“Inflation is the biggest threat to Boris” – “Rising prices have been destroying governments for a hundred years,” writes Mathew Lynn in the Spectator, following the news that inflation increased in April from 0.7% to 1.5%. “It would be complacent to imagine this one will be the exception”
“Fearful forties turn their backs on AstraZeneca vaccine” – According to the Times, up to half of people in their forties are failing to turn up for their vaccine appointments in some cities in Scotland amid concerns about the AstraZeneca jab
“Beware the twin fanatics of Net Zero and Zero Covid” – The Telegraph‘s Madeline Grant points out the similarities between ‘Net Zero’ and ‘Zero Covid’ advocates. Both “impractical projects whose costs will fall disproportionately on the poorest”
“Knee-jerk lockdowns are not the answer” – A leader in the Telegraph calling for an end to distancing measures and lockdowns as the default answer to any increase in infections
“Jabs for the boys” – Molly Kingsley reminds readers of the Critic that “it has – or perhaps had – been a well established principle of bioethics and law that questions of child welfare should not be defined by reference to adult preferences, but instead require clear consideration of the benefits to and harms for the child”
“The myth of vaccine hesitancy” – “The panic over vaccine hesitancy is just the latest expression of our establishment’s tendency towards authoritarianism,” according to Fraser Myers at Spiked
“A death knell for degrees” – “A monochrome, twilight form of university life has dragged on for five terms and cannot be allowed to go on any longer,” writes Professor Robert Tombs in the Daily Mail, responding to the plans of some universities to keep online teaching for another year
“Not worried about the jab? You should be” – “The problem with the COVID-19 vaccines is that we simply do not have enough information about their side-effects,” says Harry Dougherty for the Conservative Woman
“Never have so many become so blinded to the truth” – “If you are observing the official narrative, you have seen the pattern,” writes Nicholas Orlando at the Conservative Woman. “You were well prepared for the approaching about-turn on restriction easing”
“Asymptomatic Transmission: A dangerous idea” – Asymptomatic transmission has driven much of lockdown policy says the Rev Phill Sacre in his latest video, but it has “caused something far worse – a change in our mindset”
“In Asia, a COVID-19 resurgence leads to new restrictions” – Euronews reports that a number of countries in Asia are finding that “the virus remains resilient, despite strict mask mandates, case tracing, mass testing and wider deployment of the newest weapon against it – vaccinations”
“The Moralisation of COVID-19” – The AIER’s Ethan Yang lauds the research undertaken by Dr. Maja Graso demonstrating that the COVID-19 response has been ‘moralised’, and is therefore uninfluenced by any cost-benefit analysis
“Singapore says ‘no truth’ to Kejriwal’s new variant claims” – The BBC reports that Singapore’s authorities have rejected claims made in Delhi that a new “Singapore strain” that is “extremely dangerous for children” has been found in the city state
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