“A ‘new level of baffling’ as Scots are banned from Manchester” – Scots are not allowed to go to Manchester or Salford for “non-essential reasons”, as they are virus hotspots, but they are free to go to Dundee, which is also a virus hotspot, according to the Telegraph
“Against Vaccine Passports” – A directory of businesses that believe the enforcement of identity barriers or passports for entry will create division and discrimination
“The global elites’ exemption from travel restrictions will become a problem for the Tories” – “There is no ‘for all’ about the society that our leaders are building in the wake of Covid,” writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph about the Government’s decision to allow in 2,500 UEFA VIPs to attend the final fo the Euros without having to quarantine. “Rather it is one in which the gap between the powerful and people over whom they wield their power is growing wider than it has been for decades”
“The lockdown lobby” – Spiked’s Tom Slater examines how COVID-19 exposed the conformism of Britain’s media in his contribution to the People’s Lockdown Inquiry
“We are hostages to Government fear” – “Having once offered itself as the strong, paternalistic shield against Covid, the Government will find it hard to back away,” writes Timandra Harkness in UnHerd
“The roadmap to enslavement” – “It is necessary to understand all this in exclusively political terms and abandon any pretence to the contrary,” writes Daniel Miller in the Conservative Woman. “The ‘delay’ to the end of restrictions is not a delay; freedom won’t arrive in July either”
“Our neverending lockdown” – In the latest podcast from Spiked, contributors Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers wonder if they are ever likely to get their old lives back
“A whole new level of lunacy” – Latest episode of the Planet Normal podcast from the Telegraph in which Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan discuss the risk of a winter lockdown with guest Iain Duncan Smith
“Truth and Deception: The Conscience of Public Health” – In his latest podcast, Omar Khan interviews Dr Tess Lawrie, Director of the Evidence-Based Medicine Consultancy, about her enthusiasm for ivermectin and her “stand against the flight from facts on the vaccine front”
“Spain follows France in lifting outdoor face mask rules” – As of June 26th, it will no longer be mandatory in Spain to wear a mask while outdoors, Euronews reports. The rule was first introduced in May 2020 and applies to everyone over the age of six
“One in four Covid patients hospitalised while vitamin D deficient die” – A study carried out in a hospital in Galilee in Israel found that COVID-19 patients are more likely to die if vitamin D-deficient, the Times of Israel says. Twenty-six per cent of vitamin D-deficient Covid patients died, compared to 3% of the rest
“The Origin of SARS-CoV-2” – David R. Henderson and Charles L. Hooper take a close look at the evidence for AIER and conclude that the ‘lab-leak’ theory is the best fit
“Uganda imposes new anti-coronavirus measures to stem raging pandemic” – Uganda’s president Yowreri Museveni has introduced sweeping new anti-coronavirus measures including a ban on all vehicular movement except for essential workers, according to Reuters, to help curb a second wave of COVID-19
“Prolonged lockdown not solution to end pandemic” – The Mokokchung Chamber of Commerce in India has called for a fresh approach to COVID-19, according to the Morung Express, stating that “the price of flattening the curve should not be costlier than the pandemic itself, or the cure worse than the problem”
“Tough Questions and Sense-Checking” – Reflections from Australian economist Cameron K. Murray on debate and censorship in discussions about lockdown, following a TV appearance that did not go well
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