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by Luke Perry
14 December 2021 10:47 PM

  • “Health officials refute Deputy Prime Minister’s incorrect Omicron data” – “U.K. health officials were forced to correct Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab, following interviews on Tuesday during which he twice gave the wrong number of hospitalised Omicron patients, providing wildly inaccurate figures,” reports RT.
  • “A conscientious objector’s view” – “Allow us bodily autonomy and freedom of conscience. If you do not, you forfeit your authority to act on representative democratic principles and you reveal to us your true nature,” says Alexander Adams, who sends a message to Britain’s political establishment in Bournbrook Magazine.
  • “Nearly two years into this pandemic, the economy is still an after-thought” – ‘Plan B’ measures come with a big price tag, but the Government did not consider the consequences on business, writes Kate Andrews in the Telegraph.
  • “Nicola Sturgeon announces new Covid advice for Scotland” – First Minister asks public to keep festive celebrations to a minimum, reports the Guardian.
  • “Scammers are ‘targeting consumers with fake Omicron test kits’” – “Concerned Brits have raised the alarm about an email purportedly from the NHS they have been sent that will likely be used to access bank accounts,” reports MailOnline.
  • “As cancellations start, Scottish firms fear collapse of festive trade” – “Scottish businesses fear that Christmas trade will collapse as consumer confidence drops sharply and Holyrood appears ready to introduce further Covid restrictions,” reports the Times.
  • “Tougher Wales restrictions at Christmas not ruled out” – Welsh Health Minister says she does not want to cancel Christmas but is not ruling anything out, reports BBC News.
  • “Why I love Great Britain” – The freedoms Britain granted the world are the most precious gift of all. We must preserve them, writes Jordan Peterson in the Telegraph.
  • “The Pandemicists must be stopped” – Covid has vastly expanded the ranks of pandemic planners and public health botherers. Unless something is done, these people will destroy all of society in their radical pursuit of a few viruses, writes Eugyppius in his latest Substack update.
  • “The weird pandemic narrative” – “The bizarre confection of panic and lack of lethality that is ‘Omicron’ has essentially laid to rest any rationale for compulsory, mass vaccination,” says Omar Khan in Uncommon Wisdom.
  • “An unvaccinated nurse is better than no nurse at all” – The NHS vaccine mandate could decimate the service. It is akin to a war commander demobilising frontline troops in the middle of a battle, says Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
  • “‘A half truth is a whole lie’: the Omicron variant, cross-reactive immunity, and the manufactured illusion of an unprecedented virus” – The Omicron variant has stirred the pot. Vaccines are failing. Natural immunity doesn’t stop infection and big lies are being told with half truths, writes Julius Ruechel in his personal blog.
  • “Rebels? Those who voted against the Government are the true Conservatives” – Thank God there are people in Parliament who are prepared to take arms against this tsunami of pseudo-scientific scaremongering, writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
  • “Call for action to prevent deaths as U.K. homeless shelters shut their doors” – Covid precautions blamed as charity says number of winter shelter beds has fallen from 2,100 before pandemic to about 950, reports the Guardian.
  • “Antivax attacks coming from ‘radicalised extremists who oppose state’” – Anti-Covid vaccination attacks are coming from “radicalised extremists”, according to a German politician, reports the Express.
  • “Am I detecting a shift at the New York Times?” – One of America’s largest media publications, having previously been enthusiastic and supportive of lockdown measures, is quickly changing its tune to preserve its credibility, writes Jeffrey A. Tucker for the Brownstone Institute.
  • “South Africa’s Omicron Covid outbreaks may already be running out of steam” – Country’s virus death rate now one in 200 – the lowest it has been throughout the pandemic and 10 times lower than last September, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Denmark and Norway rush in stricter Covid measures as cases soar” – “Denmark and Norway have announced stricter Covid measures to battle soaring infection numbers, as authorities said the new Omicron variant was spreading fast,” reports the Guardian.
  • “California brings back indoor mask mandate as Covid cases rise” – California’s mask mandate will return Wednesday and last at least a month, reports the Mail.
  • “It’s time we championed the family unit rather than divisive American identity politics” – “The immense social value of stable family units has been largely overlooked in a country that is grossly unequal in a regional sense. Meanwhile, protected characteristics such as race, ethnicity, religious belief, sexual orientation and gender reassignment have dominated equality debates,” argues Rakib Ehsan in Mail Plus.
  • “The good and bad news about the Online Safety Bill” – The Online Safety Bill does have its surprising benefits, but also its drawbacks, such as allowing social media companies to target speech which is perfectly legal, but could be considered offensive, writes Toby in the Spectator.
  • “New free speech law to protect against wokery and cancel culture” – “Freedom of speech is to be enshrined in a new British bill of rights to protect against wokery, political correctness and the advance of European-style privacy laws,” reports the Telegraph.
  • “The variant-response cycle” – In light of the Commons vote this evening which rubber stamped the Government’s ‘Plan B’ restrictions drafted in to tackle the Omicron variant, Toby speaks to TalkRadio about the precedent this sets for the future.

MPs will vote on Plan B measures this Tuesday.

The Free Speech Union's Toby Young says "The really frightening thing is every time there's a new variant, however mild, the Government will do exactly the same thing if we let them get away with it now."@JuliaHB1 | @toadmeister pic.twitter.com/2nIQw7cjt4

— talkRADIO (@talkRADIO) December 13, 2021
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