News Round-Up

“Get ready for Covid this Christmas! Experts warn rise in virus hospitalisations comes at worst possible time” – A rise in Covid hospitalisations has come at the worst possible time, alarmist scientists have warned, as the NHS is already being crippled by record backlogs, strikes and winter pressures, the Mail reports.
“Plea for strikers to call off walkouts as NHS faces meltdown” – Hospital trusts declare critical incidents as unions and Government start last-ditch talks, the Telegraph reports.
“Government to sue Mone-linked PPE firm for £122m” – PPE Medpro won contracts to supply PPE after being recommended by then Tory peer Baroness Mone, reports BBC News.
“CDC admits lockdowns, mask mandates and school closures may be fuelling Strep A outbreak in the U.S.” – In a statement to the Mail, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that Covid mitigation measures like school closures and masking caused an immunity gap.
“The New York Times, after deciding that lockdowns are authoritarian and bad when China does them, is now mildly terrified as Xi Jinping reopens and infections rise” – You can take the New York Times out of lockdown, but you can’t take the lockdowns out of the New York Times, says Eugyppius.
“The Other Lab in Wuhan: The German-Chinese ‘Laboratory for Virus Research’” – There’s another infectious diseases lab in Wuhan, the German-Chinese Joint Laboratory of Infection and Immunity, says Robert Kogon in Brownstone.
“German-Chinese Lab in Wuhan at the Epicentre of the SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak” – Christian Drosten was strangely very insistent on burying the ‘lab origin’ theory, notes Igor Chudov.
“The truth about Covid McCarthyism” – The elites’ blacklisting of lockdown dissenters was shameful and self-destructive, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
“A Global Proclamation” – Dr. Robert Malone with a new declaration on medical freedom and fundamental rights from doctors around the world.
“Paediatric jabs in Japan: third time is a harm” – Guy Gin with an update about vaccinations in Japan.
“‘Silent majority’ of car industry is concerned about electric vehicles” – A “silent majority” of car companies is concerned that electric vehicles will not alone be able to end reliance on fossil fuels, according to Toyota chief Akio Toyoda, the Telegraph reports.
“Government’s hydrogen boiler plan is unrealistic, warn MPs” – MPs on the parliamentary Science and Technology Committee say the gas is likely to play a limited role in the future energy system, given the practical challenges of producing and handling the gas cleanly at large scale, the Telegraph reports.
“Twitter Files bombshell as emails show even chief censor feared the FBI was breaking the law helping U.S. intelligence engage in domestic operations: Yoel Roth was ‘uncomfortable’ being grilled over ‘state propaganda’ on the app’” – Journalist Matt Taibbi, who released the first batch of internal files about the Hunter saga earlier in December, posted emails showing the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force wanted info, the Mail reports.
“FBI Agent Elvis Chan Gave Twitter Execs Top Secret Clearance in Advance of 2020 Election” – The latest ‘Twitter Files’ show FBI Agent Elvis Chan arrange for Top Secret security clearance to be granted to Twitter executives for the purpose of facilitating the censorship of suspected misinformation in advance of the 2020 election.
“Rwanda asylum policy is lawful, High Court rules” – The decision is a major victory for the Government after months of uncertainty over the scheme’s legality, but the coming appeals mean there is still a long way to go, the Telegraph reports.
“Migration topping one million each year set to be ‘new norm’ for decades to come” – A leading think tank says Government should highlight benefits of people coming to work legally while cracking down on small boat crossings, reports the Telegraph.
“Time’s up! Chief Twit Elon Musk is ordered to step down as head of Twitter by 57.5% of voters in his own poll: More than 17million votes cast in 12 hours – but will he listen?” – Elon Musk might be on the way out as head of Twitter after nearly 60% of his followers voted for him to be sacked in a poll of 17 million, the Mail reports.
“Can Jeremy Clarkson’s critics take a joke?” – The clamour for Clarkson’s head is now a far graver insult to decency and liberty than the thing Clarkson himself wrote in the Sun, says Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
“The BBC’s insult to women” – Its list of the year’s most inspiring women is full of identitarian no-marks and men, says Lauren Smith in Spiked.
“The jab saved lives and money? What utter nonsense” – Dr. Roger Watson in TCW rips apart a new paper claiming the Covid vaccines saved 3.3 million American lives.
“America’s child trans explosion in charts: Gender dysphoria rates and puberty blocker prescriptions among under-18s have doubled since 2017” – Data show that prescriptions of puberty blockers for trans children have more than doubled since 2017, from 633 that year to 1,390 filled scripts during 2021, the Mail reports.
“NYTimes sparks outrage over opinion piece demanding that Britain’s ‘racist’ Royal Family is dismantled and suggesting ‘beacon’ Meghan had to pay with ‘her life’ to marry into the institution” – The New York Times has been criticised over an opinion piece which accused the British Royal Family of racism and suggested Meghan Markle had to pay with “her life” to marry into the institution, the Mail reports.

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