- “Lockdown lifting ‘cannot be accelerated to July 5th’” – The Telegraph understands from senior Government sources that the country is “probably not in the place” to unlock at the two-week review stage
- “All kids aged 16 and 17 to be offered Covid jab before school starts in September” – People aged 16 and 17 are set to be offered a vaccine before they head back to school in September, according to the Sun, subject to the approval of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation
- “We are injecting funds to restore Britain’s status as a scientific superpower” – “I cannot think of a time in the last 100 years when the entire population of this country has been so deeply and so obviously indebted to science – and to scientists,” says Boris Johnson in the Telegraph, heralding the launch of a new outfit, to be headed by Sir Patrick Vallance, which will boost investment in the scientific sector
- “Pensions raid to pay for Covid pandemic” – The Treasury is considering ways to claw back cash from pensioners to help pay for the ruinous lockdowns, the Telegraph says
- “Government ordered to hand over plans on how NHS would cope if overwhelmed by pandemic” – The Information Commissioner’s Office has ordered the Department of Health and Social Care to hand over “pandemic influenza briefing papers”, the Telegraph reports, in a move likely to raise questions about whether Britain was sufficiently prepared for COVID-19
- “Andy Burnham rages at ‘hypocrite’ Nicola Sturgeon over travel ban” – Andy Burnham branded the SNP leader a “hypocrite” and demanded compensation for holidaymakers and businesses affected by her ban on travellers from Manchester to Scotland, MailOnline reports
- “Asthma inhalers can speed up Covid recovery by three days” – MPs have been told that doctors prescribing inhalers have seen the recovery time cut by as much as three days, according to MailOnline
- “Ministers say PM had ‘up to date’ data before delaying Freedom Day” – MailOnline reports that Justice Secretary Robert Buckland has dismissed claims that Matt Hancock failed to disclose crucial data in the run up to the decision to delay unlocking
- “Head of Independent Sage to launch international climate change group” – Sir David King is to be the head of a new Climate Crisis Advisory Group, according to the Guardian. He hopes to replicate the success of Independent Sage
- “Our freedoms are at the mercy of gloomy modellers” – “It is shocking that decisions affecting thousands of jobs and millions of lives were taken on the basis of dubious, incomplete evidence,” says Ross Clark in the Telegraph
- “Soldiers of faith, take a sword to the Covid rulebook” – “If all the faiths banded together and as one declared that they would ignore the Covid regulations that threaten to destroy them, they would form a mighty army which could, as in the past, move mountains,” says Liz Hodgkinson in the Conservative Woman
- “Revolt!” – Writing for the Conservative Woman, Henry Getley tells the story of the Peasants’ Revolt
- “What I know (and don’t know) about SARS-CoV-2” – An overview from Edward Curtin at Off-Guardian
- “Lockdown, Lib Dems and Leaks” – In the latest episode of the Week in Review, Bournbrook contributors S.D. Wickett and Luke Perry and guest contributor Peter Tutykhin discuss the delay to reopening and Dominic Cummings’s most recent leaks
- “Robin Monotti: A Conversation with Eric Clapton” – Italian architect Robin Monotti talks to Eric Clapton about the musician’s experiences over the past 18 months
- “Meet the secret nomads whose bosses don’t know they’re working abroad” – A Euronews travel feature on people who, having been told to work from home, have chosen to work abroad instead, without telling their employer
- “Delta variant fuels spike in coronavirus cases in Lisbon” – Portuguese authorities have confirmed that it is the Delta variant which is causing cases to rise in Lisbon, Euronews reports
- “Vaccinated tourists, children 0-6, to be allowed into Israel from July 1st” – Israel’s Minister for the Interior has announced that vaccinated tourists, and children up to the age of six will be permitted to enter the country from July 1st, the Jerusalem Post reports. Specifics as to which countries they may come from and which vaccines will be accepted are to follow
- “Ben-Gurion let 2,832 people into Israel without COVID-19 tests on Friday” – Some 2,832 people entered Israel through Ben Gurion International Airport without taking the coronavirus test, according to the Jerusalem Post, due to congestion in the system
- “Three countries ask Israel for Covid vaccines if Palestinians nix deal, source says” – Should the Palestinians decide they don’t want the one million vaccines offered by Israel, Haaretz says that there are three other countries who will happily take them
- “Google And USAID Funded Wuhan Collaborator Peter Daszak’s Virus Experiments For Over A Decade.” – The National Pulse has spotted that Google’s charitable arm and the United States Agency for International Aid also funded gain of function research
- “New Harvard Data (Accidentally) Reveal How Lockdowns Crushed the Working Class While Leaving Elites Unscathed” – In an item for the Foundation for Economic Education, Brad Polumbo highlights a new data analysis from Harvard University, Brown University, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which indicates that lockdowns “devastated workers at the bottom of the financial food chain but left the upper-tier actually better off”
- “Atlanta mayor blames city’s rising violence on lifting of lockdown restrictions” – The Democratic Mayor of Atlanta, Keisha Lance Bottoms, is claiming that the spike in the city’s crime rate should be blamed on the early easing of COVID-19 restrictions in Georgia by the statehouse GOP, the Post Millennial reports
- “The Soviet Union once denied a deadly anthrax lab leak. American scientists backed up the story” – In Yekaterinburg, Russia in 1979, Patients with unexplained pneumonia started showing up in hospitals. U.S. spies picked up clues about a lab leak, but local officials suggested the source was contaminated meat, according to this account published in Nation World News
- “Cuba encouraged by early efficacy results of homegrown COVID-19 vaccine” – Cuba’s Soberana 2 vaccine candidate has shown 62% efficacy with just two of its three doses, according to Reuters
