News Round-Up

• “NHS chiefs in Scotland postpone non-emergency operations” – Health board chiefs in Scotland have suspended non-emergency operations and ordered GPs to only see urgent patients after Nicola Sturgeon said mass cancellations would be permitted, the Telegraph reports.
• “More than half of pregnant women denied partner’s support during birth despite end of Covid-19 rules” – A report by the Care Quality Commission shows a “concerning decline” in women’s experiences with maternity services over the last five years, reports the Telegraph.
• “Boris Johnson ‘joked about being at U.K.’s most unsocially distanced party’ during lockdown” – Yet another allegation against the former Prime Minister is made in the new ITV podcast, “Partygate: The Inside Story”, according to the Telegraph.
• “Novak Djokovic: Covid vaccination backlash made me villain of the world” – On the eve of the first grand slam of 2023, Djokovic hit out at the treatment he received last year, the Telegraph reports.
• “Has China admitted failure for Zero Covid?” – China has admitted that it abruptly ended its Zero Covid policy because it had already failed, writes Cindy Yu in the Spectator.
• “Facebook Is Dead Unless You Post Something that Does Not Matter” – Writing in Brownstone, Jeffrey Tucker says that none of his posts have had any reach at all on Facebook during the pandemic – but when he posted an inane picture of a puppy he was suddenly visible again.
• “FDA Advisers are angry at Moderna for hiding data” – Igor Chudov on the strange story of the FDA advisers who have discovered Moderna didn’t let on about unfavourable booster data.
• “Pentagon officially drops COVID-19 vaccine mandate” – The Pentagon on Tuesday formally rescinded its COVID-19 vaccination mandate, dropping the shot’s requirement across the U.S. military over a year after it was first put in place, according to a new memo signed by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the Hill reports.
• “Landmark Lawsuit Slaps Legacy Media With Antitrust, First Amendment Claims for Censoring Covid-Related Content” – A lawsuit filed this week by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and multiple other plaintiffs alleges the Trusted News Initiative, a self-described “industry partnership” launched in March 2020 by several of the world’s largest news organisations, partnered with Big Tech firms to collectively censor online news, the Defender reports.
• “Masks again, again and again” – Dr. Tom Jefferson with the story of evidence on masks, barriers, distancing, hygiene, etc.
• “Seventeen percent of teenagers had heart symptoms after their second Pfizer mRNA jab, a new peer-reviewed paper shows” – Alex Berenson reports that 1% had abnormal ECGs and one in 1000 had myocarditis or significant arrhythmias. Oddly, this is orders of magnitude lower than the one in 43 with suspected subclinical myocarditis in the Thailand study, a discrepancy which needs to be explained.
• “How Deadly Were the Covid Lockdowns?” – For Americans under 45, there were more excess deaths without the virus in 2020-21 than with it, write Rob Arnott and Casey B. Mulligan in the Wall Street Journal.
• “The Ultimate List: mRNA Vaccines and Myocarditis” – A new reference page from Justin Hart, who says the “evidence is now overwhelming” that the vaccines are “a very real risk to kids, young adults and possibly all ages”.
• “When Do We Need a Purity Test for Opposition to Lockdowns?” – Michael Senger considers the different ways leaders have responded to the pandemic and how far that means we should trust them now.
• “Big solar goes Big Bust: Largest solar plant in the world dies before it can be built” – The massive Sun Cable project collapsed into voluntary administration four years after promising to build the world’s largest solar power plant in Australia’s Northern Territory, writes Jo Nova.
• “Coal power facility to stay open for extra two years in blow to Net Zero” – Ratcliffe-on-Soar station is to be kept open for two years longer than planned as the energy crisis deals a blow to the green agenda, reports the Telegraph.
• “Jeremy Clarkson has right to ‘say what he wants’ about Meghan, says Culture Secretary” – Michelle Donelan defends the former Top Gear host’s freedom of speech after the controversial ‘shame parade’ column for the Sun.
• “Young men are in crisis – and nobody seems to care” – Madeline Grant writes in the Telegraph that “the massive audiences gained by toxic gurus such as Andrew Tate point to a deeper problem in society”.
• “‘Woke’ Now Dictating Western Foreign Policy” – Frank Haviland in the European Conservative says it’s hard not to conclude that the Biden administration brought back Brittney Griner but not Paul Whelan from Russia because of Griner’s woke credentials.
• “Protesters storm McGill University talk on sex vs. gender, shutting it down” – Trans rights advocates stormed into a talk on Tuesday afternoon at McGill University led by a speaker associated with a group they say is “notoriously transphobic and trans-exclusionary”, shutting it down, reports CBC News.
• “Elgin Marbles belong in the U.K., says Culture Secretary” – Michelle Donelan casts doubt over a future deal for the artworks, saying that sending them to Greece would open a “can of worms”, reports the Telegraph.
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