“Matt Hancock’s affair footage was from his office CCTV” – Glen Owen at the Mail On Sunday looks into how the story broke. Apparently, it was a whistle-blower in the Department of Health who contacted opponents of the former Health Secretary’s stance on lockdowns
“Entire schools closed owing to Delta variant” – A number of schools in the North of England have closed completely in response to rising numbers of Delta cases, the Telegraph reports
“Perhaps the Great British public aren’t terrified, quivering supplicants after all” – The British people’s acquiescence to lockdowns was a result not of fear, Janet Daley suggests in the Telegraph, but of their sense of social responsibility. And Matt Hancock “betrayed the sacred moral trust that the nation had accepted as its duty”
“Famous journal accused of doing China’s dirty work ” – In the Mail on Sunday, Ian Birrell writes about how the Lancet denounced the lab leak theory as a conspiracy without evidence and praised the Chinese response to COVID-19
“Hey, Hancock, leave those kids alone” – Gillian Dymond at the Conservative Woman with a message for Matt Hancock who, as Health Secretary, looked favourably on plans to vaccinate children
“The real crisis will begin when lockdown ends” – “History will show that it was lockdown – rather than Covid – which snapped the NHS’s, and Britain’s, spine,” writes Luke Perry in Bournbrook Magazine
“Borders, Boats and Buffoons” – The Bournbrook contributors – Michael Curzon, S.D. Wickett, and Luke Perry – take stock of the latest border restrictions and, of course, the Matt Hancock affair in the latest episode of the Week in Review
“Freedom March in London” – Dan Astin Gregory reports live from yesterday’s march in London for his PandemicPodcast. Further coverage is available on his YouTube channel here
“Has lockdown changed us forever?” – Aris Roussinos, Helen Thompson, Maurice Glasman and Mary Harrington joined Freddie Sayers on UnLocked TV to discuss how lockdown has changed society
“Mallorca probes COVID-19 outbreak among hundreds of partying students” – Authorities in Mallorca are investigating a coronavirus outbreak involving more than 600 students celebrating the end of term, Reuters reports. At least 1,000 students are reportedly in isolation, and some are showing mild symptoms of COVID-19
“Delta variant ‘spreading rapidly’ from Lisbon to rest of Portugal” – According to Portugal’s National Health Institute, the Delta variant represents 51% of cases in the country’s mainland, Reuters reports, showing the variant is “spreading rapidly” as it happened in Britain
“Health Ministry mulling outdoor mask recommendation, restrictions on gatherings” – Faced with increasing numbers of Covid cases, Israeli health officials are considering re-imposing the requirement to wear masks outdoors, according to the Times of Israel, and requiring non-vaccinated people to provide a negative test result before entering certain venues
“Russia reports highest COVID-19 death toll this year” – Yesterday Russia reported that 619 people died due to COVID-19 within the previous 24 hours, which is, says Euronews, the highest Russian toll since December
“Re-Evaluating Mask Mandates Part II: Exposing the ‘Assumption-Led Claim’” – In the second part of C2C Journal’s re-evaluation of mask mandates, Masha Krylova takes a critical look at the evidence for their effectiveness and for their adverse effects, concluding that it is “time to unmask”
“China rewrites the history of COVID-19” – The Los Angeles Times reports on how the Chinese Government is punishing those who sought to document what really happened in the early days of COVID-19
“What’s Going On Under the Masks?” – Writing for AIER, Robert E. Wright considers the impact of dental care missed as a result of lockdowns
“When can conservatives disobey the law?” – “The time has come,” writes Dr. Rocco Loiacono in the Spectator Australia, “to let our parliamentarians know we as conservatives will no longer tolerate being taken for granted”
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