News Round-Up

• “Elon Musk claims he had ‘major side effects’ from the Covid booster shot that left him feeling like he ‘was dying’ and claims his cousin was hospitalised with inflammation of the heart” – The Twitter and Tesla CEO said the second booster “crushed me”, while also sharing that his younger cousin, who he said was in “peak health” had to be hospitalised with myocarditis after his jab, the Mail reports.
• “WSJ Shreds Vaccine Makers, Biden Admin Over “Deceptive” Booster Campaign” – Wall Street Journal editorial board member Allysia Finley blasts vaccine makers over their “deceptive” campaign for bivalent Covid boosters, and slams several federal agencies for taking “the unprecedented step of ordering vaccine makers to produce them and recommending them without data supporting their safety or efficacy”, reports Zero Hedge.
• “Excess deaths are soaring as health-care systems wobble” – “Governments thinking about the next pandemic should note the long-term consequences of lockdowns,” says the Economist, adding in the words of Thomas More: “It’s a pretty poor doctor who cannot cure one disease without giving you another.”
• “East Asia’s mask obsession is a catastrophe the West must avoid” – “Putting it bluntly, everyone in Thailand is still wearing masks,” writes Sean Thomas in the Spectator. “Everyone wears them everywhere all the time.”
• “Covid’s reclassification in Japan: down but not out” – Guy Gin looks at the coming changes in Japan.
• “Vaxxing, Covid, and International Mortality Rates” – Ron Unz continues to make the case against the vaccines being responsible for the deaths of large numbers of working-age people.
• “The moral vacancy of further school disruption” – UsforThem writes that “if we have learned one thing over the last three years, it’s that schools are as critical a part of our national infrastructure as any blue-light service”.
• “BBC ignores vaccine rally on its doorstep; Matt Le Tissier’s powerful address” – Kathy Gyngell in TCW reports on the demonstration outside the BBC HQ that the corporation ignored.
• “Petition to stop the COVID-19 mass vaccination of children and young people with more than 9,000 signatories will be discussed in the Portuguese Parliament on February 3rd 2023” – Abir Ballan tweets some welcome news and adds that it “will be televised”.
• “Affordable electric cars ‘not viable’” – A mass market in affordable electric cars will not happen soon because of the difficulty of producing them on a commercially viable basis, one of the largest makers of ‘zero-emission’ vehicles for British drivers has warned, reports the Times.
• “U.K. Coal Plants Fired Up Again as Renewable Energy Output Fails” – Coal plants scheduled for demolition in March 2023 have been fired up to rescue Britain’s electricity grid, but what is the plan for next winter, asks WUWT.
• “National Grid ready to pay customers to cut energy use as cold weather continues” – The ‘Demand Flexibility Service’ is activated after increased pressure on U.K. electricity owing to over-reliance on intermittent renewables, the Telegraph reports.
• “The National Grid is falling apart thanks to Net Zero” – We’re left with demand management to keep the lights on – rewarding the rich at the expense of the poor, and all using taxpayer funds, is Ross Clark’s damning verdict in the Telegraph.
• “China To Accelerate The Construction Of Coal-Fired Power Plants” – China is set to install even more coal-fired power generation this year than in 2022, reports OilPrice.
• “Mass flight cancellations at Heathrow as temperatures plunge to lowest in a decade” – There were severe disruption for thousands of passengers amid freezing fog, the Telegraph reports.
• “Bjorn Lomborg: climate change alarmism and the true cost of Net Zero” – Winston Marshall on his Spectator podcast speaks with sceptical environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg, who explains how Net Zero and the Paris agreement will do more harm than good.
• “Aretha Franklin song ‘Natural Woman’ deemed offensive” – The latest nonsense from the gender confusion activists, as reported in Sky News Australia.
• “The gender jihadists are out of control” – Trans activism is now little more than a witch-hunt of disobedient women, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Tory candidates given lessons on ‘white resentment’ before standing for Parliament” – The Telegraph reports that would-be MPs are being offered unconscious bias training, despite the Government promising to “phase out” such a practice across Whitehall in 2020.
• “LSE is right to cut ties with Stonewall” – The London School of Economics shocked its student union this week by informing it that the university is disaffiliating from Stonewall, but this is the right move, writes John Armstrong in the Spectator.
• “To the CEO of ITV: Don’t Cancel Jeremy Clarkson” – Don’t forget to sign the FSU petition, now over 44,000 signatures.
• “Not one black person on Black Boy Lane wanted the name changed. Not one” – “Thank goodness Sadiq Khan and Haringey Council are there with £180,000 of public money to step in and be offended on their behalf,” tweets Save Our Statues.

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