on an odious organisation called the Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) League.
• “Ireland needs to talk about immigration” – The elites have maintained a conspiracy of silence following the Dublin knife attack, says Ella Whelan in Spiked.
• “A new NHS trans scandal is now unfolding across the country” – Activist organisations have been allowed to structure policies for many years without challenge, writes Kathleen Stock in the Telegraph.
• “Is the NHS overfunded?” – The NHS spends money like a lottery winner having drunk their way out of a champagne jacuzzi, writes Tom Ed on Substack.
• “Culture Secretary blocks Abu Dhabi fund from seizing Telegraph during investigation” – Lucy Frazer has blocked the sale of the Telegraph and the Spectator to a foreign power, reports the Telegraph.
• “The sword of safetyism” – Safetyism is not about protecting vulnerable people. It is about conquering the Left’s enemies, says Rob Kurzban in Aporia.
• “Royal racism’ hoo-ha shows how wokery hurts the West” – Woo! Shock horror. It’s the latest scandal to rock the royals, and it’s turning into a humongous whodunnit, writes Boris Johnson in his Mail column.
• “Nation In Shock After Gavin Newsom Murdered On Live TV” – The Babylon Bee has a predictably one-sided take on Thursday’s debate between Ron DeSantis and Gavin Newsom.
• “Opinion | Bill Gates: How I Invest My Money in a Warming World” – Rich individuals, companies and countries must ensure green technologies are affordable for everyone, everywhere, writes Bill Gates in the New York Times. He also takes a stab at justifying having a private jet.
• “Nationalist group condemned for Alistair Darling ‘good riddance’ tweet” – A group of Scots Nats whose marches were attended by SNP ministers has sparked outrage after it crowed over the death of Alistair Darling, who fronted the No campaign in 2014, reports the Times.
• “City roads should be ‘ripped out completely’ to fight pollution, says Government adviser” – Dr. Gary Fuller, who reviewed research supporting the Ulez expansion, has suggested turning cities into ‘green spaces’, says the Telegraph.
• “The email that explains our Covid lockdown mistakes” – Rather than focusing support on the most vulnerable people in care homes, we saddled society with damaging restrictions, argues Prof. Sunetra Gupta in the Telegraph.
• “Fears Britain could be hit by own outbreak of ‘mystery’ pneumonia” – Britain could see a similar wave of ‘white lung syndrome’ as that sweeping China and Denmark, according to the Mail.
• “The Hallett Inquiry: Eminence-based medicine Part 6” – Part 6 of Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan’s forensic analysis of the testimony of Dame Angela McLean’s to the Hallett Inquiry on November 23rd.
• “Elon Musk on Who Wants to be a Millionaire” – Amusing mash up of Regis Philbin and Elon Musk.

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