“Government accused of ushering in national ID cards ‘by the backdoor’ after jab passport deal” – Global IT firm Entrust received £250,000 to provide computing software for Covid status certificates. According to the i, the company has helped roll out ID systems in Albania, Ghana and Malaysia and suggested that vaccine passports could be used to “consider a national ID strategy” and “become part of the infrastructure of the new normal”
“Matt Hancock: PM was ‘stressed’ when he called me hopeless” – Matt Hancock insists that he is not embarrassed by Dominic Cummings’s publishing messages about him from the Prime Minister, the Times says, ascribing the “f***ing hopeless” comment to “stress”
“Covid: Lifting outdoor centres school trip ban ‘absolute joke’” – Primary Schools in Wales may now go on overnight trips the BBC reports, but the about-turn, three weeks before the end of term, has been described as an “absolute joke” by Clive Richley who runs an outdoor activities centre
“Sight loss: Lengthy waiting lists ‘cost me my driving licence’” – Former teacher Dianne Gill believes she would still be able to drive if she had not had to wait 11 months to see a specialist, the BBC says, and she fears the situation would get worse for thousands of others due to backlogs that have developed
“Oxford Road hotel quarantine facility to close” – The Penta Hotel quarantine service on Oxford Road is to close at the end of this month, the Reading Chronicle reports, amid council concerns about the spread between residents, staff and the local community
“Flawed modelling is condemning Britain to lockdown” – “Again and again, worst-case scenarios are presented with absurd precision,” writes Matt Ridley in the Telegraph. “And the problem goes further than Britain’s slow reopening”
“Church worship restricted, devil worship fine” – Roger Watson notes in the Conservative Woman that “Christian worship may be conducted only under strict and completely unnecessary restrictions” whereas heavy metal fans were permitted to crowd into a concert in Castle Donington over the weekend
“The Innova scandal Part 4: Questions the Government must answer” – In the fourth and final instalment of the Conservative Woman’s investigation into the Innova lateral flow test, Sonia Elijah examines the record of the Chinese-American owner Dr Charles Huang
“Hancock pulls the plug on the National Health Service” – In the Conservative Woman, Kate Dunlop picks Matt Hancock up on his suggestion that treatment for Covid on the NHS could depend on vaccination status, which undermines Aneurin Bevan’s “great and novel undertaking”
“Rachel Elnaugh on the Delingpod” – Dragon’s Den investor Rachel Elnaugh joins James on the latest Delingpod to discuss never ending lockdowns, tyranny, vaccines and more
“French nightclubs will reopen on July 9th, but you’ll need a health pass” – Nightclubs will soon be allowed to open their doors again across the Channel, but anyone looking for a night out will need a health pass attesting they have either been fully vaccinated, have been tested over the previous 72 hours or have recovered from COVID-19, according to Euronews
“Swiss experts play down risk of Delta virus variant” – Christoph Berger, head of the Federal Commission for Vaccinations, has said that Switzerland is well prepared for the Delta variant and there is no reason for particular concern, SwissInfo reports
“Covid surges, but Russians resist coaxing and compulsion to get vaccinated” – Vaccine uptake remains low in Russia, Reuters reports, despite surges in Covid cases, and despite offers of cash payments for getting jabbed and threats of dismissal for refusing. The Kremlin now complains of “nihilism”
“Did Economists Really Favour the Corona-Lockdowns?” – Writing for Real Clear Markets, Jeffrey Tucker debunks the idea, widely put about in the media, that there was a pro-lockdown consensus among economists
“Half of Zimbabweans fell into extreme poverty during Covid” – The World Bank has estimated that the number of extreme poor in Zimbabwe has grown by 1.3 million since the pandemic began, according to the Guardian, with children bearing the brunt of the misery
“WHO to discuss Olympics COVID-19 risks with Japan, IOC” – The World Health Organization said on Monday it would discuss managing COVID-19 risks with Japanese authorities and the International Olympic Committee, according to Reuters, after organisers announced some spectators would be permitted to attend the Tokyo Games.
“Addendum: competing interests and the origins of SARS-CoV-2” – Peter Daszak has added some detail about about his competing interests to the February 2020 letter in the Lancet affirming support for the scientists in China and restating his conclusion that the virus came from nature and pointing out that he is recused from the Lancet COVID-19 Commission’s work on the origins of the virus
“Should you get vaccinated?” – Steve Kirsch, the Executive Director of COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund, examines the data on vaccine safety at TrialSiteNews
“mRNA Inventor Robert Malone backs up Professor Byram Bridle” – In the latest episode of Trish Wood is Critical, Dr. Robert Malone and Dr. Byram Bridle go after the critics who try to silence anyone who raises concerns about vaccine safety
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