- “Amanda Pritchard reveals NHS is preparing yearly Covid booster scheme” – Amanda Pritchard said the NHS is already putting plans in place should it be required to deliver a yearly Covid booster vaccine campaign – similar to the annual winter flu jab programme, reports MailOnline.
- “Germany hits panic button – Merkel to follow Austria and lock down 14 million” – Germany is planning on locking down 14 million unvaccinated citizens in a bid to tackle increasing case numbers, reports the Express. In the piece, Toby comments: “Given its history, I hoped Germany would be a bit more inhibited about curtailing the rights of a part of its population on the grounds that they’re dangerous and unclean. But apparently not.”
- “Sturgeon warns Covid passport system may be extended before Christmas” – The First Minister tells Holyrood that her administration will decide next week whether restrictions currently in force should be tightened from December 6th, reports MailOnline.
- “Nicola Sturgeon ‘leaving pubs in the dark’ over vaccine passports extension” – Businesses are in limbo as the First Minister postpones a ket decision until next week, saying she wants to discuss practicalities with those affected, reports the Telegraph.
- “Ireland introduces new coronavirus restrictions including midnight hospitality curfew as country battles fourth wave of infections” – The measures will be implemented from Friday, with Covid passes, already required for indoor hospitality, now necessary at cinemas and theatres, reports Sky News.
- “Evidence for Community Cloth Face Masking to Limit the Spread of SARS‐CoV‑2” – “Of 16 quantitative meta‐analyses, eight were equivocal or critical as to whether evidence supports a public recommendation of masks, and the remaining eight supported a public mask intervention on limited evidence primarily on the basis of the precautionary principle,” write the authors of a new critical review for the CATO Institute.
- “Pfizer Submits Covid Pill for FDA Authorization” – Testing found Pfizer’s pill to be 89% effective at reducing the risk of hospitalisation and death from Covid when taken soon after diagnosis, reports the Wall Street Journal.
- “Are the Scientific Journals Censoring the Science? Part 2” – Sonia Elijah writes on the unprecedented removal of peer-reviewed papers showing efficacy of ivermectin as a Covid treatment and preventative in TrialSite.
- “Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna raking in $1,000 every second from Covid vaccine, research shows” – The top three Covid vaccine makers are making around $65,000 per minute as wealthy nations snap up their products, while plans to offer the jab to poorer nations at a discount have largely fallen through, new research, reported in RT, reveals.
- “The Covid Children’s Crusade” – Against ethics and evidence, public officials push vaccine mandates for kids. John Tierney comments in City Journal.
- “Shock as BBC admits Covid figures error” – A rare treat as a BBC official apologies for an error made while reporting Covid figures, as told in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Europe heads the stampede to medical apartheid” – “While the media engaged in a classic diversionary tactic, they virtually ignored perhaps the most concerning pandemic news out of Western Europe so far,” writes Tom Penn in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “More states sue Biden’s White House over Covid vaccine mandate” – A dozen states have filed a lawsuit against President Joe Biden’s Covid vaccine mandate for healthcare workers, arguing the administration is trying to “federalise public health policy“, reports RT.
- “‘Most vaccinated’ place on earth cancels Christmas” – Amid a surge in Covid cases, Gibraltar has canceled official Christmas events and “strongly” discouraged people from hosting private gatherings for four weeks. Gibraltar’s entire eligible population is vaccinated. RT reports.
- “Portugal makes it illegal for bosses to contact employees outside working hours” – Portugal has made it illegal for bosses to contact their employees outside of working hours in a bid to increase the rights of those working from home due to Covid lockdowns, reports the Express.
- “Why is there lack of concern over burning coal?” – Judged by the benchmarks set by Mr. Sharma and Boris Johnson before the conference, COP26 had failed – thanks to China, writes David Rose in the Mail.
- “The electric revolution will kill off traditional British sports cars” – The end of the road is in sight for small-scale premium car manufacturers given the huge cost of building electric vehicles from scratch, reports the Telegraph.
- “The eco elite won’t admit it, but it’s time we learned to live with climate change” – Global agreements to limit warming have failed. Our best answer now is to invest in adaptation, writes Andrew Lilico in the Telegraph.
- “COP26 and the cynical exploitation of ‘indigenous peoples’” – The West uses indigenous groups as a stick to beat poorer countries that want to industrialise, writes Inaya Folarin Iman in Spiked.
- “I just graduated from a British university. They’re broken” – Higher education in the U.K. is not about broadening the mind, it is about indoctrination and ideological compliance that crushes intellectual development and debate. It needs shaking up, badly, writes Ramsha Afridi in RT.
- “Could Cthulhu swim right?” – “Both shame and status affiliation are the result of a dominant social narrative or national mythos, interweaving deception and truth, controlled (and largely believed) by the top of society,” writes Alexander Adams in Bournbrook Magazine.
- “Amanda in East Sussex says the booster programme is about ‘control and fear’” – A caller tells talkRADIO: “Every single day they are chipping away at our civil liberties and freedom. Where does this end? It ends when we say no more.”
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