News Round-Up

• “USA extends Covid vaccine requirement for foreign visitors” – While the world has moved on, the U.S. continues to live in Biden’s Covid fantasy world by extending the Covid vaccine requirement for foreign visitors until April 10th 2023, writes Stats Jamie.
• “An open letter to the British Heart Foundation” – Steve Kirsch responds to Sarah Knapton’s gaslighting Telegraph piece, and asks the British Heart Foundation how it can overlook the Covid vaccine as a possible cause of the huge rise in excess deaths.
• “Not Masks Again” – Masks never worked and Government knows it. They also cause serious harms, writes Hugh McCarthy.
• “It’s not just the NHS: health services are imploding all over Europe” – Waiting times are surging, staff are leaving and patients are dying across the continent, writes Matt Oliver in the Telegraph.
• “China ends quarantine requirements for inbound travellers” – China finally climbs down on its hardline Zero-Covid strategy, reports the Mail.
• “Watch: Chinese police clash with Covid test factory workers after sudden sackings” – Chinese police have clashed with hundreds of workers at a Covid test kit factory after a number were suddenly fired and deprived of pay following the lifting of restrictions, the Telegraph reports.
• “Where’s the Woodward and Bernstein of the Covid Scandals?” – Why is there no Covid equivalent to the journalists that broke the Watergate scandal, asks Bill Rice in Brownstone. 
• “The number of new disability claimants has doubled in a year” – according to the IFS – another indicator of the nation’s declining health.
• “Climate doomsters are once again hijacking science to push a toxic agenda” – The discredited fallacies of a few blinkered scientists and activists are fast becoming troublingly mainstream, writes Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
• “Good 2022 Climate News the MSM didn’t tell you” – All the good climate news you won’t hear from the mainstream media, from Javier Vinós in WUWT.
• “Svalbard walrus thrive in the face of sea ice decline, mocking predictions of future catastrophe” – Bad news for climate doom-mongers, good news for the mighty walrus, writes Dr. Susan Crockford for WUWT.
• “Why I’ve pulled the plug on my electric car” – Giles Coren tries to offload his useless electric car, in the Sunday Times.
• “Prince Harry ‘should have been denied U.S. residency’ over drug use revealed in memoir” – Prince Harry should have been denied residency in the U.S. if he failed to disclose his drug use and could see it revoked if he “lied”, a leading U.S. immigration expert has suggested, according to the Telegraph.
• “The Frank Report says goodbye” – The New Conservative’s Frank Report sadly bows out, but reminds readers “you’re not going mad – it’s just that everyone else is.” 
• “Jordan Peterson: Enemy of the State” – Jeffrey A. Tucker weighs in on the disturbing re-education of Jordan Peterson for Brownstone: “No question that this follows his aggressive questioning of the whole of the Covidian agenda, including mass forced vaccination of the population”.
• “Running Out of People” – The Conservative Party needs to tackle wokeness head-on and execute a credible, electorally marketable plan to revive the economic fortunes of younger voters if it is to survive, writes Joe Hackett.
• “Capsule Summaries of all Twitter Files Threads to Date, With Links and a Glossary” –Matt Taibbi offers a handy compilation of one-paragraph summaries of all the Twitter Files threads so far.
• “Fears trans law may put women at risk in school, hospitals and prisons” –Nicola Sturgeon’s new trans law could put women at risk in English schools due to ‘gender tourists’, the Mail reports.
• “Graham Linehan slams Apple TV after it branded him ‘anti-transgender’” – Graham Linehan is considering taking legal action against Apple TV after he was branded ‘anti-transgender’, the Mail reports.
• “Tim Davie facing revolt over transgender Pride network ‘policing’ the BBC” – The BBC Director General has been told by staff to “shut down” the corporation’s Pride networks after a co-chair complained he wanted more influence over stories, according to the Telegraph.
• “Sam Mendes says having gender-neutral awards at Oscars is ‘inevitable’” – Almost as inevitable as this story, from Michael Murphy in the Telegraph, being really annoying.
• “Labour would ban cigarette sales to stamp out smoking, says Wes Streeting” – The Shadow Health Secretary said more radical options were needed as the U.K. was set to miss its target of being ‘smoke-free’ by 2030, reports Charles Hymas in the Telegraph. Is this the new Net Zero?
• “A re-enactment of Prince William and Prince Harry’s fistfight!” – Jimmy Kimmel is very much a political enemy to sensible sceptics, but perhaps we can give him a pass when mocking Harry with sketches like this.

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