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by Will Jones
18 December 2022 1:07 AM

  • “NHS bosses tell hospitals to discharge as many patients as possible ahead of ‘extreme disruption’ caused by ambulance crew strikes next week” – Staff in England are due to walk out for two days on December 21st and 28th amid an ongoing pay dispute, the Mail reports.
  • “Governments have learnt that fear works – and that is truly terrifying” – We have returned to the world of Galileo vs the Vatican – scientific dissidents are again silenced and ostracised for their opinions, writes Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
  • “Andrew Bridgen MP, a brave voice in the vaccine wilderness” – Kathy Gyngell in TCW on the MP’s recent speech in Parliament and the disgraceful lack of press coverage.
  • “The SBF Scandal: The Players and the Money” – Writing in Brownstone, Jeffrey Tucker says that building off the success of Bill Gates, Sam Bankman-Fried and his many associates clearly saw philanthropy as the path to influence, power and protection.
  • “Scientific paper preprint sites censor submissions” – Norman Fenton and Martin Neil write that pre-print sites medRxiv (pronounced ‘med archive’) and arXiv (‘archive’) consistently reject papers that challenge the ‘official’ Covid narrative.
  • “What Paris Agreement? Coal Consumption Hit a Record 8 billion tons in 2022” – According to the IEA, coal use will drop as soon as European renewables start displacing coal, says Eric Worrall in WUWT.
  • “Law to curb Just Stop Oil protests ‘a sledgehammer to crack a nut’, say ex-police chiefs” – Legislation going through Parliament would need officers to monitor people 24/7, overstretching resources, ministers are warned, the Telegraph reports.
  • “Inside Sadiq Khan’s Ulez cash machine” – London zone’s annual fines could exceed council car parking penalties nationwide, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Amy Gallagher: One Woman’s Fightback Against NHS Wokery” – Frank Haviland in the European Conservative writes that Gallagher was told that the ideal of treating people on the basis of their character, rather than the colour of their skin, was an “outdated” notion which “could not be tolerated”.
  • “Irreverend Live with Rod Dreher” – Get your tickets for the live London event on February 4th with Revs Tom, Jamie and Daniel and special guest Rod Dreher.
  • “Peers ponder new definition of ‘woman’ given in Cambridge Dictionary” – The updated definition of “woman” by the Cambridge Dictionary has raised “more questions than it answers”, a group of peers has decided, the Times reports.
  • “What Blair promised in the 1990s was sounder than anything Tories would dare say now” – Politics has lurched to the Left in the past 25 years, and Covid, the 2008 crash, social media and the Right’s loss of self-belief are to blame, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
  • “Jacinda Ardern’s hate speech clampdown will turn New Zealand into a ‘nanny state’, say opponents” – The toothy tyrant is moving to shield religious groups from being insulted or abused, the Telegraph reports.
  • “Scotland must rebel against this oppressive gender ideology” – It’s been a pretty bad week for the women of Scotland, as Nicola Sturgeon doubles down on the pending legislation that would permit men to self-identify as women , writes Julie Bindel in the Spectator.
  • “Why we should take the Twitter Files seriously” – The files have revealed just how many former members of the FBI and other U.S. Government agencies were embedded in Twitter, says Iain Macwhirter in the Spectator.
  • “Cabinet Office scraps ‘gender inclusion’ workshops after complaints from civil servants” – It is alleged that rights of women and lesbians were “overridden” in the workshops, where “beliefs” were “presented as fact”, the Telegraph reports.
  • “Why I feel deeply uneasy at William’s treatment of Lady Susan – and the way she’s being sent for ‘re-education’” – Sarah Vine in the Mail says the Prince of Wales rarely puts a foot wrong, but “his treatment of his godmother when this whole thing first blew up a few weeks ago was disappointing to say the least”.
  • “This time last year, a bunch of scientists, activists and journalists tried to bounce a heavily vaccinated population into another lockdown” – Christopher Snowdon tweets a day-by day reminder of how it happened.

This time last year, a bunch of scientists, activists and journalists tried to bounce a heavily vaccinated population into another lockdown. Here's a day-by day reminder of how it happened. 🧵

— Christopher Snowdon 🇺🇦 (@cjsnowdon) December 7, 2022

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