- “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- “Pentagon officially drops COVID-19 vaccine mandate” – The Pentagon on Tuesday formally rescinded its COVID-19 vaccination mandate, dropping the shot’s requirement across the U.S. military over a year after it was first put in place, according to a new memo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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I had never heard of handball until seeing this article.
Me neither but I’m liking the players. A lot.
Brilliant news.
Ww need the IHF to dig their feet in and for the players to form a single, defiant block and give the IHF authorities a monumental sex and travel response.
This has the potential to be a real goody. A sporting war. Loads of publicity and lots of bad press for the poison pushers, statistics all over the place, tragic stories. Billy and Klaus flapping. Bourla nowhere to be seen. Fishy in his cave. Sage in a bunker somewhere. Michie on a fact- finding mission in Antartica and Raine AWOL.
Marvellous.
Come on you lot.
Oh I fervently hope so.
In my own circle of musicians we dodged a bullet when a minority of Karens on a management committee tried to make vaccination a requirement of performing a symphony concert. They failed to impose the requirement, but then the venue owners imposed their own restrictions which scuppered the concert at the last moment. It’s chaos. We can’t be sure that some unknown authoritarian Karen isn’t going to veto our next attempt. Legal action looks prohibitively expensive, presumably it would be ECHR Right of Assembly Case versus Article 13 lawfare.
That’s upsetting to hear.
All the best
Michie the Bichie in the snow ! Frostbite would be too kind ! Mind you her hatchet face would probably melt the thickest ice
Nice one Freddy
The person who runs the IHF needs to be named and publicly shamed for the petty tyrant that he is.
Not yet. We want a proper set to, something that even The Times cannot ignore.
Come on lads. Get in to them!
Being a personal fiefdom, The Times can ignore whatever it wants!
I’ve looked him up. His name is Hassan Moustafa.
He’s been the president of the federation since 2000. So he’s been running the sport for 22 years, being reelected 6 times, the last 3 unopposed.
I bet he runs it like a personal fiefdom. That’s how most of these international federations operate, accountable to no one but themselves.
The Sep Blatter of Handball then !
You beat me to it Freddy.
Since when does the International Handball Federation, a perfectly private organization, have the authority to prescribe mandatory medical procedures for people attending or playing handball matches?
NB: The obvious answer is It doesn’t.
Governments have signalled over the last three years that they are quite happy for private companies and NGOs to do as they like in this regard and essentially do their dirty promotion and enforcement work for them.
And these international sports federations are completely unaccountable to anyone but themselves. Not unlike the WHO or UN. They have these pseudo democratic processes that elevate a delegate from each country to a global council which then sets rules for the entire world. And because it’s “democratic” then everyone has to follow their rules.
The moment you open your eyes, it’s impossible not to see the world as just a series of cartels. The pharma cartel, the media cartel, the energy cartel, all the sports cartels, the tech cartels, the banking cartel… etc….
The thing is the IHF really doesn’t have this authority, no more than they can randomly arrest people on premises they happened to rent. It’s neither a sovereign government enforcing some laws on its own territory nor an organization created by sovereign governments which have chosen to delegate certain powers to it. The people behind this may have the chutzpah to try it nevertheless, on the grounds that bullying oftentimes works, but bullying is all they have to support their stance.
They can keep the players out of the tournament which belongs to them, unless there are laws explicitly prohibiting that sort of discrimination.
I don’t know what the laws in Sweden and Poland say in this regard.
Of course, the players can get together and decide to boycott. At this point, they’re insane if they don’t.
After Damar Hamlin, I find it hard to imagine there is any athlete of any note who is not concerned about the vaxxes and certainly don’t want any / any more at this point in time. It only stops when we make it stop.
I don’t think your theory that the IHF is a sovereign government which has automatic exterritoriality in any place it may rent somewhere and is thus not subject to the laws of the countries its operating in and authorized to make up its own laws as it sees fit and enforce them violently is correct. But please feel free to prove me wrong by coming up with something which shows that private associations of businesspeople do actually have these rights in Sweden and Poland.
Re private companies setting mandates…
The situation is really bad in Australia where it’s likely millions have been impacted by jab mandates set by state governments, businesses, sports clubs etc.
In regard to companies, I’m challenging the jab mandate set by Westpac Bank for its employees, a jab mandate which is still in place.
See my email to the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Westpac Group: Westpac and Covid jab mandates – why were employees denied a voluntary decision on this medical intervention? 4 January 2023.
Well maybe, but where were they when people including children were being forced, coerced and gaslighted into being injected and generally vilified if they weren’t.
Most sports governing bodies are inept, corrupt because they are monopolies. Competition is the only thing that can keep them on their toes. There is little to prevent a group of professionals setting up a more democratic leaner and meaner organisation and ensure by a comprehensive constitution that the tendency to corruption and being captured by bad actors is democratically blocked. Two competing governing bodies in a region or country tend to keep each other a bit more efficient and honest. Perhaps Iceland should make a start.
Now the “Long march through the institutions’ is complete the march through sporting associations seems well underway as the England squad demonstrated in Quatar.