News Round-Up

• “Hundreds more middle-aged adults dying every month since Covid ended” – An extra 28,000 deaths, or more than 1,000 a week, were logged across the U.K. in the first six months of the year, reports the Mail.
• “Japan approves self-amplifying (saRNA) Covid vaccine” – On Substack, Dr. Meryl Nass celebrates a new vaccine platform that could provide potent defence against infectious diseases and cancers.
• “They profiled citizens according to their degree of compliance” – In the Brownstone Institute, Ramesh Thakur flags the state of Victoria’s Government spending on grading citizens for Covid compliance.
• “Parliament testimony videos from MP Andrew Bridgen’s historic meeting” – The Government tried to disrupt Andrew Bridgen’s ‘For Democracy, Truth and Freedom’ Parliamentary meeting, says Dr. Pierre Kory on Substack. They did not succeed.
• “The data we need from the ONS to prove the Covid vaccines are safe and effective” – On Substack, Profs Norman Fenton and Martin Neil highlight the need for comprehensive data from the ONS to assess the Covid vaccines’ impact on mortality, infection rates and side effects.
• “Survivor bias cuts both ways and can be erroneously used to argue both for and against vaccine safety” – Profs Norman Fenton and Martin Neil explore the concept of survivor bias and its potential impact on studies.
• “Seven arrested in Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands over suspected terrorism plots” – Seven people, including four suspected Hamas members, have been arrested in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands on suspicion of planning attacks on Jewish institutions in Europe, reports Reuters.
• “Pro-Hamas protesters are sanctimonious psychopaths” – The bloodthirsty desires and doctrines motivating intolerable behaviours must be identified and rejected outright, agues Jordan Peterson in the Telegraph.
• “Britain is paying the deadly price for telling the public to ‘protect the NHS’” – Thousands are dying in the U.K. from preventable causes and missed diagnoses. Too few are willing to ask why, writes Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
• “Was Putin’s Q&A session a Kremlin disinformation project?” – It seemed like the voices of angry Russians had suddenly broken through the Kremlin’s censors to embarrass Vladimir Putin at his annual Q&A session, says James Kilner in the Telegraph. But all was not what it seemed.
• “No one wants to talk about Ukraine any more” – Maybe it’s time to urge the Zelenskyy Government to enter talks to bring this depressing war to its depressing conclusion, writes Lionel Shriver in the Spectator.
• “Police officer sacked after abusive ex-boyfriend found never to have existed” – A police officer has been sacked after repeatedly reporting her former boyfriend for assault, only for detectives to dscove he didn’t exist, reports the Telegraph.
• “Tony Blair banned fox hunting after taking £1 million donation, claims Lord Mandelson” – Peter Mandelson says that Tony Blair banned fox hunting after receiving a £1 million donation to an animal rights group, according to the Telegraph.
• “Is Britain’s vegan obsession over? Consumers switch back to meat” – The multi-billion pound bubble surrounding vegan food and fake meat appears to have burst with some vegetarians returning to meat for financial and health reasons, reveals the Mail.
• “Aviva has exposed the rotten truth about ‘diversity’” – Aviva’s CEO has admitted that no ‘white male’ hire is made without her approval. Many would call it discrimination, says Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
• “Students won’t be protected if they call for genocide” – Free speech tsar Arif Ahmed says that “under no circumstances” will inciting violence be protected under new free speech legislation, according to the Telegraph.
• “More predators than trans people, which is why we must protect single-sex spaces” – Equalities minister Kemi Badenoch says men are exploiting loopholes in the law to gain access to women’s lavatories and changing rooms, reports the Telegraph.
• “The secret life of gender clinicians” – Gender clinicians are trained to practise “heavenly deception”, says Eliza Mondegreen in UnHerd.
• “Western civilisation is being destroyed from within by forces we can’t control” – The horrifying truth about woke ideology has finally been revealed. It gives open support to genocide, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
• “Boston Mayor joins other city leaders for ‘no whites’ holiday party” – Boston Mayor Michelle Wu faced backlash over her ‘elected of colour’ party, with her office retracting invites mistakenly sent to white people, according to the Mail.
• “Ex-Facebook diversity chief pleads guilty to stealing $4 million to fund lifestyle” – A former Facebook diversity and inclusion tsar has pleaded guilty to stealing more than £3.1 million from the tech giant to fund her lavish lifestyle, reports the Mail.
• “Intolerance and cowardice behind desire for censorship ” – Public’s Michael Shellenberger discusses the details of the story behind the infamous Tom Cotton “Send in the Troops” op-ed.
• “New York Times intolerant of half the U.S., former opinion editor says” – A former editor at the New York Times says the paper has become intolerant of the views of half the country and no longer trusts its readers enough to present them with alternative opinions, reports the Times.
• “When the New York Times lost its way” – America’s media should do more to equip readers to think for themselves, argues James Bennett in the Economist.
• “‘This is a massacre of thoughts’: The exiled Chinese artist Ai Weiwei on his cancellation” – The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been cancelled – not by the Chinese Communist party this time, but by the ‘free’ West, writes Ian Williams in the Spectator.
• “The New Conservative Christmas message” – In the New Conservative, Roger Watson wryly reflects on the year that was.

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