- “The Covid bereaved have overplayed their hand” – Covid victims’ groups are disrupting a ruinously expensive probe they themselves demanded, says Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “The Hallett Inquiry’s obsession with the ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ scheme” – Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson focus on the controversy surrounding Rishi Sunak’s ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ scheme in the Covid Inquiry.
- “Medicare death data proves the Covid vaccines are killing people. No more doubts. The debate is over” – While typical vaccines show a decline in daily deaths post-inoculation, the Covid vaccine demonstrates a continuous increase for up to 365 days, writes Steve Kirsch on Substack.
- “Flu season of 2019-2020 was one of worst in decades” – Data metrics show that the 2019-2020 ‘flu season’ was not normal or typical, says Bill Rice Jr. on Substack. So why don’t virus experts recognise what might have been obvious evidence of early Covid?
- “Is antibiotic resistance causing China’s pneumonia outbreak?” – Doctors fear the surge in pneumonia cases in children in China may have been caused by antibiotic resistance, reports the Mail.
- “My email conversation with Sarah Caul at the U.K. ONS” – We are about to find out whether the Office for National Statistics is protecting Big Pharma or the people of the U.K., says Steve Kirsch on Substack.
- “Finding the courage to speak out” – On Substack, Laura Dodsworth features a guest essay by “Britain’s most outspoken headmaster” Mike Fairclough.
- “Will killing Yahya Sinwar end the war in Gaza?” – When Yahya Sinwar, the terrorist leader who orchestrated the October 7th massacre, meets his end, it will provide the Israeli’s with a useful ‘offramp’ out of the conflict, suggests Sean Rayment in the Spectator.
- “Harvard cancels congressman who mocked Harvard cancellations” – It would be one thing if Harvard President Claudine Gay’s commitment to free speech were the real deal, but the truth is she doesn’t believe a word she said in Washington, says Sohrab Ahmari in the American Conservative.
- “Liz Magill’s hypocrisy on free speech” – Penn President Liz Magill, alongside counterparts at MIT and Harvard, faces condemnation not for their many free speech abuses but for their one accurate articulation of it, writes Heather Mac Donald in City Journal.
- “Harvard President accused of plagiarism” – On Substack, Igor Chudov reacts to revelations that Harvard President Claudine Gay plagiarised part of her own PhD dissertation.
- “‘This is definitely plagiarism’” – Claudine Gay copied entire paragraphs from others’ academic work and claimed them as her own, says Aaron Sibarium in the Washington Free Beacon.
- “Harvard’s Claudine Gay uses ‘free speech’ as a defense after a history of squelching it” – Connor Murnane in the New York Post argues that Claudine Gay’s professed love of free speech hasn’t been much in evidence since her appointment as President of Harvard.
- “Resignations won’t fix America’s universities” – In U.S. universities, antisemitism extends from students to administrators, warns Jacob Howland in UnHerd.
- “It’s no surprise Palestine marches have drained the Met’s coffers” – If the authorities had consistently arrested those promoting terrorism in recent decades, the London Mayor wouldn’t be seeking £240 million to contain the problem now, argues Jake Wallis Simons in the Spectator.
- “The things I never thought possible – until October 7th” – In the Free Press, Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner reflects on the many illusions shattered by Hamas’s pogrom and the tsunami of antisemitism it has inspired.
- “Only 1% of voters believe Rwanda Bill will stop the boats, poll shows” – A poll by YouGov has revealed that only 1% of voters believe that Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda Bill will stop illegal migrants arriving on small boats, says the Telegraph.
- “Labour could send illegal migrants abroad to be processed, says Starmer” – Keir Starmer has announced that, under a Labour government, small boat migrants could be “diverted” abroad to have their asylum applications decided, according to the Telegraph.
- “Nigel Farage slams ITV’s Kevin Lygo over ‘unpleasantries’” – Nigel Farage has blasted ITV boss Kevin Lygo and warned him not to “go to war” with him, claiming he now knows there was a conspiracy at the broadcaster to “stitch me up” on I’m a Celeb, reports the Mail.
- “Nigel Farage and the hysteria of the Remoaners” – Nigel Farage’s turn on I’m a Celeb has both baffled and terrified the elites, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Is this the end for Zelenskyy?” – The Ukrainian President is facing calls for regime change, writes Thomas Fazi in UnHerd.
- “Blasphemy laws have returned to Denmark” – Even fanatical Quran-burners should have their right to freedom of expression upheld, argues Andrew Doyle in UnHerd.
- “Prince Harry ordered to pay the publisher of the Mail almost £50,000” – Prince Harry has been ordered to pay the publisher of the Mail almost £50,000 after he lost the latest stage of a legal battle, according to the Mail.
- “The retired NHS doctors earning more than the Prime Minister” – Public sector pensions are now so generous that a handful of retired doctors and teachers are being paid a higher income than the Prime Minister, reveals the Telegraph.
- “So much for world-beating NHS! U.K. doesn’t make top 20 for safest care” – A new report has revealed that health services in Estonia, Israel and Austria provide safer care than Britain, reports the Mail.
- “Heather Mills blames ‘litany of lies’ as vegan empire collapses” – Heather Mills has blamed the “gaslighting” meat industry for the collapse of her vegan food empire, says the Telegraph.
- “We must be free to call this man a man” – The Green Party’s Melissa Poulton is clearly not a woman. Why can’t we say so, asks Lauren Smith in Spiked.
- “Enoch Burke must stay behind bars over Christmas, court rules” – An Irish teacher, who refused to refer to a transitioning transgender student as ‘they’ rather than ‘he’ in May last year, is set to spend Christmas in prison, reports the Mail.
- “It’s time the BBC put Have I Got News for You out of its misery” – Have I Got News for You was once the sharpest satire on TV. Now it’s predictable liberal-Left pap, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “How to decolonise Britain” – Britain must escape the bind of the American Empire, argues Aris Roussinos in UnHerd.
- “Harry and Meghan’s Archewell Foundation suffers $11 million donations drop” – The Sussexes’ charity has seen an alarming dive in its finances, says the Mail.
- “Student who sued professional body for psychotherapists after he was thrown off his course for expressing gender critical views reaches settlement in discrimination case” – James Esses has won a major victory for free speech, persuading the U.K. Council for Psychotherapy to issue a statement saying psychotherapists with gender critical views will not be penalised in future, reports the Mail.
- “Are we ruled by midwits?” – Noah Carl tries to work out just how stupid MPs are in Aporia.
- “This is the single most important exchange of the inquiry” – On X, Prof. Karol Sikora has isolated a clip from the Covid Inquiry, where Rishi Sunak says a QALY-analysis revealed the cost of lockdown would be greater than the benefits, only to be promptly shut down by Hugo Keith KC, who has no idea what QALY stands for.
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