News Round-Up

• “Biden administration to end many COVID-19 vaccine requirements next week” – The Biden administration will end its COVID-19 vaccine requirements for federal workers, federal contractors and international air travellers next week, reports US News.
• “Randi Weingarten’s incredible Covid memory loss” – The teachers’ union boss tries to rewrite the pandemic history of school closures, according to the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board.
• “The freezer-truck canard” – In Brownstone, Jeffrey A. Tucker discredits Dr. Fauci’s recent use of the fact that freezer trucks lined up outside some hospitals at certain times during Covid as a justification for lockdowns.
• “Where have the adults gone?” – Paul Frijters, Gigi Foster and Michael Baker lament the disappearance of generalists and argue that the “group cognition problem we encountered in Covid times is a natural outgrowth of super-specialisation”, in Brownstone.
• “When I lost my sense of claret” – We cannot be thankful enough to those who have tried to protect us against the “deadly virus” and the truly devastating consequences of long Covid, says Thorsteinn Siglaugsson who, for a difficult spell, could not “distinguish between a 2005 second growth Haut-Médoc and a 2019 cru bourgeoise Graves”.
• “£40 million for cycling charity behind low-traffic zones” – A cycling and walking charity that has lobbied councils to approve the introduction of low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) has received huge sums in local government contracts to design and implement the schemes, reports the Times.
• “Greenpeace activists held in Belgium after occupying gas terminal” – Greenpeace Belgium is working to release 14 protesters who sailed inflatables into the Fluxys LGN terminal in Zeebrugge, reports the Guardian.
• “Many electric vehicles can’t go as far as advertised, report says” – EPA ratings are optimistic for most electric models, according to Fox News.
• “Biden’s quiet attack on rural America smells just as bad as manure” – Since the beginning of his administration, President Biden has enacted radical policies and imposed ridiculous mandates that would devastate our rural way of life, argues Rep. Randy Feenstra on Fox News.
• “The American anti-woke coalition” – “The West needs to develop a cultural vaccine against the woke mind virus as quickly as possible and start focusing on things that matter,” concludes Triggernometry co-host Konstantin Kisin after spending several weeks travelling in the U.S.
• “A crisis of masculinity imperils the foundations of the West” – In Britain and elsewhere, too many men and boys are being ostracised, with tragic results for both sexes, says Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
• “Vast majority of Americans believe media increasing country’s political divide, according to poll” – A new poll found that nearly three quarters of Americans believe the media is increasing polarisation in the U.S., reports Fox News.
• “John Stuart Mill and the despotism of progress” – Conservatives have been fooled by J.S. Mill’s vision of liberty, argues University of Notre Dame Professor of Political Science Patrick Deneen in UnHerd.
• “Great Expectations viewers slam BBC for changing ending” – BBC viewers were left raging on Sunday evening when the latest adaptation of Great Expectations concluded – with a different ending to the one Dickens wrote, according to MailOnline.
• “Is Scotland the most sexist country in Europe?” – Women are being silenced, harassed and abused under Scotland’s gender regime, argues Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “It’s often the anti-racists who are the foulest of the lot” – Here’s a thought experiment. Imagine that Richard Sharp, the now ex-chairman of the BBC, was Muslim, says Stephen Pollard in MailOnline.
• “The sexism of Labour’s ‘respect’ lessons” – Starmer’s plan to teach boys how to talk to girls will sow fear and mistrust between the sexes, writes Ella Whelan in Spiked.
• “J.K. Rowling backs Joanna Cherry MP after comedy club blocks show” – Edinburgh Fringe’s biggest venue has been warned that cancellation could be illegal, reports the Times.
• “Transgender cyclist Austin Killips wins women’s Tour of the Gila – next stop Olympics?” – Killips, a biological male, took up cycling in 2019, and may now try to compete at the Olympics in the women’s category, reports the Telegraph.
• “Pupils as young as seven are being encouraged wear pronoun badges” – The Mail on Sunday has seen lesson plans which reveal children in Key Stage Two – which covers seven to 11 year-olds – are taught about being non-binary.
• “NHS Tavistock transgender clinic is threatened with court action by watchdog after failing to reveal extent of relationship with trans charity Mermaids” – London-based Tavistock Centre has until the end of the week to respond. Failure to do so could see the matter referred to the High Court, reports the Daily Mail.
• “Planners approve Britain’s ‘first female-only tower block’ in London” – The 102 flats are to be rented to single women, but biological men who identify as women can also apply, reports MailOnline.
• “Rishi Sunak is Britain’s first anti-woke Prime Minister” – Watch Mark Dolan’s monologue on GB News where he explains why Rishi’s stance on wokery may just win him the next general election.

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