News Round-Up
28 May 2023
by Toby Young
France has banned short-haul flights where people are 'able to get a train instead'. Banning convenience to 'save the planet' – get used to it guys, this is just the start if they can get away with it.
"No flying by 2050" – the reality of what Net Zero really means still seems to take people by surprise, but perhaps they are now starting to wake up, writes Professor Norman Fenton.
'National treasure' Stephen Fry has been jetting around the world creating a new documentary to lecture us about climate change and how we all need to stop using so much fossil fuel.
Spain, Croatia and even Italy have ended their Covid-era travel restrictions, but the USA is an international outlier in continuing to require visitors to be vaccinated, despite no evidence this is reducing spread.
The Sunderland Airshow has been cancelled indefinitely "due to climate change" following three years of being cancelled "due to Covid" in the latest sign that pandemic measures are morphing into climate ones.
In Thailand, our writer finds a country where face masks seem to have become a permanent feature, enshrined in the cultural etiquette. Is the population now doomed to eternal Covid theatre?
Virgin Atlantic is allowing male cabin crew and pilots to wear skirts and women to wear men's suits so staff can “express their true identity” at work.
The U.S. Government will today announce the end from Sunday of the requirement for people entering the country to test negative for COVID-19. No word, however, on ending the ban on the unvaccinated.
Coronavirus rules put in place by foreign countries are to blame for delays at major UK airports, the Chairman of Parliament's Transport Select Committee has said. Do the countries ever intend to lift them?
Face masks will no longer be mandatory in airports and on flights in Europe from May 16th amid the easing of coronavirus restrictions in European countries.
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