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by Luke Perry
29 December 2021 11:42 PM

  • “The Government’s scientific advisers are finally losing their grip” – “It seemed at one time that our weak and malleable Prime Minister would forever be at the grip of SAGE and their scary graphs. However, events in the Christmas and New Year period reveal that the Government’s scientific advisers are finally losing their grip,” argues William Parker in Bournbrook Magazine.
  • “This New Year could mark the beginning of the end for Covid restrictions” – Omicron is spreading so fast that many of its consequences are already baked in. The Government has chosen to tough it out, writes Andrew Lilico in the Telegraph.
  • “Adnams brewery boss says sector lost 50% of Christmas trade” – Dark months are ahead for the hospitality industry, the Chief Executive of Adnams says, reports BBC News.
  • “Ministers must be ready to cut the Covid isolation period” – The prospect of living with Covid as we do other respiratory viruses is far closer than many might imagine, says Telegraph View.
  • “How likely is reinfection following Covid recovery?” – “We have looked at the published evidence and can conclude based on the existing body of evidence, that reinfections are very rare, if at all, and based on typically a few instances with questionable confirmation of an actual case of re-infection,” writes Paul Elias Alexander for the Brownstone Institute.
  • “Duke University orders staff to get booster by February 1st or face the boot” – “Duke joins a raft of elite U.S. colleges which are pressing ahead with booster requirements, including Harvard, Yale, Notre Dame, and Dartmouth,” reports MailOnline.
  • “Too many have cashed in on our Covid fear – and nothing will be ‘normal’ again” – From mindsets to material things, the virus is now the core around which the rest of life is bent to fit – and that changing seems unlikely, writes Charlotte Lytton in the Telegraph.
  • “NFL has created ‘two-class system’ for vaccinated and unvaccinated, star fumes” – Aaron Rodgers has accused the NFL of a ‘two-class system’ when it comes to distinguishing between vaccinated and unvaccinated players, reports RT.
  • “America’s least-vaccinated states led in-store holiday shopping” – “American shoppers flocked to brick-and-mortar stores this holiday season, with especially strong sales in several states where the rate of full vaccinations against the Covid virus are less than 60%,” reports Reuters.
  • “Covid isolation rules may be relaxed to stop Australia’s pingdemic” – “The Australian Prime Minister is considering easing Covid rules after surging cases of the Omicron variant overwhelmed testing sites and put thousands into isolation, stifling businesses and disrupting summer holiday travel,” reports the Times.
  • “Haxey Hood 2022 cancelled for second year due to Covid” – Organisers cancel the ancient face-off which sees rival Scottish villagers locked in a mass scrum for hours, reports BBC News.
  • “Why it’s time to embrace ‘Plan Living With Covid’” – “There’s those who favour a light touch approach and those who want imposed restraint. Perhaps now is the moment we can look beyond these arguments, toward a near future where Covid lives with us and we with it,” writes Dr. Chris Smith in the Telegraph.
  • “Fauci urges Americans to have a ‘vaccinated, home-related’ New Year’s” – “Anthony Fauci said Wednesday that he ‘strongly recommends’ against going to large New Year’s Eve gatherings this year as the highly contagious Omicron variant causes massive case surges nationwide,” reports MailOnline.
  • “Why are Joe and Jill Biden masking up on the beach when they’re alone?” – “Joe and Jill Biden have worn masks to walk their dog alone on a beach while on their Delaware vacation. The Bidens, who are booster vaccinated, covered their faces for no apparent reason,” reports MailOnline.
  • “Is the West becoming pagan again?” – The successor to Christian civilisation may resemble the present-day iconoclasm known as woken, writes Christopher Caldwell in the New York Times.
  • “The left doesn’t own minority voters” – Unless left-wing parties drop their woke dogmas, they’ll struggle in the increasingly diverse West, says Joel Kotkin in Spiked.
  • “How the woke’s war on words took over 2021” – Language has been the most important terrain on which the culture war has been fought. But in 2021, the policing of words gained unprecedented momentum to reach nonsensical levels, says Frank Furedi in RT.
  • “Seven ways in which the left is now the right” – “One major way it’s distinct from those other strands is that it has adopted many ideas that are fundamentally right-wing or conservative,” writes Dr. Noah Carl in his latest Substack update.
  • “The greatest curtailment of liberty” – Toby appears on the Sketch Notes On podcast to talk about the Government’s relentless campaign of fear to ‘nudge’ the public into complying with lockdown restrictions.

"The UK Govt pumped out a lot of scary propaganda that led to people becoming quite frightened…

They were proved more willing to tolerate what Lord Sumption described as 'the greatest curtailment of liberty in the history of these islands."

Podcast: https://t.co/owdVbIvZvi pic.twitter.com/UIFgdKwoRS

— lucy johnston (@thelucyjohnston) December 29, 2021
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