“Gove Pinged by Covid App After Portugal Match” – Michael Gove had to abandon a meeting with the PM after the track and trace app told him that he had been in contact with someone who’d tested positive following a trip to Porto to see the Champions League final with his son, Guido Fawkes reports. He won’t be doing the 10 days self-isolation, however, but testing every day for a week instead as part of a pilot scheme
“Britain must stick to the June 21 timetable” – “The decision to reclassify Portugal as a travel destination from green to amber was the first significant step backwards since Britain started to unlock,” says this leader in the Telegraph. “We were told that the exit plan was cautious but irreversible. On this occasion it was not”
“‘Re-opening anxiety’ is a middle class concern” – “A new pandemic is upon us,” says UnHerd‘s Amy Jones. “A pandemic of opinion pieces written by liberals complaining of reopening anxiety”
“Top British scientists linked to Covid lab cover-up” – Two of Britain’s leading scientists feature in Fauci’s recently published emails, Neville Hodgkinson reports in the Conservative Woman, and are implicated in the suppression of the lab leak theory: Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, and Sir Patrick Vallance, the UK Government’s Chief Scientific Advisor
“The Left’s crocodile tears over wrecked education” – Writing in the Conservative Woman, Gary Oliver takes the Labour party, the teaching unions and the Guardian to task for only now professing their concern about lost education having spent months arguing that schools should be closed
“Blow your own trumpet in a full body mask” – A marketing message from ‘Musicscam’ about a new range of face coverings designed for wind musicians, published by Frank Palmer in the Conservative Woman
“If you tolerate this then your children will be next” – In the latest episode of the Pandemic podcast, Dan Astin Gregory responds to the news that the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has authorised the Pfizer jab for 12-15 year-olds. “Is it likely the benefits will outweigh the risks?” he asks
“Your Government is Spying on You” – Big Brother Watch’s Silkie Carlo appears on the Triggernometry podcast and tells hosts Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster about the far-reaching civil liberties implications of the Government’s response to Covid
“The shameful censorship of the lab-leak theory” – In this week’s Spiked podcast, Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers dissect the ins and outs of the lab-leak theory, asking why Big Tech were censoring it
“Putin opens Russia for ‘vax tourism’ with foreigners paying for jab” – Vladimir Putin has told officials to prepare to open Russia for ‘vaccine tourism’ whereby foreigners travel to Russia to have the Sputnik V jab, MailOnline reports. Visitors will be able to get the vaccines from July
“Never let a plague go to waste” – Writing in the Toronto Sun, Victor Davis Hanson highlights how the powerful are seeking to take advantage of the pandemic
“Ican obtains over 3,000 pages of Tony Fauci’s emails” – Highlights from the Fauci emails, collated by the Informed Consent Action Network, the group that filed the Freedom of Information Act requests to get them released
“COVID-19 vaccine status a private affair” – A U.S. poll discovered that vaccinated Americans are more afraid to eat inside a restaurant or to travel overseas than the unvaccinated. “This poll explains a lot,” writes Cheryl K. Chumley in the Washington Times
Julia clashes with Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick who says "it's not unreasonable to wait a bit longer" following latest government travel restrictions.
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