“Rishi Sunak says Freedom Day will come on July 19th” – Chancellor Rishi Sunak was speaking at a football event with schoolchildren, according to MailOnline, when he said that Freedom day will come on July 19th and he will not tolerate further lockdowns after that. In other words, not on July 5th
“The final straw: how appeal from 80 Tory MPs sealed Hancock’s fate” – The Telegraph understands that Matt Hancock resigned after having a “fairly direct” conversation with Mark Spencer, the Government’s Chief Whip, who had been contacted by 80 Conservative MPs saying he had to go. Separately, it is understood that he is unlikely to accept his £16,000 severance package
“Hospitals fear cancer ‘avalanche’ as record 230k patients sent for checks” – A leaked email, sent from a London Hospital in response to another centre requesting diagnostic imaging appointments, reveals that it is fighting to cope with patient demand, according to the Express, and it warns that many of the patients needing diagnoses are “very young”
“Report reveals 100,000 pupils failed to return to education full-time” – Analysis of official figures by the Centre for Social Justice has identified 93,514 pupils who were mostly absent between September and December, according to the Daily Mail, more than the capacity of Wembley stadium
“Michael Gove’s wife Sarah Vine speaks of the ‘pressures’ on political marriages” – Sarah Vine has offered a perspective on Matt Hancock’s affair borne of personal experience of political marriages in her Mail on Sunday column, the Telegraph reports. His “behaviour may be shocking,” she says. “But given the context it is entirely predictable”.
“MI5 to hold talks with officials over Matt Hancock video leak” – MI5 officials are expected to discuss the leak of Matt Hancock’s office CCTV footage with the Cabinet Office this week, according to the Times, amid mounting fears over other security breaches
“Up to seven in 10 children in some hospitals during pandemic were there because of mental illness” – “I’m struck by how so many children and young people have effectively been collateral damage in this pandemic,” writes Professor Lee Hudson of the Great Ormond Street UCL Institute of Child Health in the Telegraph, highlighting the results of his research into children’s mental health during lockdowns
“My hell at the hands of the Covid Stasi” – Dame Joan Collin’s “cry of rage” in the Daily Mail against the Covid quarantine officers who won’t leave her alone
“The decline of the quality press” – “The media’s frequent hyperbole will leave it struggling to describe a genuine disaster,” says David Selbourne in the Critic
“Cry God for Lozza, England and St George” – The Conservative Woman’s Kathy Gyngell salutes all who those who joined her at Saturday’s anti-lockdown march, which was the “biggest so far”
“The great deception” – “Make no mistake,” writes Rob Slane in the Conservative Woman. We are living through “a period of immense deception with unimaginable consequences”
“How are German schools preparing for fall?” – Deutsche Welle takes a look at how German schools are preparing for the autumn term when, according to Health Minister Jens Spehn, face masks and smaller class sizes may still be necessary
“Make-A-Wish refuses to grant wishes to unvaccinated children” – America’s Make-A-Wish Foundation, the organisation that creates “life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses”, has announced that it can only do so if the critically ill children, and any participating family members, are vaccinated against COVID-19, the Post Millennial reports
“YouTube and the Truman Faux Medical Show” – The latest episode of the DarkHorse Podcast sees Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying discuss their move from YouTube to Odysee
“Official 2011 Chinese Government submission discusses ‘weaponising specific viruses to target races’” – Sky News Australia’s Sharri Markson covers China’s formal submission to the 2011 UN biological weapons convention which warns that a lab leak involving virus research could place the whole of mankind in great danger and discusses the possibility of creating “genetic weapons targeted at a racial group with a particular susceptibility”
"They're so happy with life in their garden that they're not willing to come out!"
Douglas Murray tells Dan Wootton he hopes lockdown restrictions are lifted as soon as possible, adding it won't "unless people have the confidence to come out again". pic.twitter.com/JOwS66RXPS
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