- “I tackled a SAGE Covid modeller on Twitter and it was quite the revelation” – Why does SAGE not tell us the probability of its gloomy Covid ‘scenarios’? asks Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
- “Underlying conditions in 85% of Covid deaths in Ireland” – “More than six out of every seven people who died with Covid in Ireland since the beginning of the pandemic were suffering from a serious underlying medical condition,” reports the Sunday Times.
- “More Covid restrictions inevitable, London mayor warns” – “London’s mayor has said he sees no way to avoid more Covid restrictions in the British capital amid a spike in Omicron infections, fearing without them the NHS would be brought to the brink of collapse,” reports RT.
- “Covid in Wales: Drakeford denies rules ‘gambling’ with livelihoods” – First Minister unable to say if there will be help to pay staff wages when clubs shut to curb Covid, reports BBC News.
- “We oldies had our moment – we cannot ask the young to lockdown again now” – It’s one thing to close schools when no one is protected, but would be wrong to do it again now, writes Paul Nuki in the Telegraph.
- “Another lockdown will only fuel the cancer crisis” – “One of the biggest mistakes made in previous lockdowns was to neglect non-Covid healthcare, cancer especially. As we prepare for an Omicron wave, might we be about to make the same mistake?” asks Professor Gordon Wishart in the Spectator.
- “Scotland to receive an extra £220 million from Treasury” – The extra Covid funding follows discussions between the devolved nations and Chancellor Rishi Sunak, reports BBC News.
- “I won’t take another test – and I bet I’m not the only one” – “Another Christmas locked up, with our young children getting no access to their doting grandparents, and vice versa, is almost an unbearable thought,” says an anonymous writer, who gives his reasons for not wishing to take any more Covid tests in the Sunday Times.
- “Sadiq Khan is ‘playing politics’ after London major incident statement” – “Sadiq Khan was last night accused of ‘playing politics’ with the Covid crisis by announcing a ‘major incident’ in London in a bid to ‘bounce’ Boris Johnson into ordering further restrictions,” reports the Mail on Sunday.
- “Are we overhyping the threat of Omicron?” – Demands for harsher restrictions are far too premature, write Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson in Spiked.
- “We know that lockdown is a social and economic disaster. Please, Boris – don’t do it again” – Why give in to the same combination of flesh-creeping forecasts and hair-raising headlines? Here’s six reasons why, hopefully, we might not, writes Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Venues can’t get compensation until full impact of Omicron is seen, says Scottish Office Minister Iain Stewart” – “Significant compensation has yet not been offered to the hospitality industry because the full impact of the Omicron variant remains unknown, a U.K. Government minister has claimed,” reports the Sunday Times.
- “Dutch shopkeepers say Christmas lockdown has left them ‘broken’” – ‘Everyone will go shopping in Belgium and Germany,’ retailers warn as Covid closure begins, reports the Guardian.
- “Emails reveal Fauci’s effort to ‘smear’ anti-lockdown scientists” – “Newly released emails show Anthony Fauci and his boss at the U.S. National Institutes of Health wanted to conduct a ‘quick and devastating’ take-down of health experts who proposed a lockdown-free Covid control strategy,” reports RT.
- “Fauci says face masks will always have to be worn on planes now” – Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday said that he disagreed with the CEO of Southwest airlines, Gary Kelly, who argued on Wednesday that face masks on planes were not important, reports the Mail.
- “England hit by another Ashes blow with tougher Covid regulations for next two Tests” – Haircuts, autographs and mixing in crowded areas banned as Cricket Australia reacts to rising cases in Melbourne and Sydney, reports the Telegraph.
- “Melbourne man who was confined to room and used bucket as a toilet highlights challenges for some Covid patients” – “A man who was confined to his room at his Melbourne share-house and forced to go to the toilet in a bucket after being diagnosed with Covid has prompted calls for better awareness of support available for people isolating during the pandemic,” reports the Guardian.
- “Sydney and Melbourne ‘mini-lockdown’ as restaurant cancellations soar” – “In the absence of Government intervention, and with bans on the unvaccinated being lifted, huge numbers are putting themselves into mini-lockdown by cancelling restaurant bookings,” reports the Mail Australia.
- “The dystopian future of housing” – Affluent progressives want us all to live in tiny, cramped apartments. If you object, they’ll call you racist, writes Roslyn Fuller in Spiked.
- “U.S. Air Force embraces gender pronouns” – “The U.S. Air Force has authorized the use of gender pronouns in electronic signature boxes, further embracing the controversial woke lexicon that other branches of Government were criticized for adopting earlier this year,” reports RT.
- “Education is ransomed, not a right” – Liz Cole speaks to Talkradio about her concern that the Government is using the threat of school closures to try and vaccinate Britain’s children.
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