- “Study finds Covid vaccination independently associated with Long Covid syndrome” – A new study has found that developing Long Covid appears to be more likely after two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Global excess mortality update” – Swiss Policy Research takes a fresh look at the real numbers and true causes behind global excess mortality.
- “Banned: Book by Dr. Peter McCullough & John Leake” – On Substack, John Leake responds to Amazon’s recent banning of The Courage to Face COVID-19, the best-selling book he co-authored with Dr. Peter McCullough.
- “We sacrificed their childhood at the altar of our choices” – Children should never have had to go through the experience of lockdown, says Dr. David McGrogan for the Brownstone Institute.
- “Top 10 Covid events of the year: Revealing the facts unspoken and unknown” – The Epoch Times has listed the top 10 major Covid-related events that took place in 2023.
- “Mayor Adams says NYPD is bracing for potential anti-Israel disruptions, terrorist actions during New Year’s Eve in Times Square” – The New York City Mayor says there will be a heightened police presence for New Year’s Eve celebrations in Times Square in preparation for potential protests in relation to the Israel-Hamas war, according to the Post Millennial.
- “Prominent Austrian university severs ties with Harvard” – A prestigious Austrian university has severed ties with Harvard over its response to the Israel-Hamas war and the rise of antisemitism on campus, reports the Mail.
- “Claudine Gay, we hardly knew ye” – Claudine Gay will be gone by spring, predicts Daniel Oliver in Taki’s Magazine.
- “Stephen Fry and the rise of woke antisemitism” – The response to Stephen Fry’s Christmas message confirms that Jew hate has returned with a vengeance, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg is ‘most popular Tory backbencher’” – Jacob Rees-Mogg has been crowned the most popular Conservative backbencher in an annual survey by Conservative Home, reports the Telegraph.
- “This attack on Churchill is appalling – and nonsensical” – Walter Reid’s vicious book says Churchill was “malign, cruel, obstructive and selfish” toward India – but its argument doesn’t hold water, writes Andrew Roberts in the Telegraph.
- “Pub boss and Brexit campaigner Tim Martin is handed a knighthood” – Wetherspoons founder and Brexit campaigner Tim Martin is to be knighted in the New Year Honours, reports the Mail.
- “Research finds higher likelihood of extreme snowfall. And: Greening Africa” – In NoTricksZone, P. Gosselin flags new research showing that there is a higher likelihood of extreme snowfall in the French Alps in the coming decades. And Africa is greening.
- “Have we reached peak ESG?” – Ethical capitalism no longer pays the bills, says Ashley Rindsberg in UnHerd.
- “Trans charity insists under-sevens should still go to NHS gender clinic” – Trans charity Mermaids has argued that under-sevens should continue to be referred to the Tavistock, reports the Mail.
- “‘Terf island’ took on trans ideology in schools – and won” – Schools guidance on trans-identified pupils is a significant step forward. But the campaign isn’t over yet, says Mary Harrington in the Telegraph.
- “This gender ideology is a crime against a generation” – It’s a national scandal that hundreds of our young people are being pushed towards irreversible surgery in the name of progressive ideology, writes Julie Bindel in the Mail.
- “BBC feeds viewers a ‘diet of woke bias’ in breach of its own impartiality rules, campaigners say” – The BBC has been accused of feeding viewers “a steady diet of woke bias” as research suggests the broadcaster has failed to uphold its own impartiality standards, reports the Telegraph.
- “Murder Is Easy review: Finger-wagging lecture on colonialism” – The BBC’s new adaption of Murder Is Easy is a finger-wagging lecture on colonialism that treats nostalgia for Agatha Christie’s Britain as a thought crime, says Christopher Stevens in the Mail.
- “Why wokeness really is like fascism” – Wokeness corrodes from the inside out. And the corrosion is spreading, warns Sean Thomas in the Spectator.
- “Is it still a wonderful life?” – The values Frank Capra celebrated seem to be dying out, laments Noel Yaxley in the Critic.
