Caroline Farrow is back again with us looking over the top news stories this week....... Including the Immigration crisis, 'Its OK to be white' is a hate crime?, Emojis go super woke, Primary pupils asked to all wear dresses to school, Grooming Gang report, Republicans go big in Virginia, 1000's of carers jobs at risk if not vaxxed, New York City set to start sticking needles in the little ones as well as some good old bribery, Pfizer whistleblowers and more!
In 2010, frustrated by many of the media headlines and negative coverage of Catholicism, Caroline began a blog in defence of Catholic teaching and to reflect on UK current affairs and world events through the lens of a Catholic woman. What began as nothing more than personal musings designed to explain and propose controversial ethics and life issues to those who had struggled with them, or to de-bunk misleading narratives and headlines, soon mushroomed and popular posts would receive more than 30,000 unique visitors a day.
Between 2011 and 2017, she was a member of the organisation Catholic Voices, set up to promote the defence of Catholic teaching in the public square and made numerous media interventions on their behalf and quickly became the 'go to' voice for media organisations looking to represent a female conservative Catholic point of view.
Since 2013 Caroline has written a weekly column for the Catholic Universe and written for and featured in a number of other publications such as the Catholic Herald, the National Catholic Register, the Conservative Woman, Mercatornet, Crisis Magazine, LifeSiteNews and Church Militant. She used to write on Catholic culture at the now defunct Spectator Arts blog and has been featured in the Daily Mail, the Observer and the New Statesman.
In 2013, Caroline was included as part of the first cohort of the BBC's '100 women' and she regularly features on BBC News, Sky News, ITV's Good Morning Britain, BBC Sunday Morning Live, the Big Questions and has made multiple appearances on Radio 4's flagship programmes Today programme, Woman's Hour, the Moral Maze and the Sunday programme as well as featuring in one-off documentaries. Caroline also presented the coverage for March for Life UK for EWTN and has contributed to News Nightly and Celtic Connections. She also frequently contributes to Talk Radio, LBC and BBC local radio as well as BBC Radio Ulster, discussing matters pertaining to Catholicism, feminism and the challenges of motherhood and family life.
Caroline has an eclectic career background. She began her professional life as a student accountant for a big 5 firm before succumbing to a desire for travel and adventure and became a member of cabin crew working both long and short-haul routes for internationally acclaimed airlines. Having got the travel bug out of her system, she returned to work within investment banking and private equity in the City of London until her first child was born.
Caroline is currently the campaign director at CitizenGO, has 5 children of school-age, four girls and one boy and is married to a Catholic priest who converted from Anglicanism, a few years after they were married.
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Links to the stories discussed this week
Immigration Crisis
Border Force is REFUSING to turn back migrant boats despite Priti Patel's vow amid fears more will die after a record 853 cross English Channel in ONE DAY
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10171419/Border-Force-REFUSING-turn-migrant-boats-despite-Priti-Patels-vow.html
Wokemadness
Basingstoke 'It’s okay to be white' posters spark investigation
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-59179914
Pregnant Man Emoji
https://twitter.com/CF_Farrow/status/1456781092405526528?s=20
Primary school asks boys (and teachers) to wear skirts to class to 'promote equality'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10163303/Primary-school-asks-boys-teachers-wear-skirts-class-promote-equality.html
Eternals banned in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait after Disney refuses gay cuts – reports
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/nov/04/eternals-banned-middle-east-same-sex-kiss
Grooming Gangs
Member of Parliament for Rother Valley Grooming Gang report
https://twitter.com/Alex_Stafford/status/1455816199212879874?s=20
US Politics
Black and Latino voters often pick Democrats. But Republicans of color just won 2 big ‘firsts’ in Virginia
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/11/03/sears-miyares-virginia-black-latino/
Covid
Front Page Daily Mirror 3rd Nov 60,000 Carers face sack over jobs for not getting vaccine
New York City will start vaccinating children between the ages of 5 and 11 at schools TOMORROW - even as controversy rages over whether the low-risk age group should get the shot
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10161629/New-York-City-start-vaccinating-children-ages-5-11-schools-TOMORROW.html
Now De Blasio bribes kids! NYC will PAY children between the ages of 11 and 5 $100 each to get the COVID vaccine as city-run sites start giving the shot today: 'That's a lot of candy'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10166661/NYC-PAY-children-ages-11-5-100-COVID-shot.html
Covid-19: Researcher blows the whistle on data integrity issues in Pfizer’s vaccine trial
https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635
Originally broadcast as a live video news review 6.11.21
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