- “Shenzhen airport tightens COVID-19 measures as China logs 30 new cases” – Anyone flying into Shenzhen airport must produce a negative test result that’s no more than 48 hours old, Reuters reports, following the outbreak of new cases in southern China
- “Wuhan Institute of Virology listed as candidate for Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement Prize” – The Chinese Academy of Sciences has listed the Wuhan lab as a candidate for the 2021 Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement Prize, according to the Global Times, and selected “bat woman” Shi Zhengli and director Yuan Zhiming as outstanding contributors
- “State takes testing to ‘a new level’ in fight against Delta COVID-19 strain” – Thousands of people who visited one of Sydney’s biggest shopping centres have been asked to get a COVID-19 test regardless of symptoms, according to the Sydney Morning Herald, as authorities attempt to “flush out” undetected cases of the Delta variant
- “Border worker sacked for refusing COVID-19 vaccination challenges dismissal” – A New Zealand border worker who was fired for refusing the vaccine has taken the case to the Employment Relations Community, Stuff reports, but it has been rejected
- “Melburnians ‘prefer to live elsewhere’, poll finds” – Rita Panahi of Sky News Australia responds to a new poll which shows that a third of Melbourne residents want to escape from Dan Andrews’ tyrannical regime
- “MP Derek Sloan raises concerns about censorship of doctors and scientists” – Canadian politician Derek Sloan uses a press conference on Parliament Hill to provide censored doctors and scientists with a voice. He is joined by Professor Byram Bridle, Dr. Patrick Phillips and Professor Don Welsh
- “People don’t realise the crisis that’s coming” – Phones 4U founder John Caudwell tells Dan Wootton about the economic crisis he sees coming as a result of empty offices and shops
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The two-tier approach to arbitration, justice or anything where simple common sense should apply has now been deliberately inverted. The intention is to confuse and throw the population off balance, a sort of crude update to the C1984 crap of masks, social distancing and the ‘safe and effective.’
Off-com like our judicial system is being run from the outside. There is to be no concession to honesty or decency. In fact if a decision can be made which flouts or inverts common sense, honesty and decency then that is the decision that will be made. Thus, GB News challenging the Off-com decision will simply amount to pissing in the wind although they are absolutely right to have a go.
Kneel’s Davos Britain.
The BBC do it every day and counting over the Climate!
GB News voluntarily agrees to be regulated by Ofcom.
Why?
Well exactly, they had their chance with a proper journalist Mark Steyn, but realised they have no spine.
Clearly, the elite is starting to feel a little bit scared of GB News.
Can’t think why, they’ve killed off all the proper journalists and have Neil Oliver safely confined to Youtube.
When attack comes closer to the enemy the flak increases.
“Will Ofcom turn its guns on ITV in the same way it has GB News? Don’t hold your breath”
It may do but will probably do it while kicking & screaming!
They are an utter disgrace.
A little off-topic but has anyone noticed how Yvette ‘Allo ‘Allo Cooper has aged since 5th July whereas 2TKeir looks like he has not lost a night’s sleep since becoming PM.
2TK is IMHO disconnected from the significance of events as they unfold in the world around him with a total empathy by-pass from birth.
He does not understand and it all goes over his head.
This is why he can keep blathering on as if nothing has happened because to him nothing has.
David Starkey has strongly hinted at the reason why, which I reached some time ago.
Keir-Ching! is on the spectrum. He shows no empathy because he doesn’t “understand” it.
I agree and thought so too.
However, let no one be in any confusion about autstic people.
The high functioning verbal ones are used to disguise and cover up the fact the majority are non-verbal autistics who will need help and care and often residential care for the rest of their lives.
And the numbers keep on increasing and it is a real increase.
The increase has causes and no one cares less to find out what the causes are in order to stop this disaster for children.
I was shocked to learn recently from two people independently that autistic children forced into mainstream classrooms commit suicide.
The two people concerned had that distressing direct experience in their class at two different schools.
How much of that is going on I have no idea and I’ll bet the DfE keeps not records nor statistics of how common it is.
But to encounter two people simultaneously at the same time at the same place who told of each experiencing exactly the same is either a bizarre coincidence or suggests this is more common than anyone realises.
Spot on! It’s the emotionless facial expression that is the giveaway! He just doesn’t ”get it”!
PS 2TK’s insistence the Southport and other ‘riots‘ were by the ‘Far Right‘ is also consistent with his disconnect.
He just does not understand and explains it all away with a dismissive simplistic ‘they’re all Far Right‘ when he was entirely Far Wrong as usual.
Additionally, when he tipped up in Southport to lay his wreath or bunch of flowers or whatever it was it was all clumsily done and so obviously pre-planned and orchestrated as a semi-formal sort of ceremony.
Again, consistent with a man who has no conception of the significance of events happening around him.
He is wholly unable to do anything ex tempore, being incapable of spontaneity.
Everything has to be planned in advance.
This is also consistent with his inability to respond at all to Rishi Sunak’s challenges and questions when they were in a TV debate together.
‘Muppet’ comes to mind but whose hand is it up his arse pulling all the strings?
The Establishment is obviously getting very nervous about GB News.
Leading Labour politicians and Ministers now have no option but to appear on it and be interviewed when previously they could not be bothered.
Let us hope GB News will continue to address the issues other news media do not.
Will other news media ever realise that is major factor in GB News’ success? They probably already have but just carry on regardless as they have always done.
Sue Offcom?