“Easing measures on July 19th very likely, says Boris Johnson” – Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told the BBC that people in England are “very likely” to be able to return to “pretty much life before Covid” on July 19th, the BBC reports. So not by July 5th then
“End the ‘madness’ of isolating children, Government warned” – The Children’s Commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza is calling for an end to bubbles and self isolation from schools, the Telegraph says, as the paper announces a campaign to put young people first in the future response to Covid
“Young people using social media to bypass vaccination rules” – Vaccine walk-in centres are defying official guidance by handing out second doses after just 21 days, the Telegraph reports, and young people are finding them through social media
“Vaccines drive third-wave Covid death rate below 1 in 1,000” – Cambridge Statisticians have calculated that fewer than one in a thousand COVID-19 infections are now resulting in death, the Times reports, indicating an infection fatality rate of just 0.085%
“BBC’s Andrew Marr says he caught COVID-19 after vaccine” – BBC journalist Andrew Marr told viewers of his Sunday morning programme that he caught a “nasty” bout of COVID-19 despite being fully vaccinated, according to RT
“Booster Covid jabs are not needed this winter, leading scientist says” – There is no need to give Brits booster Covid vaccines this year, Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, the lead research behind the AstraZeneca trials, has suggested, because the current jabs work so well. According to MailOnline, he sees nothing in the data to show a third jab would improve on the 90% protection offered by the first two jabs
“Mother, 47, dies after AstraZeneca Covid jab caused blood clots” – Lucy Taberer, a mother of three from Aylestone, Leicester, fell seriously ill after getting the AstraZeneca jab, MailOnline reports, and developed blood clots on her brain which caused a massive stroke
“How are small businesses preparing for Freedom Day?” – Reporting for Startups, Helena Young finds out how small business are preparing for ‘Freedom Day’ on July 19th and the uncertainties that lie beyond
“It is time to finally put children first in the age of Covid” – “For the first time in modern history, society has put the old before the young in an emergency,” says Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph. “It is time to finally put the young first”
“Bill Gates’s stranglehold on the MSM: Part 1” – The Conservative Woman publishes the first of Karen Harradine’s investigative series into the links between the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Britain’s mainstream media
“Brilliant and Educational: What’s Up with the Great Reset?” – A film about the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset, a “rebranded, tightened-up version of the UN’s decades-old ‘Sustainable Development’ agenda”, by Stacey Rudin on Ivor Cummins’s YouTube channel. Part 2 available here
“March for freedom – London” – A mini-documentary from the Saturday’s anti-lockdown march in London, with personal stories from the people who took part
“The Man With No Shame” – The latest episode of the Real Normal Podcast explores NHS bed allowances, Bourbon cremes and the indiscretions of you know who
“Coronavirus: Health minister to push for outdoor SafePass” – The Cyprus Mail reports that the country’s health minister, Constantinos Ioannou, is rumoured to be pushing for the use of the ‘safe pass’ to be extended to outdoor areas of bars, restaurants and cafes. Currently its use is limited to indoor settings
“Despite rise in cases, Israel has seen just one Covid death in two weeks” – Israel is “doing well despite the return of some restrictions,” the Times of Israel says. “There has been just one COVID-19 death in Israel in the past two weeks, and serious cases are down to just 22 nationwide”
“Russia on the back foot as third Covid wave surges” – According to the Financial Times, the Russian Government is introducing tough new restrictions and compulsory vaccinations in response to rising numbers of Delta variant cases
“Hunter Biden’s investment firm funded company that partnered with Wuhan Virology Lab” – It has emerged that Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners, an investment firm once headed up by Hunter Biden, was one of the main financial backers for Metabiota, a company that, according to the Post Millennial, partnered with both the EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology
“No longer about health” – A clip from a public health briefing in Nova Scotia in which it’s explained that the purpose of a recent injunction banning public gatherings is to prevent the spread of “false information”
“U.S.-U.K. travel corridor talks increasingly unlikely to conclude at end of July” – The rise of Delta variant cases in the U.K. and uncertainty about the status of the AstraZeneca jab in the U.S. mean that negotiations over a UK-U.S. covid travel corridor are likely to extend into August and possibly even September, Reuters reports
“‘I Was Never Sick…’: Only Foreign Scientist In Wuhan Lab Speaks Out” – An interview in NDTV with Danielle Anderson, an expert in bat-borne viruses and the only foreign scientist to undertake research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Her most recent stint ended in November 2019. She believes SARS-CoV-2 most likely came from a natural source
"The British people haven't risen up as one and said 'enough'."
Toby Young says it's time to end lockdown once and for all, telling Kevin: "My belief in the great British bulldog spirit… it's taken a real battering in the last 15 months."@toadmeister | @TVKev | #talkRADIOpic.twitter.com/JKy041dkDf
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