News Round-Up

“Will we pass the Boris roadmap tests?” – It’s hard to tell, says Tom Chivers, as he estimates the probabilities of passing the tests at each of the four stages for UnHerd
“NHS Test and Trace was doomed from the start” – Make all the tweaks you want, says Ross Clark in the Telegraph, the Test and Trace system is never going to work in a liberal society where the disease is already widespread
“Medical chiefs call for ban on junk food advertising in sport after Covid death rates linked to UK obesity” – The Telegraph reports that the British Medical Association is settings its sights on sports advertising
“Summer holidays abroad on cards as Grant Shapps ‘hopeful’ about talks with other countries” – Grant Shapps says holidays might be on this year, according to the Telegraph. Don’t get your hopes up
“The closest thing to a COVID ‘cure’?” – The Daily Mail reports on a combination antibody drug, which according to a study, cuts the risk of COVID-19 hospitalisation and death by 87%
“Covid will cause ‘tens of thousands of deaths’ every year, SAGE adviser says” – Pessimistic assessment from SAGE member Professor Andrew Hayward, as reported in MailOnline
“Very special day’ as Darlington couple reunited at care home” – Tragic story about an old married couple who were prevented from seeing each other for a year thanks to the ban on visitors to care home
“Covid in Scotland: Sturgeon objective ‘to eliminate’ virus” – Sturgeon has said that Scotland’s objective must be to “eliminate” coronavirus, the BBC reports. Might she be looking to divert attention away from something?
“It’s time to take a step back and check our moral compass” – We need to pause, reflect and reset out moral compass if we are to regain our freedoms, say VoxPost
“A year of COVID-19 lockdown is putting kids at risk of allergies, asthma and autoimmune diseases” – A year raising children in isolated and sanitised environments has put them at great risk, Professor Byram W. Bridle writes in the Conversation
“The ethics and metaphysics of money” – Rishi Sunak’s strategy will be to inflate the Covid debt away, writes Sean Walsh in the Article, and this has profound and long-lasting implications
“UK summons EU officials over ‘false’ vaccine claims” – Now that the EU has admitted the UK didn’t in fact restrict exports of the vaccine, FCO officials have asked their EU counterparts to explain themselves, according to the Spectator’s Steerpike
“Vaccines are testing Central Europe’s loyalties to the EU” – William Nattrass, again in the Spectator, reckons the debacle will cost the EU dearly
“The EU’s ruthless vaccine protectionism” – The EU’s behaviour over vaccines shows it is not really very interested in international cooperations, says Xin Du in Spiked
“Lockdown generation: Europe’s students in despair as pandemic lingers” – A Euronews report on the toll lockdown has taken on European students
“Concern mounts over censorship of Canadian doctors” – After a video of doctors listing reasons not to be afraid of COVID-19 was censored by YouTube, iPolitics Canada reports on growing concern about the censorship of anyone who dissents from Covid orthodoxy. The video in question has been reposted here
“Lockdowns wrecked democracy around the world” – A round-the-world tour of the damage lockdowns have done to democracy by James Bovard at AIER
“Fauci and the communists” – Fauci has delivered a propaganda coup for the communist regime in Beijing by sharing a platform with a Chinese Communist Party ‘health expert’, writes Jordan Schachtel for AIER
“Doctors, healthcare workers to be punished for anti-vaxx Covid claims” – Slightly misleading headline in this item from the Sydney Morning Herald. It reports that doctors “risk regulatory action if they spout false or deceptive misinformation to patients or on social media”
“How you can tell they’re lying about Covid” – Watch Dr. William Briggs on the Patrick Coffin Show discussing how experts deal in “fallacy, half-truth and presupposition”, secure in the knowledge that MSM viewers are ill-equipped to detect their lies
“The Charts That Tell the Covid Story” – The latest episode of the Tom Woods Show, in which he speaks to Ian Miller about his charts which tell the story of the failure of the lockdown policy
Julie Hartley-Brewer defends Piers Morgan on her talkRADIO show

"Wasn't Piers Morgan simply speaking his truth?"

Julia defends Piers Morgan after the presenter quit Good Morning Britain following complaints over his comments on Meghan and Harry.

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