“Return of track and trace creates ‘many more problems’” – Asking customers to sign in when they enter pubs and restaurants is set to resume on April 12th, when the hospitality trade begins to reopen, and all customers will have to sign in, not just the lead booker, and the rule will apply to outdoor customers as well, including beer gardens and pavements
“Does the data support renewing Covid emergency powers?” – Kate Andrews takes a look at the key data from the Spectator‘s Data Hub. Infections, hospitalisations and deaths are all down and over half the UK’s adult population have been vaccinated
“Scottish Covid adviser’s vaccine confusion” – Steerpike recounts how Scottish public health advisor Devi Sridhar went off script, claiming, on limited evidence, that the AstraZeneca vaccine doesn’t work against the South African variant
“Why we must never lockdown [sic] again” – Gary Sidley gives four key reasons why lockdown policies must be consigned to the “skeleton cupboard labelled ‘Cataclysmic Government blunders never to be repeated'”
“A sketch of the week” – Bournbrook Magazine looks back at the week gone by, with illustrations by their new cartoonist Crid
“A dark day for democracy” – Michael Curzon reflects on the extension of the Coronavirus Act for the Conservative Woman, and praises the 76 MPs who voted ‘No’
“Vaccine passports to visit the pub? Sense, gentlemen, please” – “If this measure is introduced,” writes Michael Fahey in the Conservative Woman, “I hope the pub/restaurant/hospitality trade kick it to the kerb and at the next election, I hope the electorate boots this authoritarian Government into oblivion”
“Lockdown – the Big Lie that will never end” – “There can no longer be any doubt that the position in Britain and elsewhere has nothing to do with any medical emergency, and probably never did,” writes Daniel Miller at the Conservative Woman
“Weekly summary of Yellow Card reporting” – As of March 14th 2021, 38,084 Yellow Cards had been reported for the Pfizer jab (10.9 million first doses administered) and 78,223 for the AstraZeneca jab (13.7 million first doses)
“Is Covid racist?” – Of course a virus can’t be racist, but some ethnic communities have reportedly suffered higher infection rates than others. Calvin Robinson, Kawsar Zaman and Nikita Malik discuss why in this broadcast from Bright Blue TV
“Matt Hancock grilled by Tory MPs over Vaccine effects data” – In an exchange in Parliament, Hancock was asked if the NHS has data on how many people have died from Covid in NHS hospitals three weeks after receiving their first dose of the Covid vaccine. He struggled to answer
“Escape from Lockdown” – In the latest episode of Escape from Lockdown, Alex speaks to barrister Francis Hoar about his courtroom battles against lockdown
“Lockdown forever” – The latest Spiked podcast asks if we have let our freedoms slip away for good
“Sweden: more freedom, less death” – Sweden famously avoided strict lockdowns, Spiked notes, and it also experienced a smaller increase in overall mortality last year than most of its European neighbours
“Nation’s first ‘vaccine passport’ coming to New York” – Vaccine passports are coming to the Big Apple, the New York Post reports. Dubbed the ‘Excelsior Pass’, it was launched yesterday and Madison Square Garden will be using it from next week
“Why is everyone in Texas not dying?” – Writing for AIER, Jeffrey A. Tucker takes a look back at the fear-mongering predictions that were made when Texas ended its lockdown. He is he says “sitting at a bar in Texas, surrounded by mask-less people, looking at folks on the streets walking around like life is normal”
“Islamic charity ‘put Batley cartoon row teacher in danger’ by outing him” – Camilla Turner in the Telegraph reports on the Free Speech Union’s letter to the Charity Commission complaining about the Purpose of Life, a Muslim charity that doxxed the teacher at the centre of the Batley Grammar School row
Ben Habib, co-founder of Unlocked, agrees with Mike that Boris Johnson should be replaced: “This Prime Minister has no vision…we are squandering all of the benefit of the terrific vaccination programme, we should be rolling back lockdown quite aggressively.”@Iromg | @benhabib6pic.twitter.com/f3NxDnI25i
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