- “Why does everybody lie about social mobility?” – In Aporia, Prof. Peter Saunders challenges the conventional wisdom about social mobility.
- “Stop telling children the world hates them ” – What ought to be possible is for adults – even those who disagree with one another – to behave responsibly when it comes to telling children what the world thinks of them, writes Victoria Smith in the Critic.
- “Did Richard Dawkins’s ‘New Atheists’ spark a Christian revival?” – A new book claims Richard Dawkins, the pioneer of the New Atheism movement, has inadvertently converted people to Christianity. But Theo Hobson in the Spectator is unconvinced.
- “The Southern Poverty Law Centre’s new enemy: Americans who accept biology” – A new Southern Poverty Law Centre document claims to “expose” a vast “anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience network” that is targeting trans people, according to Quillette. What it means is: people who believe biological sex differences are real.
- “Google’s new patent: Using machine learning to identify ‘misinformation’ on social media” – Google has submitted a patent application for a tool that employs AI to identify content deemed to be ‘misinformation’ on social media, according to Reclaim The Net.
- “New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement” – The New York Times has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft alleging copyright infringement, reports the Mail.
- “‘I am woke now, and I can prove it!’” – On X, Darren Grimes has shared a clip from Ricky Gervais’s new comedy special, “pulling the piss out of hypocrite Gary Lineker”.
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latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
A focus on our Geert Wilders and the rise of populism. A great pity the Poles lucked out in their elections, mind;
”As the face of the party he helped found in 2006, Wilders has slowly established himself in the Dutch political scene. For two decades, he has seduced the electorate with his incendiary rhetoric, desperately seeking to curb immigration (mostly of Muslim Moroccans), leave the European Union, and “put the Dutch first.” It seems all too familiar. In this election victory, as in many other moments that punctuated European political history in the last decade, the populist radical-right vote and abstention rate have reached historic highs. This has profound implications for the political balance at the upcoming European elections in June 2024.
Over the past decade, political discontent has been growing in response to mounting economic problems. Trust in the democratic process has begun to fray, and liberal democracies have exposed the frailty of their political landscape with changes in the morphology of their party space, notably in the rise of radical-right populist parties, which are often seen as a protest vote against the mainstream. These parties emerged after waves of radicalization that mobilised opposition to the political establishment and the wide centrist consensus. One would be hard-pressed to pinpoint a region in the world where populism has not been a salient point in political discourse during the last decade.”
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/geert-wilders-and-the-sociology-of-the-populist-right/
Did the Dublin riots signify a change in public feeling, especially as Ireland was hardly an isolated case? Still no word, after all these weeks, on the condition of the little girl, lady and the attacker either, I note. Very strange.
”On the evening of the night of the stabbing, Irish citizens, apparently sick of taking in Muslim migrants who show their thanks by randomly stabbing Irish children and committing other crimes, took to the streets to protest their nation’s immigration policies. Before long, a riot — described as the worst in modern Dublin history — broke out.
This incident marks something new: a western demographic consisting of everyday men and women revolted — not just with words or hashtags, but in actual fact — against the mainstream narrative concerning migrants coming into Europe.
Up until now, here is how things worked: western authorities, the “elites,” opened their nations’ doors to millions of Muslim migrants. They did this by exploiting their citizens’ sense of decency, by making them feel it is their “duty” to provide all these migrants with a good life.
Meanwhile, many of these migrants exhibit Islam’s natural hostility for all things and persons non-Islamic. Wherever there is a significant presence of migrants, crimes, rapes, and general insecurity soar. This is to be expected: the migrants’ Islamic upbringing — which is regularly nurtured by European subsidized mosques — is inherently tribal, and sees in the “other” nothing but walking prey.
