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by Jonathan Barr
5 December 2022 12:43 AM

  • “Matt Hancock says ’Boris Johnson’s dithering sparked winter lockdown’” – The Daily Mail highlights another claim from Hancock’s pandemic diaries. If only Boris had got on with the tier system sooner like the health secretary Matt Hancock wanted, we could have avoided the winter lockdowns
  • “Hancock diaries show Nicola Sturgeon was leaking Cobra decisions” – In a second extract from his pandemic diaries, Hancock accuses Nicola Sturgeon of leaking Cobra decisions and playing “political games” to further the separatist cause, the Scottish Daily Express reports
  • “Matt Hancock’s Covid care home explanation sparks industry outrage” – “Matt Hancock’s memory of events bears no resemblance to the facts,” says Nadra Ahmed, Chairwoman of the National Care Association, quoted in MailOnline   
  • “Britain’s children are still suffering post-lockdown – these five things could help” – “There is a sense that we have moved on from the pandemic,” writes the Telegraph’s Bryony Gordon, “yet again and again we are reminded that for our children, this is just not true”
  • “Keep Covid military vaccine mandate, defence chief says” – U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin wants to keep the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate to protect the health of the troops, the Associated Press reports
  • “Proximal orchestrations” – “The scientists who assured the world that the COVID-19 virus could not have been engineered in a laboratory based their pivotal decision on a single piece of flawed evidence,” says Nicholas Wade in City Journal
  • “China reports two new Covid deaths as some restrictions eased” – China reported two additional deaths from COVID-19 on Sunday according to the Associated Press, as cities slowly ease anti-pandemic restrictions
  • “Gospel truth that passes the lockdown lovers by” – In the Conservative Woman, Julian Mann suggests a spiritual reason for the Western democracies’ embrace of Chinese-style totalitarianism (i.e., lockdowns) – the decline of personal Bible reading
  • “A critique of mass formation theory – Part 1: Are they hypnotised?” – Writing for Left Lockdown Sceptics, Amy Willows and Rusere Shoniwa lay out what may the the psychological mechanisms responsible for the hysteria, strange behaviour and cruelty exhibited in an attempt to control the coronavirus. You can read part 2 here
  • “The World Health Organisation and its holy days of obligation” – At the Brownstone Institute, David Livermore laments the fact that, unlike the calendar of the late medieval peasant, the secular calendar of public health has no space for fun or feasts
  • “Prince William’s Earthshot prize won’t save the planet” – Ross Clark hates “to pour cold water on the Prince of Wales’s big night out in Boston”, he says in the Spectator, “but all the Earthshot prize is doing is reminding the world how laughably far we are from achieving net Zero carbon emissions by 2050”
  • “France ban on short-haul domestic flights with a rail alternative approved by Brussels” – France is banning short haul domestic flights where there is a rail alternative that takes less than two and a half hours, the Telegraph reports
  • “BBC chairman admits broadcaster is ‘fighting against its liberal bias’” – BBC Chairman Richard Sharp has said the broadcaster “does have a liberal bias” but he’s “fighting against it”, MailOnline reports
  • “Why the Rosetta Stone shouldn’t be returned to Egypt” – “The British Museum needs to hold on to this discarded piece of ancient rubbish,” argues Professor David Abulafia in the Spectator
  • “Scotland is not a British colony – and it never has been” – “The SNP’s victimhood act is not only undignified,” writes Mick Hume in Spiked. “It’s also historically illiterate”
  • “A culture of fear has taken over academia and the arts” – “The transition from professional organisations defending all members to only defending right-thinking ones is already underway,” warns Nick Cohen in the Spectator. “And I expect it to accelerate as the cultural revolution gains momentum”
  • “The rise of Archaeologists Anonymous” – “Censorship is driving dissident researchers underground,” says Stone Age Herbalist, an anonymous archaeologist, in UnHerd
  • “The unbearable whiteness of being an academic” – “Why,” asks Ed West, “are so many white people claiming to be black or indigenous?”
  • “The Tories are too weak towards union militants” – The Government’s desperate plea for “altruism” from the RMT, is “a far cry from Thatcher’s pragmatic response to miners”, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph
  • “The Frank Report XLVII” – Frank Haviland’s take on the week gone by in the New Conservative. “If you were thinking of going on-strike don’t bother,” he writes, “there’s hardly anyone left in Britain who actually works for a living”
  • “The public storm that was taking down my name far and wide” – Professor Jo Phoenix, who was driven out of her job at the Open University after she was attacked by trans right activists, tells Andrew Doyle why it’s important that the new Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill grants aggrieved students and academics the right to sue universities if they breach their free speech rights.

'The public storm, that was taking down my name far and wide.'

Professor Jo Phoenix, who was driven out of her job at the Open University after she was attacked by trans right activists, speaks to Andrew Doyle about suing the university. pic.twitter.com/gK81z9Ckhd

— GB News (@GBNEWS) December 4, 2022

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