- “Paul Offit Debunks Florida Surgeon General’s Anti-Vax Warning” – “It is hard to believe that Dr. Ladapo actually issued that statement,” said the FDA vaccine adviser, reports MedPage Today.
- “Dr. Paul Offit MD, Vaccine Propagandist” – Dr. Robert Malone artfully debunks the debunking.
- “How the Case Against Andrew Wakefield Was Fixed – In Eight Steps – A 21st Century Medical Controversy” – On Euripides’s Substack watch the new video examining the role of the BMJ in bringing down Dr. Andrew Wakefield and his Lancet vaccine article.
- “Good riddance to Chris Skidmore – China’s useful idiot” – While he burdened the U.K. with his Net Zero nonsense, Beijing used coal energy to power ahead, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “Chris Skidmore’s hissy-fit by-election” – Did the ex-Tory MP really quit because Sunak’s delayed election got in the way of his career plans to bank all that green gold, asks Steerpike in the Spectator.
- “Private buyers slam the brakes on electric cars as sales slump” – Individuals bought 71,984 of the vehicles last year – 23% of the total of 314,687. That’s down by 10 percentage points in just one year: in 2022 they purchased 88,910 – 33% of the total, says the Mail.
- “TCW New Year Reads: The downfall of St. David Attenborough” – On TCW, Margaret Ashworth reviews Susan Crockford’s 2022 book Fallen Icon: Sir David Attenborough and the Walrus Deception.
- “There is a way to make doctors’ pay competitive – but the BMA won’t like it” – The NHS is one of the U.K.’s last socialist relics – there is no real market in healthcare, argues Kate Andrews in the Telegraph.
- “To stop NHS doctors from going to Australia, bring Australian healthcare here” – Our system has become a global humiliation, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph. Why do we still refuse to learn from countries with better pay and outcomes?
- “Examining Academic Selection and the Influence of Grammar Schools on Society” – On the Aporia podcast, Peter Hitchens champions grammar schools as essential for social mobility and intellectual development, particularly for the working class.
- “Petition to strip Post Office ex-chief exec of her CBE passes 730,000” – The Mail reports that Paula Vennells has faced renewed calls to give back the CBE this week – after the Post Office denied there were any problems with a faulty accounting system that led to sub-postmasters being prosecuted.
- “Bank worker wins £490K after unfair dismissal for using the N-word” – Carl Borg-Neal was awarded almost £500,000 in damages, meaning that added to Lloyds’s legal costs and tax, the bank has a bill of nearly £1 million, reports the Mail.
- “Britain grants asylum more than most European countries” – Asylum approval rates have soared to 75% in the year ending September 2023, up from 31% in 2018, analysis of official data shows, as reported in the Mail.
- “Voters want a real revolutionary to stop the boats – and it’s not Nigel Farage” – There is a massive gap in the market for someone to create a movement or party that would detonate a metaphorical bomb in the system, argues James Frayne in the Telegraph.
- “Organisers of Palestine protests could pay towards policing costs” – Organisers of pro-Palestine marches could be forced to help pay for the “great amount of police resource” used to keep protests under control, according to a new report noted in the Mail.
- “Defence Secretary’s daughter dropped university module over anti-Israeli comments” – Tabytha Shapps said she did not feel safe as a Jewish student amid ‘antisemitic’ protests and comments at the University of Leeds, the Telegraph reports.
- “Sadiq Khan refuses to use new laws to stop London Tube strike” – Even though the Mayor of London could have avoided misery for millions, he instead bowed to the Rail, Maritime and Transport union, says the Mail.
- “Education charity tells governors to use ‘correct’ pronouns when addressing trans pupils” – The guidance, released in November, directly contradicts that given by the Government, according to the Telegraph.
- “NHS asks patients to choose from 12 genders, 10 sexual preferences and 159 religions” – Some registering with the online portal before they attend appointments have said the questions are bizarre, confusing and intrusive, reports the Telegraph.
- “Civil servant given warning after ‘inappropriately’ saying there are two sides to the trans debate” – A civil servant was told by a Whitehall investigator that it was inappropriate to say there are two sides to the trans debate, reports the Telegraph.
- “How a Stabbing Changed France” – Christopher Caldwell in Compact Magazine says the stabbing at Crépol has changed French attitudes towards everything.
- “Dozens of MPs oppose Abu Dhabi takeover of the Telegraph” – Frontbenchers and Cabinet ministers are among 73 to express concerns as Ofcom reviews the sale, the Telegraph reports.
- “‘Absolute farce’: Retired policeman is slapped with a £130 fine for helping police catch Sainsbury’s shoplifter… while the thief gets off entirely scot-free!” – A retired police officer described the criminal justice system as “broken” yesterday after he was fined for pursuing a shoplifter in his car – while the offender escaped prosecution entirely, reports the Mail.
- “Claudine Gay and the mafia of mediocrity” – The DEI agenda lends itself to corruption, argues Ayaan Hirsi Ali in UnHerd.
- “Is the lesson of the Covid disaster that we should give its architects more power?” – Watch Tucker Carlson interview Bret Weinstein on the WHO’s worrying plans for the next ‘pandemic’.
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