News Round-Up

• “End These Travel Restrictions Now” – “For almost three years now, many wonderful artists, intellectuals, students, business professionals, and musicians have been locked out of U.S. borders, even just to tour around and see this great land and meet up with friends,” writes Jeffrey Tucker for Brownstone. And the Government has just extended the ban on unvaccinated visitors entering the country again.
• “Cancer vaccine to use same mRNA technology as Covid vaccine in U.K. trials” – mRNA cancer vaccine trials will start in the U.K. this year after the Government signed a deal with BioNTech – though an expert tell the Telegraph that the treatment may not be powerful enough to eliminate whole tumours, the Telegraph reports.
• “Flu admissions worst for a decade, new data reveals” – Britain is in the grip of the worst flu season since 2017-18, reports the Telegraph.
• “Patients waiting more than 1,000 days for routine surgery” – NHS figures show people have been on waiting lists for almost four years at some of the worst affected hospital trusts, the Telegraph reports.
• “ICAN Obtains Disturbing Information About AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 Vaccine from the UK Equivalent of the FDA” – The Informed Consent Action Network reports on a newly released AstraZeneca study which finds vector DNA in the sciatic nerve, bone marrow, liver, lungs and spleen of vaccinated mice.
• “Inhospitable hotels: Japan’s continuing mask mania” – Guy Gin writes on the case of lawyer Yasunori Sakurai, who is suing the 5-star Westin Hotel Tokyo for refusing him accommodation because he was unmasked.
• “These Doctors Pushed Masking, Covid Lockdowns on Twitter. Turns Out, They Don’t Exist” – The San Francisco Standard exposes fake pro-lockdown doctor Twitter accounts.
• “State Power and Covid Crimes: Part 5” – Ramesh Thakur in Brownstone suggests that this year we will learn if Covid illiberalism will be rolled back or has become a permanent feature of the political landscape in the West.
• “German court rules local ban on public worship due to Covid ‘illegal’” – Churches in the German city of Lage were unlawfully forced to close during the coronavirus pandemic, a court has ruled, according to the Christian Institute.
• “Review of studies on vaccine-induced myocarditis finds that the Science we’re meant to be following pervasively obfuscates the risk of the mRNA jabs for young men” – Of the few studies that even attempt to assess the population-wide risk of myocarditis following vaccination, nearly three-fourths neglect to include the proper stratifiers, writes Eugyppius.
• “Excess Deaths in the U.K. continue to soar” – The Naked Emperor suspects he knows what is behind it.
• “Salute these brave doctors telling the truth about vaccines” – Kathy Gyngell in TCW praises Dr. Ros Jones and the latest initiative she is involved with, Doctors for Patients U.K.
• “One in 20 people were infected with Covid at Christmas, data shows” – Analysts at the Office for National Statistics say almost 3 million people had the virus in the festive week in a big jump from the week before.
• “Electric vehicle drivers hit with surge pricing at thousands of roadside charging points” – Providers increase costs during peak times on a quarter of the public network, according to the Telegraph.
• “Green extremists are reinventing feudalism by banning travel” – Reducing speed limits and imposing excessive Ulez charges makes life more awkward and expensive for scant benefit, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “Facebook accused of blocking advert satirising Joe Biden in a free speech row” – The social media giant told bosses at the Spectator magazine that an image of the U.S. President from this week’s edition was banned, the Sun reports.
• “Why did Facebook reject the Spectator’s Joe Biden cover?” – Spectator Editor Fraser Nelson with the inside track on the latest Big Tech free speech scandal.
• “Germany’s digital minister meets with Elon Musk, says Musk ‘agreed’ to EU’s censorship laws” – The agreement is reported in Reclaim the Net – but I suspect what Musk means by it may be different from what the censorious politicians mean.
• “WhatsApp Is Fighting Censorship With a Proxy Workaround” – WhatsApp has created a proxy server to allow users in countries with strict censorship or internet blocks to access the app, Gizmodo reports.
• “How many people are actually trans?” – Debbie Hayton in UnHerd thinks it’s more complicated than it looks.
• “And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how it is done” – Laurence Fox tweets Pierre Poilievre’s video criticising the re-education of Jordan Peterson.

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