News Round-Up

“Met chief faces call to quit as police clash with vigil women” – Cressida Dick is under fire after the excessive police reaction to the vigil for Sarah Everard on Clapham Common, the Telegraph reports
“The policing of lockdown is failing” – The police response to the vigil has exposed another lockdown failure, says the Spectator
“Covid: Judge rules man with learning difficulties should be vaccinated” – BBC item on a court case in Manchester in which a judge sided with medical specialists to say that a man with severe learning-difficulties should receive the vaccine, overriding the objections of his family
“Half of all freelancers planning to quit self-employment” – Lockdowns, and new tax rules, is nailing the coffin shut on people’s dream of being their own boss, the Telegraph reports
“As Britain’s Covid vaccinations gather pace, questions loom large over jabs for pregnant women” – Should pregnant women be given the jab? The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation is expected to make a recommendation soon, according to the Telegraph
“Lockdown makes me see red mist of communism – we need courage instead, says John Longworth” – Tremendous soundness from the Chairman of the Independent Business Network in the Express
“Are doctors failing to record bad reactions to Covid jabs?” – An anonymous piece in the Conservative Woman, with concerning implications
“What is an anti-vaxxer” – Dr. Malcolm Kendrick’s latest blog ruminates on what it means to be ‘anti-‘ or a ‘denier’, or a ‘sceptic’
“James and Laura’s Chinwag #15” – Watch James Delingpole and Laura Perrins’ latest chinwag, where they give it “both barrels on the subject of lockdown and Boris Johnson’s useless regime”
“The New Normal: Lockdowns, Nervous Juries and Banned Books” – Latest release of the Bournbrook podcast, discussing Covid in the workplace among much else
“The end of experts, the rejection of woke and the rise of the working classes” – The latest episode of Irreverend invites reverend Phil Sacre to discuss some optimistic predictions about the breakdown of the lockdown narrative and the end of the reign of experts
“My €25 Covid jab surprise” – Jeremy Clarke relates his experience of getting the AstraZeneca jab in France for the Spectator
“France to trial digital vaccine passport scheme” – Healthcare IT News reports that France is piloting a vaccine passport scheme for passengers travelling on Air France
“CDC vs. common sense” – The CDC’s guidance is at odds with common sense, writes Paul E. Alexander at AIER. Americans must understand that it is just guidance and nothing more than that
“Vaccinations and stimulus boost consumer sentiment in early March” – Robert Hughes at the AIER looks at a Consumer Survey which shows rising consumer confidence
“We want to get our summer back!’“: – Oklahoma is also bringing restrictions to an end, according to the Daily Mail. Oh what a beautiful morning, oh what a beautiful day…
“Lockdown sceptic Scott Atlas: ‘The big issue exposed by Covid is civil liberties’” – The lockdown sceptic heavyweight has lunch with the Financial Times. Outside, but only at the reporter’s insistence
“Thousands march in Montreal to protest against wearing masks” – Thousands gathered in Montreal to protest Covid restrictions, the Montreal Gazette reports, with fines dished out, some arrests, for “non-compliance with sanitary measures”
“‘Quad’ alliance to distribute one billion doses of vaccine to counter Chinese influence” – The US, Australia, India and Japan are opening up a new round of vaccine diplomacy, according to the Telegraph
“WHO is set to reject Wuhan lab link to Covid outbreak and instead point to source being an animal market” – A trailer of the WHO’s forthcoming report into Covid’s origins in the Mail on Sunday. No surprises.
“Caged pangolins and blood-soaked bats for sale in markets” – These markets continue, Evgeny Lebedev says in the Mail on Sunday
“Thousands in Bucharest protest against virus vaccine” – Footage of last week’s rally which saw around 3,000 protesters converge outside the parliament building in Bucharest, Romania
Exactly a year ago yesterday, Sir Patrick Vallance laid out the Government’s eminently sensible strategy for dealing with the virus. What went wrong?

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