A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the virus and the vaccines, the ‘climate emergency’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
Read the Daily Sceptic’s parody of Matt Hancock’s pandemic diary. Only the slightest tweak was required to make it read like something scripted by Armando Iannucci.
According to Dr Simon Clarke, who passionately defended the lockdown policy, the rise in Strep A infections (which has already killed six children) may be due to a “lack of mixing in kids”, i.e., the lockdown policy.
Britain will be hammered by a wave of strikes every day in the run-up to Christmas in a new ‘Winter of Discontent’. Rishi Sunak is in office, but not in charge – and the public’s anger is growing by the day.
The Government is poised to water down the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill in response to lobbying by the universities sector in the House of Lords.
Bill Clinton has announced he’s caught Covid, adding how grateful he is to be fully vaccinated and boosted because it would obviously be so much worse if he hadn’t. This has produced a torrent of hilarious memes.
Witless and Unbalanced have warned that Britain could face a “prolonged period” of excess deaths due to the collateral damage caused by the lockdowns. No, really? Who could have possibly predicted that?!?
The demand for an end to the ban on on-shore wind farms is bizarre. As Matt Ridley points out in the Spectator, they’re not banned and the energy they produce is expensive and makes gas more expensive, not less.
Michelle Donelan, the Digital Secretary, has unveiled a new version of the Online Safety Bill today. How much better will free speech be protected in the ‘Donelan compromise’? Let’s take a deep dive.
In this week’s London Calling, the talking points are whether the civil unrest in China is the beginning of the end for Xi, why Matt Hancock did well on I’m a Celeb and our failing efforts to fend off old age.
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