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by Luke Perry
19 November 2021 11:30 PM

  • “Cinema & Co” – Raise funds for Cinema and Co (whose owners refused to comply with the Welsh Parliament’s vaccine passport scheme) due to loss of business for 28 days after being closed by trading standards.
  • “Covid: Stormont ministers vote for Covid passports” – All ministers apart from the DUP’s backed the plan, which is due to be enforced from mid-December, reports BBC News.
  • “Covid vaccine passports ‘will hurt businesses in Scotland without cutting transmission’” – “A significant number of businesses will be hit by the expansion of vaccine passports while there is little evidence they cut transmission or convince people to get jabbed, the Scottish Government has admitted,” reports the Times.
  • “Authoritarian Europe’s slide back into lockdown vindicates the U.K. embrace of freedom” – We were denounced as ‘Plague Island’, but our relatively high vaccination rate has allowed us to learn to live with Covid, argues Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
  • “Durham Cathedral demands Covid passports for Christmas worship” – “Durham Cathedral is the only cathedral in England (so far) to make attendance at a public act of Christmas worship contingent on the production of an NHS Covid pass,” reports Archbishop Cranmer.
  • “Devi Sridhar: gets it wrong. Again!” – Devi Sridhar, member of the Scottish Government’s Covid advisory group, has repeatedly made false and misleading claims about Germany’s handling of the pandemic to argue for vaccine passports, says Citizen Journalist, who fact-check some of her statements.
  • “Austria will come to regret mandatory vaccinations” – “So, Austria’s experiment to persuade more people to get vaccinated by placing the unvaccinated in lockdown didn’t last long. A week, to be precise. From Monday, the entire country will be placed under stay at home orders and other restrictions,” writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
  • “Just how rare are ‘rare’ vaccine injuries?” – “If health professionals are going above and beyond to not link the vaccine with adverse events, how can we be expected to believe that serious adverse reactions are as ‘extremely rare’ as is claimed?” asks Harry Dougherty in TCW.
  • “The Covid cash cow!” –”There is probably much that we will never get to the bottom of related to the pandemic. But one thing is clear, we now know why so many people simply do not want it to end,” writes Roger Watson, who argues that Covid has enabled bad-faith actors to profit from other people’s misery in Unity News Network.
  • “Number of corpses found rotting at home skyrockets during pandemic” – Study examining post-mortems found cases of markedly decomposed bodies increased by 70% after U.K. went into lockdown, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Labour demands to know why Covid procurement rules still in place” – “Labour has written to the Government to query why emergency Covid procurement rules, under which companies were given contracts worth tens or hundreds of millions of pounds without the usual scrutiny or competition, have still not been reversed,” reports the Guardian.
  • “Florida’s DeSantis travels to Brandon to sign bills restricting Covid mandates” – “Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis has signed legislation barring private employers in the state from imposing Covid vaccine mandates on their workers unless generous opt-out provisions are offered,” reports RT.
  • “Bavaria gets tough on Covid with cancellation of Christmas markets” – “Bavaria is to introduce sweeping measures to curb the spread of Covid, including cancelling all Christmas markets and placing limits on household mixing,” reports the Guardian.
  • “Punishments set for U.S. troops who refuse vaccination” – “The U.S. Army has threatened repercussions for soldiers who decline to receive Covid vaccinations, saying that insubordinate troops will be barred from promotions, reenlistment, and a number of special military services,” reports RT.
  • “Covid ‘patient zero’ was Wuhan market vendor, claims new study” – U.S. scientist finds that an influential World Health Organization inquiry had likely misidentified the first known case of Covid, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Another Governor courts unvaccinated cops with relocation offer” – “Tennessee’s Republican Governor is calling on police officers across the U.S. to join the state’s highway patrol to skirt vaccine mandates elsewhere in the country, even offering to assist with moving expenses,” reports RT.
  • “Jordan Peterson: the West has no right to cut poor countries’ pollution” – Academic criticises Government’s ‘potential deceit’ over HS2 on the BBC’s Question Time, reports the Telegraph.
  • “In defence of defending empire” – “Debate, often heated, has for centuries been the way we have advanced knowledge and reached agreed position: thesis, antithesis, synthesis,” writes Robert Tombs in UnHerd.
  • “Imperial War Museum bosses say sorry for woke rap against Churchill” – “According to witnesses, members of the public walked out in disgust during the performance by a youth music group funded by the Arts Council in the Museum’s foyer on November 11th,” reports MailOnline.
  • “Cambridge college makes U-turn over how to define racism” – Downing College forced to rewrite anti-discrimination guidance over concerns it would lead to culture of fear and is racist to white people, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Why the double standards?” – A caller speaks to talkRadio about the mainstream media ignoring cricketer Azeem Rafiq’s past anti-Semitic comments: “You won’t hear that story on the BBC. The mainstream media are so biased and don’t pick up on all sides of racism.”

Dave in London reacts to Azeem Rafiq's anti-Semitic messages sent to another cricketer.

"You won't hear that story on the BBC. The mainstream media are so biased and don't pick up on all sides of racism." pic.twitter.com/mm1bzGxGoJ

— talkRADIO (@talkRADIO) November 18, 2021
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