News Round-Up

• “Study finds Covid vaccination independently associated with Long Covid syndrome” – A new study has found that developing Long Covid appears to be more likely after two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, reports the Epoch Times.
• “Global excess mortality update” – Swiss Policy Research takes a fresh look at the real numbers and true causes behind global excess mortality.
• “Banned: Book by Dr. Peter McCullough & John Leake” – On Substack, John Leake responds to Amazon’s recent banning of The Courage to Face COVID-19, the best-selling book he co-authored with Dr. Peter McCullough.
• “We sacrificed their childhood at the altar of our choices” – Children should never have had to go through the experience of lockdown, says Dr. David McGrogan for the Brownstone Institute.
• “Top 10 Covid events of the year: Revealing the facts unspoken and unknown” – The Epoch Times has listed the top 10 major Covid-related events that took place in 2023.
• “Mayor Adams says NYPD is bracing for potential anti-Israel disruptions, terrorist actions during New Year’s Eve in Times Square” – The New York City Mayor says there will be a heightened police presence for New Year’s Eve celebrations in Times Square in preparation for potential protests in relation to the Israel-Hamas war, according to the Post Millennial.
• “Prominent Austrian university severs ties with Harvard” – A prestigious Austrian university has severed ties with Harvard over its response to the Israel-Hamas war and the rise of antisemitism on campus, reports the Mail.
• “Claudine Gay, we hardly knew ye” – Claudine Gay will be gone by spring, predicts Daniel Oliver in Taki’s Magazine.
• “Stephen Fry and the rise of woke antisemitism” – The response to Stephen Fry’s Christmas message confirms that Jew hate has returned with a vengeance, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg is ‘most popular Tory backbencher’” – Jacob Rees-Mogg has been crowned the most popular Conservative backbencher in an annual survey by Conservative Home, reports the Telegraph.
• “This attack on Churchill is appalling – and nonsensical” – Walter Reid’s vicious book says Churchill was “malign, cruel, obstructive and selfish” toward India – but its argument doesn’t hold water, writes Andrew Roberts in the Telegraph.
• “Pub boss and Brexit campaigner Tim Martin is handed a knighthood” – Wetherspoons founder and Brexit campaigner Tim Martin is to be knighted in the New Year Honours, reports the Mail.
• “Research finds higher likelihood of extreme snowfall. And: Greening Africa” – In NoTricksZone, P. Gosselin flags new research showing that there is a higher likelihood of extreme snowfall in the French Alps in the coming decades. And Africa is greening.
• “Have we reached peak ESG?” – Ethical capitalism no longer pays the bills, says Ashley Rindsberg in UnHerd.
• “Trans charity insists under-sevens should still go to NHS gender clinic” – Trans charity Mermaids has argued that under-sevens should continue to be referred to the Tavistock, reports the Mail.
• “‘Terf island’ took on trans ideology in schools – and won” – Schools guidance on trans-identified pupils is a significant step forward. But the campaign isn’t over yet, says Mary Harrington in the Telegraph.
• “This gender ideology is a crime against a generation” – It’s a national scandal that hundreds of our young people are being pushed towards irreversible surgery in the name of progressive ideology, writes Julie Bindel in the Mail.
• “BBC feeds viewers a ‘diet of woke bias’ in breach of its own impartiality rules, campaigners say” – The BBC has been accused of feeding viewers “a steady diet of woke bias” as research suggests the broadcaster has failed to uphold its own impartiality standards, reports the Telegraph.
• “Murder Is Easy review: Finger-wagging lecture on colonialism” – The BBC’s new adaption of Murder Is Easy is a finger-wagging lecture on colonialism that treats nostalgia for Agatha Christie’s Britain as a thought crime, says Christopher Stevens in the Mail.
• “Why wokeness really is like fascism” – Wokeness corrodes from the inside out. And the corrosion is spreading, warns Sean Thomas in the Spectator.
• “Is it still a wonderful life?” – The values Frank Capra celebrated seem to be dying out, laments Noel Yaxley in the Critic.
• “Why does everybody lie about social mobility?” – In Aporia, Prof. Peter Saunders challenges the conventional wisdom about social mobility.
• “Stop telling children the world hates them ” – What ought to be possible is for adults – even those who disagree with one another – to behave responsibly when it comes to telling children what the world thinks of them, writes Victoria Smith in the Critic.
• “Did Richard Dawkins’s ‘New Atheists’ spark a Christian revival?” – A new book claims Richard Dawkins, the pioneer of the New Atheism movement, has inadvertently converted people to Christianity. But Theo Hobson in the Spectator is unconvinced.
• “The Southern Poverty Law Centre’s new enemy: Americans who accept biology” – A new Southern Poverty Law Centre document claims to “expose” a vast “anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience network” that is targeting trans people, according to Quillette. What it means is: people who believe biological sex differences are real.
• “Google’s new patent: Using machine learning to identify ‘misinformation’ on social media” – Google has submitted a patent application for a tool that employs AI to identify content deemed to be ‘misinformation’ on social media, according to Reclaim The Net.
• “New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement” – The New York Times has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft alleging copyright infringement, reports the Mail.
• “‘I am woke now, and I can prove it!’” – On X, Darren Grimes has shared a clip from Ricky Gervais’s new comedy special, “pulling the piss out of hypocrite Gary Lineker”.

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