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by Richard Eldred
5 February 2024 12:46 AM

  • “BBC employee who called Jewish people ‘Nazis’ no longer works at corporation” – A BBC scheduler who referred to Jews as “Nazis” and white people as “parasites” no longer works at the corporation, reveals the Telegraph.
  • “BBC journalists ‘liked’ antisemitic tweets despite promise to crack down on bias” – BBC journalists endorsed antisemitic conspiracy theories and statements that Israel is “pure evil”, despite the corporation promising to crack down on anti-Israeli bias, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Mike Freer and the Islamist assault on democracy” – Islamist extremists have attacked, murdered and menaced parliamentarians. Where’s the anger? asks Tom Slater in Spiked.
  • “mRNA COVID-19 vaccines caused more deaths than saved: study” – mRNA COVID-19 vaccines cause more deaths than they save lives, according to a new study whose researchers called for a “global moratorium” on the shots, reports the Epoch Times.
  • “A cup of tea with Lady Hallett and Jamie Dawson KC before the Inquiry leaves Scotland, home of the brave” – Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan assess what we have learned from the Covid Inquiry’s shift to Scotland.
  • “The SNP’s miserable autocracy” – The Covid Inquiry has exposed the rot that was at the heart of Sturgeon’s Scotland, says Tim Black in Spiked.
  • “Another flawed Covid pregnancy study?” – On Substack, Prof. Norman Fenton and Mr. Law find plenty of holes in yet another flawed study published in a top journal, this time arguing that pregnant women should have the Covid vaccination.
  • “Florida 22nd Statewide Grand Jury releases first report” – The Florida 22nd Statewide Grand Jury has released its first interim report, concluding that masks and lockdowns were harmful and ineffective.
  • “‘Forty Bibby Stockholm migrants converting to Christianity’ after Clapham chemical attack suspect did the same” – Forty asylum seekers on the Bibby Stockholm barge are converting to Christianity amid growing fears that migrants are claiming to have changed their religion in order to stay in the country, reports LBC.
  • “Too many churches are facilitating bogus asylum claims. This must stop” – Far too many asylum seekers are bogus and using our laws against us, says Suella Braverman in the Telegraph.
  • “BBC journalist paid to help at least 15 Somali criminals fight deportation from Britain” – A BBC editor was paid as an expert witness to help at least 15 Somalian criminals fight deportation and remain in the U.K., reports the Telegraph.
  • “Uncontrolled immigration is the Tories’ fault – and it will cost them the election” – Far from cutting the number of migrants, the Tories nodded through 745,000 legally approved migrants in 2022 alone, says Trevor Kavanagh in the Sun.
  • “Fed-up Tory activists ‘are on strike and turning to Reform U.K.’” – Tory activists are going “on strike”, Rishi Sunak was warned, as a survey suggested that half could vote for Reform U.K., according to the Mail.
  • “Don’t be fooled by the Blob, Brexit is already paying dividends” – Controlling our own trade policy means we are able to negotiate the right deals for Britain, says Peter Lilley in the Telegraph.
  • “Our enemies are prepared for the fight. It’s time to rearm to avoid World War Three” – We could be on the brink of global conflict. We need to get serious if we are to have any chance of defending ourselves, warns Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
  • “Screens in schools are harming our children” – Evidence that books, paper and pens are more effective learning tools than screens and tablets is reverberating globally, says Sophie Winkleman in Politics Home.
  • “Role reversal” – On Substack, Edrith flags the case of Newcastle United fan Linzi Smith to highlight the need for organisations like the Free Speech Union to defend individuals against being punished for expressing their lawful beliefs.
  • “How Britain learned to love the ban” – You can take our disposable vapes, Mr. Sunak, but you’ll never take our freedom, says Joseph Dinnage in CapX.
  • “Is Europe facing another fall of Constantinople?” – This isn’t the first time the continent has faced a geopolitical crisis and survived, writes Peter Franklin in UnHerd.
  • “Another Net Zero retreat? Tories ditch ‘boiler tax’” – The Energy Secretary is planning to scrap the so-called boiler tax, reports the Times.
  • “Wood pellets aren’t CO2 neutral, emit more than coal… double of natural gas” – Wood pellets are often viewed as an alternative, climate-friendly energy source, especially for heating. But an analysis shows this is not the case at all, says P. Gosselin in WUWT.
  • “Greta Thunberg is a ruffian masquerading as a latter-day saint” – Since Hamas’s invasion of and massacre in Israel, the fate of trees seems to have gone by the wayside for Thunberg and her crew, writes Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
  • “University researchers feel powerless to take personal climate action” – Why are academics yielding to pressure to travel frequently, if every flight brings us closer to a lethal climate tipping point? asks Eric Worrall in WUWT.
  • “I was cancelled at my own dinner table – that’s how toxic the arts world can be” – Countless people in the arts face ostracism, harassment and the loss of their livelihoods for dissenting from the newly entrenched moralistic beliefs that have become dogma in the sector, says choreographer Rosie Kay in the Standard.
  • “Microsoft CEO says the company is working to address election ‘disinformation and misinformation’” – Big Tech is taking a bigger role in monitoring and moderating online speech as a glut of elections approach, according to Reclaim The Net.
  • “The world would be a better place without Facebook” – The first reason social media platforms succeed is this: they are scarily, dangerously addictive, writes Sean Thomas in the Spectator.
  • “‘What I got wrong about Trump’” – In UnHerd, the American conservative thinker Andrew Sullivan revisits his earlier views about Donald Trump.
  • “‘Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Oscars’” – An alternative version of the Oscars has surfaced on X, with Nicola Sturgeon picking up the Best Actress gong for her testimony to the COVID-19 Inquiry.

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— Alistair MacRae (@alimacno) February 4, 2024

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