News Round-Up

• “Sweden is Ron DeSantis’s trump card” – Johan Anderberg writes in UnHerd that the Florida Governor’s Covid policy has been vindicated.
• “Scotland’s avoidable death rate is on the rise” – Scotland’s avoidable death rate has increased 4%, writes Lucy Dunn in the Spectator.
• “AstraZeneca finally abandons plan to get Covid shot approved in the U.S.” – The Mail reports that regulators refused to approve the jab amid concerns over data and fears it could cause a fatal blood clot. The more likely real reason is that it is not mRNA, the preferred vaccine technology.
• “British Covid testing start-up collapses as demand drops” – Vatic Health received Government funding early in the pandemic but has now gone bust, the Telegraph reports.
• “Alberta Health Minister accepts court ruling denying unvaccinated woman organ transplant” – The Alberta Health Minister is accepting the shocking Alberta Court of Appeal’s ruling to deny an unvaccinated woman a liver transplant, which doctors told her she will die without, True North reports. 
• “Australian Media: “Majestic Princess cruise with 800 COVID-19 patients set to dock in Sydney”” – “Three years later and the press is still reporting cruise ship outbreaks like they matter,” writes Eugyppius. “I just want everything to stop being so stupid.”
• “How the FDA and CDC Are Hiding Covid Jab Dangers” – Joseph Mercola in the Epoch Times looks at the ways the U.S. federal healthcare bodies are concealing vaccine safety signals.
• “Covid Inquiry must avoid a ‘Groundhog Day’ of pandemic mistakes” – With the roll call of Core Participants for Module 2 of the Public Inquiry now public, are the right people there to ask the right questions, asks UsForThem.
• “Owners of emission-free vehicles to pay tax for the first time” – Electric car owners will have to pay road tax for the first time as part of “eye-watering” budget plans designed to fill a £54 billion hole in the public finances, reports the Mail.
• “Imperialism Of The Apocalypse” – The new climate imperialism works like this, says Michael Shellenberger: “Rich people deprive poor people of cheap energy in the name of climate change.”
• “So much for Musk the Twitter liberator” – Kathy Gyngell in TCW Defending Freedom has now been informed her Twitter suspension is permanent and will not be reviewed. Where are you, Elon?
• “Inside Elon Musk’s first meeting with Twitter employees” – The Verge has the inside track on everything Elon Musk told Twitter employees about what’s next.
• “Airplane! director David Zucker slams Hollywood for destroying comedy” – David Zucker, whose films include Airplane! and the Naked Gun series, said Hollywood has “destroyed” comedy by pandering to a minority of easily offended viewers, reports the Mail.
• “Cambridge students like me fear for free speech at our university” – Outcry among academics is one thing, says Charlie Bentley-Astor in the Telegraph, but there’s been little account of the worrying struggle playing out between students.
• “What is at stake in the buffer zone debate?” – Isabel Vaughan-Spruce in the Critic asks if we are prepared to sacrifice free expression.
• “Met’s anti-terror chief accused of ‘woke stunt’ wearing menopause vest” – Britain’s anti-terror chief has been accused of a “woke stunt” after he donned a special jacket that simulates menopausal hot flushes at Scotland Yard, reports the Mail.
• “Just Stop Oil spokesperson has racked up thousands of air miles” – Indigo Rumbelow, 28, appears to have travelled to Nepal twice since 2015 – posting a picture of herself jetting there by plane at around 30,000ft, the Mail reports.

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