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News Round-Up

by Ian Macleod
25 April 2023 12:26 AM

  • “Young people at risk of disease as concerning numbers miss out on life-saving vaccines” – Uptake of adolescent vaccines offered to young people in school year nine are yet to return to pre-pandemic levels, according to the U.K. Health Security Agency.
  • “Chicago must rehire, pay back wages to workers punished over COVID-19 vaccination mandate: Judge” – Then Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot implemented a COVID-19 vaccination mandate for city employees in October of 2021, reports Fox News.
  • “The disturbing truth about ‘safe’ vaccines for mothers-to-be” – In TCW, Alex Kriel and Dr. David Bell analyse Pfizer data published under an FOI request and uncover red flags relating to fertility and safety in pregnancy.
  • “Chinese censorship is quietly rewriting the COVID-19 story” – Under Government pressure, Chinese scientists have retracted studies and withheld or deleted data. The censorship has stymied efforts to understand the virus, write Mara Hvistendahl and Benjamin Mueller in the New York Times.
  • “New JCVI advice for high risk 0-4s” – HART Group responds to the latest vaccine advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation: “This product should under no circumstances be recommended for children.”
  • “How does Cochrane normally handle wide confidence intervals?” – Prof. Vinay Prasad reckons the Cochrane Review Editor-in-Chief has caved to pressure from mask zealots. He elaborates with a Substack post that explains a recent pre-print he co-authored.
  • “Arcturus already makes up one in 40 new Covid cases” – The variant, thought to be the most infectious yet, is spreading rapidly in India. Health chiefs have now detected 135 cases in the U.K., according to MailOnline.
  • “Climate protesters gather in Parliament Square as fossil fuel deadline passes” – Four days of activism led by Extinction Rebellion fail to elicit pledge from Government to ban new oil and gas projects, reports the Guardian.
  • “‘Be afraid Australia’: Climate change the ‘holy writ’” – Australian Sky News host Chris Kenny highlights parts of the Defence Strategic Review that should be “deeply worrying”.
  • “Why are we allowing solar panels to swallow up our farmland?” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark challenges the wisdom of covering the countryside in solar panels.
  • “The inhumanity of the green agenda” – The ‘sustainability’ regime is impoverishing the world, argues Joel Kotkin in Spiked.
  • “Vandals spray ‘gas-guzzling’ vehicles with ‘this machine kills kids’ slogan” – Protesters daub SUVs in wealthy part of Bristol with phrases to shame “climate criminal” owners, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Rishi Sunak pledges to protect women’s rights” – The Prime Minister pledges his support for MPs Miriam Cates and Rosie Duffield, who joined forces across the political divide in the battle to defend single-sex spaces, reports the Express.
  • “Oxford students call for feminist Kathleen Stock to be no-platformed at Union over trans views” – University’s LGBTQ+ society says it’s “appalled” the “transphobic” academic has been invited to share her views on gender identity theory, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Tucker Carlson out at Fox News” – Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News, after reigning over the network as one of its most beloved hosts for nearly a decade, reports DailyMail.com.
  • “Was Tucker Carlson getting too big for his boots?” – Gossip Columnist Steerpike explores the reasons for Tucker Carlson’s abrupt Fox News departure in the Spectator.
  • “CNN anchor furious after being fired” – Don Lemon has hit out at the network after his firing, which came after accusations of misogyny and misbehaviour, reports the BBC.
  • “Media Contagion” – Latter-day journalism is helping to realise its own false narratives, says Steve Salerno in Quillette.
  • “The media needs urgent and drastic reform” – Whatever the reason, it is abundantly clear that the media has failed its mission. It must be reformed, immediately and from the ground up, says Thorsteinn Siglaugsson via Substack.
  • “Why is Netflix treating the Boston bombers as victims?” – The woke elites’ pity for radical Islamists is just nauseating now, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
  • “Nigel Farage warns ‘the Remainers are back in charge’ after Raab resignation debacle” – Dominic Raab’s resignation and cabinet reshuffle means there are almost equal numbers of 2016 Remainers as Brexiteers, according to the Express.
  • “Keir Starmer signals end of Diane Abbott’s Labour career over ‘anti-Semitic’ comments” – Former Shadow Home Secretary faces calls to resign over “appalling” remarks as Labour figures insist there can be no “hierarchy of racism”, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Bud Light suffers ‘staggering’ 17% sales plunge amid boycott” – The beer brand has experienced a major decline in business following a marketing tie-up with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, reports the New York Post.
  • “Antifa members arrested after allegedly attacking protestors outside of ‘family-friendly’ drag show” – On Sunday, three members of Antifa were arrested outside of a Fort Worth, Texas family-friendly drag show after allegedly attacking protestors of the event, reports the PostMillennial.
  • “Senior official at Arts Council England taking the organisation to an employment tribunal” – Watch Denise Fahmy explain to Andrew Doyle on GB News how she was “harassed and victimised” due to gender-critical beliefs.

'He felt it was an anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ organisation.'@DeniseFahmy explains how she was 'harassed and victimised' due to gender-critical beliefs.

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— GB News (@GBNEWS) April 23, 2023

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