The Media & Their Narratives.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

End Times News Round-Up (just cause)

• “Time magazine mocked for saying that exercise is racist” – The polarising piece, titled ‘The White Supremacist Origins of Exercise’, says exercise was invented by racist white Americans.
  
  
• “We can cut tax if we tackle our public spending” – Daniel Johnson in the Mail argues that a tax burden as a proportion of GDP of 37.5% is a shameful betrayal of everything that Tories are supposed to believe in.
  
  
• “Labour reaffirms pledge to fight structural racism amid disparity figures” – Labour doubles down on the blatantly false proposition – ‘misinformation’, in fact – that Britain is structurally racist.
  
  
• “NHS hospital bans visitors and brings back masks due to winter bugs” – A pair of NHS hospitals in England have imposed visitor bans and mask mandates in scenes reminiscent of lockdown, reports the Mail.
  
  
• “China’s Covid nightmare is the final proof: lockdowns were a total failure” – Sweden’s refusal to impose compulsory lockdowns has now been completely vindicated, argues Matt Ridley in the Telegraph.
  
  
• “Sponges, snakes and snowy landscapes: Age of Extinction’s year in pictures – international” – Guardian photographers travelled across the globe in a desperate search for evidence of global warming.
  
  
• “Negative Covid tests to be made mandatory for travellers from China” – Rishi Sunak has U-turned and the U.K. will now insist on negative PCR tests for all Chinese arrivals. See this piece by David Livermore for why that’s pointless.
  
  
• “The BBC’s only response to charges of systemic bias? Suck it up” – Two damning reports have found evidence of what Roger Scruton called ‘oikophobia’ at the BBC – the hatred of home.
  
  
• “Why won’t the Conservatives stand up for conservatism any more?” – Whether it be via classical liberals like Steve Baker or social liberals such as Theresa May, genuinely conservative ideas have been marginalised, argues Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
  
  
• “2022 was the year we realised we’re fighting Cold War II against China” – Niall Ferguson in the Mail argues that China is the main threat to the peace and prosperity of the West. This is the historian, not the epidemiologist.
  
  
• “Fury as Police Scotland describes paedophiles as ‘minor-attracted people’” – Campaigners see the contentious term, used in a force report, as an attempt to normalise paedophilia, reports the Telegraph.
  
  
• “What if the USSR hadn’t collapsed?” – Dominick Sandbrook imagines what the world might look like if the U.S. and not the USSR had collapsed in 1989.
  
  
• “Reparations are a disaster for race relations” – Lionel Shriver in the Times says Labour’s cynical attempts to win over the BAME vote will sow division and conflict.
  
  
• “Clearly masking in hospitals made very little impact, to inflict this cruelty on visitors to hospitals and their loved ones is completely unnecessary” Director of free Speech Union, Toby Young, reacts to two NHS hospitals banning visitors and bringing back face coverings.
  
  
• “Did Physicists Open a Portal to Extra Time Dimension, as Claimed? That’s the way the story reads at Scientific American. But experimental physicist Rob Sheldon says not so fast.”
  

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Come, children, gather round my knee;
Something is about to be.
Tonight’s December Thirty-First,
Something is about to burst.
The clock is crouching, dark and small,
Like a time bomb in the hall.
Hark! It’s midnight, children dear.
Duck! Here comes another year.
- Ogden Nash

Onward we go.