Finally, the “guardians” of what western people are allowed to know and talk about — media, politicians, “experts,” and the elites who own and control them — have done everything to conceal these facts: the names and identities of criminals and rapists are generally suppressed; a rise in crimes is blamed on anything and everything — from a lack of “equity” to European “racism” — but the obvious.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/12/was_the_dublin_riot_a_watershed_moment.html
‘Girl (5) injured in Parnell Square incident moved from intensive care
Two other children have already been discharged from hospital following incident which prompted night of rioting in Dublin city centre
The five-year-old girl who was injured outside a Gaelscoil in Dublin city centre last month has left intensive care.
The girl and two other children along with their carer were hurt following the incident at Coláiste Mhuire, Parnell Square, on the afternoon of November 23rd. The two other children, aged five and six, have since been discharged from hospital.
…The girl, who is being treated at Temple Street Children’s Hospital, left the intensive care unit last week and has been moved to a ward.
…On Thursday, a 50-year-old man was charged with the attempted murder of the three children and with causing serious harm to the care worker at Parnell Square last month.
Riad Bouchaker, of no fixed abode, appeared before Judge Brian Smyth at Dublin District Court on Thursday afternoon in relation to the incident.
Mr Bouchaker was also charged with the possession and production of a weapon, a 36cm kitchen knife, to which he replied: “I am a sick person.”’
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2023/12/22/girl-5-injured-in-parnell-square-incident-moved-from-intensive-care/
Thank you so much for providing an update. Without facts people are left to fall prey to circulating rumours and speculation, myself included, because there’s nothing concrete available to contradict what we might be reading on social media. So much for the rumours that the little girl was ”clinically dead” then. She’s obviously improved a great deal if she’s been moved to a ward.
I’m a bit baffled as to why this info wasn’t circulated widely, especially on Twitter, given the stuff that pops up on my feed due to the algorithms and whatnot.
There are a lot of things happening, they can’t all be trending on Twitter. Though it was on Twitter that I heard about that good news reported in the Irish Times. Maybe sometimes good news isn’t as widely reported.
Finally, a knighthood I can agree with!
Sir Tim Martin.
Cheers!
Good on Brexit but his pubs are keen on cashless transactions (they even have an app you can pay through).
He was OK on covid too – the first knighthood for a relative lockdown sceptic? Hope for Mr Toby Young yet… (joke).
https://swprs.org/global-excess-mortality-update/
The Swiss Policy research piece on excess mortality states that COVID is still much to blame for excess deaths based on the presence of SARS-CoV2 in the waste water.
Very sloppy piece of reasoning and writing.
Yes ! What was that all about ! Seems like we’ve got it all wrong according to SPR !
I’m happy to continue thinking of the Swiss Doctor as one of the good guys, but him or her being both anonymous and, as far as I can tell, not supporting his assertions with much besides some charts, it’s hard to take his conclusions very seriously. It would be interesting to see somebody like Norman Fenton review his work.
I always called it ‘long vaccine’ not ‘long covid’
From 100% effective to -10% effective!
“Global excess mortality update”
So it’s in the water then?
Can someone explain what this article is trying say! Don’t quite understand its conclusions?
It is very confused isn’t it – claims to be about excess deaths an then half of the data it uses are just regular mortality data – doesn’t stop them concluding that excess deaths are pretty much all due to Covid. However, regarding the quality of their conclusions, I think we need look no further than the short section at the end where they discuss the drop in births, concluding that the drop in births is due to a decrease in marriages! They are Swiss, so perhaps they do things differently there!
After the piece about the book banned on Amazon, co-authored by Peter McCullough ‘The Courage to face Covid19..’ I checked and found it was in fact available.
Maybe Amazon had some hurdles to clear before restoring the title and the author’s account? Anyway, I’ve bought it, because I feel we need hard copies of the counter-narrative to pass on to future generations. And though I avoid Amazon where possible I ordered it from them to send a clear message that they will lose custom if they bow to government/Establishment pressure.
“Jacob Rees-Mogg has been crowned the most popular Conservative backbencher in an annual survey by Conservative Home, reports the Telegraph.”
I don’t know who else scored well, and the field is pretty weak, but Rees-Mogg said nothing about the covid scam at the time so how can anyone admire the man?