- “Second vaccinations stepped up in bid to end Covid restrictions” – Those over the age of 25 will be offered the vaccine from next week, the Telegraph reports
- “Failure to see GPs means 35,000 people not diagnosed with Alzheimers this year” – Experts have warned that over the last year GPs have missed the opportunity to diagnose nearly 35,000 people suffering with dementia due to poor access to surgeries, the Telegraph reports
- “School leaders say pupils should be vaccinated as matter of priority” – A group of school leaders is calling for pupils to be vaccinated as a matter of priority, the Guardian reports
- “Holidays abroad: many Britons plan to press on despite government advice” – Many Brits are pressing ahead with their holidays regardless of which list their country of travel might end up on, according to the Guardian
- “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
- “Dominic Sandbrook has a warning for us all” – “When we lose our liberties it takes years to win them back,” the historian says in the Daily Mail
- “I’m horrified at how people have adapted to being locked down’” – Lionel Shriver tells the Telegraph of her serious concerns about how Covid has been used “to take hold of every aspect of our lives”
- “Lord Sumption: ‘I have observed that lockdown scepticism goes with high levels of education’” – The Telegraph‘s Phillip Johnston interviews Jonathan Sumption about the Government’s Covid response and why he is standing firm behind his anti-lockdown beliefs
- “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
- “Portuguese microbiologist accuses British authorities of lying about cases of Nepal mutation of Indian variant” – Microbiologist João Paulo Gomes says the British Government is “lying” about the Nepal mutation of the Indian variant, according to the Portugal Resident
- “It puts your entire life in turmoil: the human cost of Portugal’s move to the amber list” – The Telegraph interviews some of those affected by Portugal’s move to the amber list
- “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
- The Lies Exposed by the Numbers: Fear, Misdirection, & Institutional Deaths (An Investigative Report) – Julius Ruechel delves into the data to data to shine a light on the errors in Canada’s pandemic response
- “Fauci now asks for proof of lab origins in remarkable reversal” – The Post Millennial has details of another Fauci U-turn
- “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
- “Why Is There Such Reluctance to Discuss Natural Immunity?” – The AIER’s Jon Sanders puzzles over why “there so much interest in downplaying or erasing natural immunity?”
- “The Pentagon funnelled $39million to a charity that funded Wuhan lab” – The Daily Mail reveals just how much money the Pentagon handed to the EcoHealth Alliance, the charity that funded the controversial coronavirus research at the Wuhan lab
- “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
- Number plate tech to catch Melbourne drivers fleeing for regional Victoria – Police will use specialist number plate technology to detect vehicles from Melbourne in regional Victoria as part of their operation to enforce COVID-19 restrictions, 9News reports
- “Exclusive: How amateur sleuths broke the Wuhan Lab story and embarrassed the media” – It wasn’t “journalists or spies or scientists” who uncovered the evidence that made the ‘lab-leak’ theory impossible to ignore, Newsweek says. It was “a group of amateur sleuths”
- “Are we supposed to be grateful for our basic fundamental democratic freedoms?” – Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick thinks “it’s not unreasonable to wait a bit longer” to travel. Julia Hartley-Brewer begged to differ
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