News Round-Up

• “Has India already beaten the super-infectious new Covid variant?” – U-turn in exploding cases is proof Arcturus is just another ‘scariant’, experts say after warnings of carnage, reports MailOnline.
• “Fauci wants all the credit, none of the blame” – Should the President have used his judgment to ignore Fauci’s guidance? Of course. Is Fauci presenting his role in the pandemic accurately? Not even close, according to Tim Meads in the Daily Wire.
• “Revisionist history: Fauci and Weingarten distance themselves from the school closure policy they enacted and encouraged” – The media does not hold them accountable because they are political allies, says Prof. Vinay Prasad.
• “WHO insider gives analysis of its $31 billion pandemic plan” – Garrett Brown, a Professor of Global Health Policy who was recently hired by the WHO to determine whether its $31 billion plan for pandemic preparedness and response is feasible, has expressed concerns about the cost-effectiveness of the initiative, reports the Epoch Times.
• “CDC eases certain Covid vaccine requirements for international travellers to U.S.” – International travellers boarding flights to America will now be considered fully vaccinated two weeks after getting a single dose of either the Pfizer or Moderna mRNA vaccine, according to CNN.
• “Japan drops Covid border measures” – Passengers arriving in Japan will no longer be required to submit proof of vaccination or negative test results, according to the Straits Times.
• “Rise of the Ulez ‘Blade Runners’” – MailOnline speaks to the underground activists who’ve vowed to stop at nothing until they’ve “taken down every one of Sadiq Khan’s low-emission cameras’.
• “California approves rule banning diesel trucks by 2036” – The California Air Resources Board (CARB) approved new regulations and voted to ban the sale of diesel big rig trucks by 2036 and require all trucks to be zero-emissions by 2042, according to the Epoch Times.
• “Best and worst times to charge an electric car over May bank holidays to avoid queue chaos” – Electric car drivers looking to get away for the bank holiday weekends in May are being warned of which times to avoid when looking to charge in public, according to the Express.
• “Meat is crucial for human health, scientists warn” – Close to a thousand experts unite behind statement that rejects “zealotry” of plant-based diets and promotes livestock farming, according to the Telegraph.
• “Ron DeSantis: I back Kemi Badenoch in her war on wokery” – In an interview with the Telegraph, White House hopeful says the U.K. is “like a second home”.
• “Bristol University bans public from feminist event with Stonewall-critical lawyer” – Invited speaker Akua Reindorf KC has previously drawn the ire of transgender activists, reports the Telegraph.
• “The fear to speak freely still haunts university campuses” – Politicians have failed to provide adequate safeguards, leaving the task of resisting censorious activists to brave academics, says Inaya Folarin Iman in the Telegraph.
• “Why they hate Tucker Carlson” – The liberal elite’s fear of Fox News is really a fear of the white working class, argues Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “The first woke President” – Joe Biden has institutionalised identitarian dogma, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
• “Golden State’s ‘failures’ spark exodus” – More than 700,000 Californians fled the state since 2020, often moving to central states and powerhouses like Texas and Florida, reports the Express.  
• “The troubling truth about ‘gender affirming’ mastectomies” – In the Spectator, Kim Thomas explains some worrying realities of elective ‘top surgery’.
• “Montana bans transgender medical interventions for minors” – Senate Bill 99 prohibits puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and transgender surgeries for children, reports Fox News.
• “Anti-Semitism row erupts as Guardian under fire over ‘vile’ Richard Sharp cartoon” – Illustration of former BBC chairman described by Sajid Javid as something that “wouldn’t have looked out of place in a Nazi newspaper”, according to the Telegraph.
• “Anheuser-Busch hires ex-GOP aides to lobby conservatives after Dylan Mulvaney controversy” – Disclosures show that weeks ago the embattled company hired lobbying firm Origin Advocacy, reports the New York Post.
• “Progressive LGBT group pressures Bud Light to renew transgender support amid Dylan Mulvaney fallout” – The Human Rights Campaign says Anheuser-Busch’s response to controversy showed a “lack of fortitude”, reports Fox News.
• “You’ve talked about the woke mind virus in really apocalyptic terms” – Watch Bill Maher quiz Elon Musk about some of his statements condemning woke ideology on Real Time.

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