- “The Reality Behind the Long Covid causing Damage to Multiple Organs Study” – The Naked Emperor skewers the latest misleading Long Covid study – this one compared hospitalised Covid patients to non-hospitalised controls and found the hospitalised patients were sicker (yes, really).
- “17 years of near-zero trend in September sea ice demolishes claim that more CO2 means less sea ice” – Arctic sea ice failed to nose-dive again this year, undoubtedly disappointing expects who have been anticipating a ‘death-spiral’ decline for ages, says Susan Crockford in WUWT.
- “PM will cash in emissions ‘credit’ to adhere to Net Zero” – According to the Telegraph, Sunak is looking to avoid breaching the U.K.’s strict carbon budgets despite pushing back the ban on selling new petrol cars.
- “On Net Zero, Britain can’t afford to be the moral model to the world” – Political grand-standing comes at too high a price, says Janet Daley in the Telegraph. “Sunak has realised this, Starmer still toys with making people poorer.”
- “Armed Met officers refuse to carry guns after colleague charged with murder of Chris Kaba” – Officers “have had enough and say it’s not worth it anymore” to run the risk of facing charges, a source tells the Telegraph.
- “Islamists are ‘weaponising’ claims of Islamophobia to shut down debate on hijabs, report finds” – Islamists are “weaponising” claims of Islamophobia to shut down debate on head scarves and veils, think tank Policy Exchange has found, according to the Telegraph.
- “I’ve been cancelled for standing up to racial identity politics” –Alka Sehgal Cuthbert writes in Spiked about her recent experiecne being disinvited because her presence would make speakers feel “unsafe”.
- “MPs who believe ‘women have a penis’ will be named and shamed ahead of general election” – A new website will allow voters to instantly find out whether their MP thinks women must be born female, the Telegraph reports.
- “Whitehall wokery won’t be stopped unless we overhaul the Equality Act” – A web of laws and obligations are allowing officials to put diversity before delivery, and it must change, says Fred de Fossard in the Telegraph.
- “Why ‘wokeness’ is doomed to fail” – Nick Cohen reviews Yascha Mounk’s The Identity Trap in the Spectator.
- “EU migration crisis puts Schengen zone ‘in danger’” – The return of border controls to prevent migrant crossings threatens the bloc’s cherished freedom of movement, according to the Telegraph.
- “Gender-critical civil servants’ views compared to ‘Nazism’ in diversity meeting” – Gender-critical civil servants were compared to “Nazis” and the “far-Right” by fellow officials in a meeting discussing diversity, the Telegraph reports.
- “The incredible meltdown of the Center for Antiracist Research” – Professor Ibram X. Kendi’s fantastically funded Centre for Antiracist Research at Boston University is in financial meltdown. Where did all the money go, asks Peter Wood in the Spectator.
- “What if Lucy Letby is not guilty?” – Peter Hitchens, with some reluctance – “I have enough enemies as it is” – queries the evidence in the Mail.
- “England ladies’ angling team wont compete after team picks trans woman” – Members of the squad did not volunteer to participate at the Shore Angling World Championships in Italy in November because trans woman Becky Lee Birtwhistle Hodges was also allowed to apply, according to the Mail.
- “Former NZ PM Ardern Urges United Nations To ‘Crack Down On Free Speech As A Weapon Of War’” – In her latest attack on free speech, Jacinda Ardern declared free speech a virtual “weapon of war”, writes Jonathan Turley at ZeroHedge.
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