- “Musk says investigating journalists for non-crimes ‘needs to stop’ after Allison Pearson case” – Elon Musk and senior British politicians have led a growing backlash against police for investigating a social media post by the Telegraph’s Allison Pearson, writes Freddie Attenborough for the Free Speech Union. To join the FSU, click here.
- “The police have gone full Orwell” – The recording of ‘non-crime hate incidents’ has got to stop, says Charlie Peters in Spiked.
- “The dystopian police investigation into Allison Pearson” – The British experiment in policing ‘hate’ has become as farcical as it is authoritarian, writes Tom Slater in the Spectator.
- “More than 30 Church officials face the sack after Archbishop of Canterbury quits” – Thirty members of the Church of England clergy face being sacked over their failure to stop the most prolific child abuser in the institution’s history, according to the Telegraph.
- “The four bishops under pressure to follow Welby and resign” – The Archbishop of Canterbury’s resignation has intensified demands for accountability as a child sex abuse scandal engulfs senior clergy, reports the Telegraph.
- “Farmers hit with tractor ban at London inheritance tax protest” – Police have imposed a tractor ban on farmers planning a mass protest over the Chancellor’s inheritance tax raid, says the Telegraph.
- “Farage rated most favourable of Britain’s politicians” – As Keir Starmer’s fortunes go from bad to worse, things only seem to be improving for Nigel Farage, notes the Spectator’s Steerpike.
- “The world isn’t listening to Keir Starmer’s climate preaching” – Keir Starmer said he was travelling to COP29 in Baku intending to “lead the world on climate change”. The truth is different, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Rich care more about climate change than poorer households” – An ONS survey has found that wealthy households are more likely than the working class to care about the environment, according to the Telegraph.
- “The effectiveness of lockdowns, face masks and vaccination programmes vis-à-vis mitigating COVID-19” – In a ResearchGate paper, Dr. Martin Sewell claims that Covid became a pandemic of overreach, with lockdowns costly, masks useless and vaccines ultimately causing more harm than good.
- “Woman fired for refusing Covid vaccine wins record $12 million” – A Detroit jury has awarded over $12 million to a former Blue Cross Blue Shield employee fired for refusing a Covid vaccine on religious grounds, reports Newsweek.
- “Let’s all join the Massachusetts Medical Society” – On the TTE Substack, Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson suggest you join the Massachusetts Medical Society, where retractions and conflicts of interest seem to pay quite well.
- “German retiree facing criminal charges for retweeting a meme implying that the Minister of Economic Affairs is a moron” – On Substack, Eugyppius reports that a retiree was raided by police for retweeting a meme implying that the Green Minister of Economic Affairs might be a “professional moron”.
- “Italian president rebukes Elon Musk for wading into migrants row” – The President of Italy warned Elon Musk to keep out of Italian politics after the tech tycoon demanded the sacking of judges who blocked Giorgia Meloni’s migrants policy, according to ABC News.
- “U.S. Government employee charged with leaking Israel’s plans to attack Iran’” – A U.S. Government employee faces charges over an online leak of classified documents about Israel’s potential plans for a retaliatory strike against Iran, reports CBS News.
- “Trump gets unchecked power as Republicans keep House majority” – Republicans will maintain their slim grip on power in the House of Representatives giving President-elect Trump and the GOP total control of Congress, says the Mail.
- “Trump to go after ‘woke generals’ with ‘warrior board’ executive order” – Donald Trump is considering establishing a “warrior board” to review senior officers in the U.S. military and weed out “woke generals”, according to the Mail.
- “No Trump bump: MSNBC heamorrhaging viewers since Election Day, sheds more than half of primetime audience” – MSNBC averaged 1.1 million viewers in October but plummeted to an average audience of only 736,000 following Trump’s historic landslide victory, reports Fox News.
- “What does RFK Jr. mean for healthcare?” – U.S. healthcare is broken. RFK Jr. is an unpredicable and chaotic force. With the right direction, he may do what has been unthinkable: a deep reform of the system, writes Prof. Vinay Prasad on his Substack.
- “Trump is a racist, says Sadiq Khan” – Sadiq Khan says Donald Trump criticised him in the past because the President-elect is “racist”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Anger as CofE commission suggests congregations are ‘racist’” – The Church of England has sparked fury after its racial justice commission suggested congregations in rural parishes around Britain are racist, reports the Mail.
- “What the Boots Christmas advert backlash is really about” – Christmas television adverts are meant to be comforting, homely and traditional. Didn’t Boots get the memo? asks Patrick West in the Spectator.
- “The Guardian quits Elon Musk’s ‘toxic’ X after Trump victory” – The Guardian has announced it will no longer post content on X.
- “The Lefties leaving X because of Musk and Trump (but only once they’ve posted about it first)” – A host of celebrities talked of leaving the U.S. if Trump won the election. But in the wake of his historic victory, they’ve already started a mass X-odus, reports Kate Wills in the Telegraph.
- “The Guardian leaving X is Elon Musk’s greatest gift” – In the Telegraph, Tom Slater hopes the Guardian and the Bluesky converts and the celebs do stay, or return. Not for the articles, or the insights, but for the laughs.
- “What is Bluesky Social and why are people flocking to it after Trump victory?” – Bluesky, an alternative to Elon Musk’s X, has surged in popularity in the wake of Donald Trump’s election victory, reports the Telegraph.
- “Federal employees surviving in the private sector” – On X, a clip of David Attenborough watching an orangutang fumble with a hammer and saw is compared to Elon Musk watching federal employees survive in the private sector.
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