News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
'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.
Holidaymakers jetting off today face airport chaos, with delays to flights and queues stretching outside the terminals. Airports laid off almost half their staff during the pandemic and failed to replace them in time.
The International Air Transport Association – which represents 290 airlines in 117 countries comprising around 83% of global air traffic – has called for the end of face mask requirements for air travel.
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