“Free speech: a lockdown on disagreeing” – Toby’s essay in the People’s Lockdown Inquiry, a new collaboration between Claire Fox, Buckingham University and Laurence Fox on the impact of lockdown
“Boris Johnson urged to go the extra mile to cut cancer backlog” – Leading oncologists, the heads of medical colleges and MPs have written to the Prime Minister urging him to do more to tackle a cancer backlog caused by the pandemic, the Times says. Read their letter in the Lancethere
“Boris faces a choice – and it’s not between clubbing and no clubbing” – Henry Hill had long feared that “as the range of activities restricted continued to narrow, so would support for lifting the restrictions”, he says in CAPX. Now he reckons his pessimism was justified
“The G7 and the arrogance of Covid theatre” – “We know that so many of the Covid rituals are pointless,” writes Fraser Myers in Spiked. “And now, thanks to the pictures from the G7, we know that our leaders know these gestures are largely pointless, too”
“Delaying Liberation Day sets a dangerous precedent” – “As we contemplate sliding in to yet another extension of serious legal curtailments to our lives, our livelihoods and our freedom,” says Tory MP Miriam Cates, “It’s time to ask if we have travelled too far down this road”
“The Innova scandal Part 3: The U.S. says ‘Throw the tests in the trash‘” – In a third instalment of her Conservative Woman series investigating the Innova lateral flow test, Sonia Elijah covers the announcement from the FDA last week warning that the performance of the test has not been adequately established and directing the public to throw them them in the bin
“Using weapons of mass deception: Why Covid is Johnson’s Iraq” – “Politicians are a vain lot who yearn for a simple, binary, Manichean issue where they can play a starring Churchillian role,” says Andrew Cadman in the Conservative Woman. “For Johnson and Hancock, it is Covid”
“Susan Michie: Don’t rule out more delays” – UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers interviews Susan Michie, the infamous Government scientist who believes lockdown might not end in July and that face masks could be here forever
“Delta variant having ‘huge impact on vaccine effectiveness’” – Speaking to Euronews, Dr Michael Head, a Senior Research Fellow in Global Health at the University of Southampton, explains that the Indian Delta variant is having a huge impact on vaccine effectiveness in the U.K.
“No more AstraZeneca shots for under-60s” – Greece’s National Vaccination Committee has recommended that the AstraZeneca vaccine should not be administered to people under the age of 60, according to ekathimerini
“Beijing Protests a Lab Leak Too Much” – “The linguistic evidence is overwhelming that Chinese leaders believe the Wuhan Institute of Virology was the source,” says Perry Link, a Professor of Chinese at the University of California, in the Wall Street Journal
“Workers push back against hospitals requiring Covid vaccines” – Despite having lost their case, Jennifer Bridges and other workers at Houston Methodist Hospital in Texas remain steadfast in their belief that their employer’s ‘No Jab, No Job’ policy is wrong, AP news reports
“Chile faces setback to reopening as coronavirus cases soar” – As cases in the country continue to soar Chilean health authorities have said they would extend a COVID-19 emergency until September to allow the Government to continue to impose restrictions, Reuters reports
“The looming medical apartheid” – Bill Muehlenberg sounds a warning in Spectator Australia about the “two-tiered society” that will inevitably result from “the growing demands being made by state and business elites to have mandatory corona vaccinations”
“Press conference of the U.S. Senators” – A recent press conference of U.S. Senators covering mainstream media bias and big tech censorship in reporting on COVID-19 stories and the need for accountability
“Novel coronavirus has a signature never seen in this virus class before” – Sky News Australia’s Sharri Markson speaks to Atossa Therapeutics CEO Dr. Steven Quay who says that SARS-CoV-2 bears a “signature” that’s never been seen in this virus class before and came “completely pre-adapted to humans”
Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology Sunetra Gupta is "starting to despair" as lockdown lifting is set to be put on hold.@SunetraGupta: "R is going to have to come back to 1. We should always have remained open and it's just a tragedy that we are in this position."@JuliaHB1pic.twitter.com/7UTV5yJj7u
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