News Round-Up

• “EasyJet passengers will no longer need face coverings from Sunday” – EasyJet passengers and crew will no longer need to wear masks onboard flights from Sunday if they are not a legal requirement at either end of the route, the Mail reports.
• “Millions more placed in lockdown to curb China’s largest Covid outbreak yet” – Authorities across the country rush to create hospital beds, fearing a ‘devastating’ wave similar to the one that has ‘overwhelmed’ Hong Kong, reports the Telegraph.
• “Over one billion visors bought by No.10 are still sitting in warehouses: Critics slam ‘needless stockpiling’ of face shields – which have ‘never been proven to thwart Covid’” – Campaigners today blasted the Government for “needlessly stockpiling” tens of millions of visors, and said an “efficient, swift” inquiry could not come soon enough, reports the Mail.
• “Covid in Wales: Mask and isolation rules may be extended” – Rising case rates worry ministers, but it is not clear which rules may be kept beyond next Monday, reports BBC News.
• “‘Jacinda mania’ is over” – Jacinda Ardern, once the golden girl of New Zealand politics, is in trouble: the country’s main opposition party is edging ahead of the Toothy Tyrant’s party in the polls for the first time in two years, writes Nicholas Sheppard in the Spectator.
• “Temporary suspension of ward visiting in all East Suffolk & North Essex NHS Foundation Trust hospitals” – Most ward visiting is being suspended in all hospitals run by the trust from Wednesday March 23rd. Is this its perverse way of commemorating the first lockdown?
• “Fauci: We Have to Be Prepared to Reinstitute Some Restrictions for Covid Variants” – National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that new variants of Covid could cause America to reinstitute some restrictions, reports Breitbart News.
• “A simple way to end vaccine misinformation immediately” – All a state has to do is mandate autopsies for anyone who dies within two months of a vaccination; the Medical Examiner would be required to make the results public, suggests Steve Kirsch on his Substack page.
• “Are the Vaccines Killing People?” – D.V. Williamson spies telltale signals in the CDC data.
• “You say shutting schools was ‘a mistake’, Mr Zahawi. Well, let’s hear your apology” – Joanna Gray in TCW Defending Freedom wants the Education Secretary to follow through on his crucial admission.
• “Save the Children rejects $1m Ukraine donation from North Sea oil company” – The charity turned down money from Neptune Energy on climate change grounds, according to the Telegraph.
• “Craven politicians are too scared to confront the true cost of electric cars” – The Treasury will soon face a £35 billion hole in the nation’s finances that no leader is prepared to fill, writes Philip Johnston in the Telegraph.
• “An entire London suburb could be ‘cancelled’ as council decolonisers close in” – Telegraph report that the popular district of Tulse Hill could be at risk of losing its name, which comes from a former Lord Mayor of London who had links to slavery.
• “Kemi Badenoch is forging a winning, conservative approach to tackling racial disparities” – True inclusion is about showing that our history and our institutions belong to everyone, argues Frank Young in CapX.
• “Commonwealth Games 2022 to allow trans women cyclists to compete for female medals” – Commonwealth Games chiefs have agreed on new gender rules which could pave the way for a trans woman to race for a female cycling medal, reports the Telegraph.
• “Sport must face up to reality – fairness and inclusion cannot co-exist with trans participation” – Ross Tucker in the Telegraph argues that unless one of the two is prioritised, the controversy will continue in a naïve and dishonest manner. Allison Pearson argues that “every win for Lia Thomas is a loss for women in sport”.
• “Half-hearted sanctions against Russia have already failed” – Russia has not defaulted on its sovereign debt after all; nor is it likely to do so under the current sanctions regime, and as long as Europe continues to finance Vladimir Putin’s military state with purchases of gas, oil, and coal, argues Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph.
• “Sanctioning Russia could topple the West” – A new Cold War would cripple the American empire, argues Thomas Fazi in UnHerd.
• “Diesel rationing risk from Russian oil ban” – Telegraph report that Britain’s phasing out of Russian oil means diesel supplies face being restricted, according to a warning from the world’s largest oil trader.
• “The Russian army has run out of time” – This first phase of the war is over. Russian forces will have to regroup and find a different strategy, writes Colonel Richard Kemp in the Telegraph.
• “Children were the group least impacted by the virus itself, but they’ve really borne the greatest burden” – Watch Co-Founder of UsforThem, Molly Kingsley, on GB News explain why she’s calling for a separate inquiry into the effects Covid lockdowns had on children.

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