News Round-Up

• “Too many people worked from home during pandemic, says Sunak” – Too many people ended up working from home during the Covid pandemic, Rishi Sunak has told the Covid Inquiry, according to the Telegraph.
• “Return of Covid lockdown measures backed by extraordinary number of people” – New polling has suggested that around a fifth of the British public would back the return of Covid measures, reports GB News.
• “Final batch of Pfizer documents released shows FDA knew safety monitoring system was ‘not sufficient’” – The FDA knew when it licensed Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine that its safety monitoring system was not sufficient to detect heart problems associated with the shot, reveals the Epoch Times.
• “Why does the WHO make false claims regarding proposals to seize states’ sovereignty?” – In the Brownstone Institute, Drs. David Bell and Thi Thuy Van Dinh raise the alarm about the WHO’s proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations.
• “Hamas is only winning in the minds of idiotic young Westerners” – The pernicious impact of TikTok activism, as well as prejudice among Gen-Z, has been throwing fuel to a decades-long propaganda campaign against Israel, writes Richard Kemp in the Telegraph.
• “I’ll have a chat if Boris Johnson gets in touch, says Nigel Farage” – Nigel Farage has hinted that he could join the Conservatives if there was a change of leader, reports the Telegraph.
• “BBC bosses ‘talk to Gary Lineker’ after star slams Rwanda plan” – BBC chiefs are talking to Gary Lineker after he taunted Tory MPs following criticism for his blasting of the Government’s Rwanda plan, says the Mail.
• “BBC faces ‘catastrophic loss of trust’ without action against Lineker” – The BBC has been warned it faces a “catastrophic loss of trust” if it fails to take action against Gary Lineker over a series of social media posts in which he mocked Tory MPs, reports the Telegraph.
• “Gary Lineker, like a Right-wing Trojan horse, is destroying the BBC from within” – The Beeb’s survival hinges on its ability to report and portray without prejudice – including convincing its own staff to play along, says Ella Whelan in the Telegraph.
• “How HR is draining the economy” – Once regarded a corporate backwater, human resources has grown into a deleteriously influential force, argues Mattie Brignal in the Telegraph.
• “A radical Right-wing trio” – A new generation of radicals in France see their political mission as nothing less than saving European civilisation, writes Gavin Mortimer in the Critic.
• “COP28 summit ‘on verge of failure’ after UAE abandons fossil fuel pledge” – The COP28 summit is on the “verge of complete failure” after the UAE ditched a commitment to phase out fossil fuels, reports the Telegraph.
• “JSO activists told they can continue ‘peaceful’ protests before trial” – Just Stop Oil activists, who took part in a slow march across Waterloo Bridge, have been told by a judge that they can continue taking part in “peaceful” protests before their 2025 trial, according to the Mail.
• “Heather Mills blames ‘corporate greed’ as vegan food company collapses” – Heather Mills has announced her vegan food company has gone into administration and blamed Brexit and “corporate greed” for its demise, reports the Mirror.
• “Vivek Ramaswamy: The climate change agenda is a hoax” – Wide Awake Media has pulled a clip of U.S. presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy not holding back in calling out the climate scam during NewsNation’s fourth GOP primary debate.
• “Al Gore’s tiresome crusade: So long, so wrong” – From the late 1980s until today, Al Gore is singing the same tune, says Robert Bradley Jr. in Master Resource.
• “Britain’s arbitrary authoritarianism” – Hate-speech laws in Britain are making private conversations a crime, even when there’s no one around to be offended, warns Laurie Wastell in the Critic.
• “Democracy in decay” – In TCW, John Wycliffe introduces a new series on the decay of ‘representative democracy’ in the globalist age and the need for more ‘direct democracy’ to redress the balance between the people and the establishment elites.
• “The treason of the intellectuals” – Anyone who harbours a naive belief in the power of higher education to instil morality has not studied the history of German universities in the Third Reich, say Niall Ferguson in the Free Press.
• “Student settles in discrimination case with Council for Psychotherapy” – James Esses has reached a settlement with the U.K. Council for Psychotherapy after he was thrown off his masters course and lost his membership of the council for expressing gender-critical views, reports the Mail.
• “Scotland’s wind turbines have been secretly using fossil fuels” – A report by Straight Arrow News, shared on X, reveals that dozens of giant wind turbines in Scotland use diesel generators to function.

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