- “England had it and they threw it away” – “Knight him,” says Rod Liddle of Gareth Southgate. “And then pension him off. Nice man. Not a good manager”
- “Britons ‘expected’ to work from home and wear masks after July 19th” – The Telegraph reports on the changing mood music coming out of Downing Street. Now, the public will be “expected” to wear masks and “urged” to work from home after ‘Freedom Day’
- “Covid unlocking on July 19th must come with a warning, says Johnson” – The Guardian has learned that Government ministers have been briefed to expect at least one to two million new cases of coronavirus in the coming weeks, but fewer will end up in hospital and die thanks to the vaccination programme
- “Scotland is ‘past the worst’ of Covid peak” – Scottish Health Secretary Humza Yousaf has said that a positive trend is emerging from the data, according to the Telegraph, with cases starting to level off
- “Laurence Fox and Piers Corbyn lead protests outside Wimbledon” – A handful of demonstrators, including the two anti-lockdown stalwarts, gathered outside Wimbledon holding placards decrying lockdowns, MailOnline reports
- “Tory MP fears Boris Johnson will delay Covid restrictions needed after summer” – Conservative MP Dan Poulter, who works for the NHS, fears that restrictions will again be needed after the Summer, the Guardian reports, and that the Government will again delay implementing them
- “Fully vaccinated adults could take Covid tests for five days instead of isolating” – Ministers are considering changing the rules on isolation rules, so that fully vaccinated people can take tests for five days, rather than isolate, the Telegraph reports, amid warnings the summer could be “massively disrupted”
- “Lords turn the spotlight on ‘addictive’ quantitative easing” – Liam Halligan heralds the forthcoming report of the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee into the dangers of Quantitative Easing, one of the Bank of England’s tools in supporting the economy through lockdown
- “Of course Zoom is convenient. But little by little, it is diminishing our humanity” – “Endless work online turns you into a desiccated Zoom machine,” says Luke Johnson in the Telegraph. “Disengaged from real human contact, missing all the humour, nuance and serendipity of face-to-face contact”
- “A certain derangement has taken hold of our citizens. Are they suffering from long lockdown?” – In his column for the Sunday Times, Rod Liddle takes aim at the “saucepan-banging, knee-bending, mask-wearing” people of the left, who, he says, are “beginning to grate”
- “Britons among most anxious in world about loosening Covid rules” – “Almost eight in ten people are nervous about the loosening of lockdown restrictions and over a third will shun large crowds and social gatherings due to covid related health anxiety,” Lucy Johnston says, reporting on a survey carried out by MedicAlert for the Sunday Express
- “A plea to parents: You are your children’s last line of defence” – The Conservative Woman’s Kathy Gyngell urges parents to protect their kids from Covid mania
- “Why the Covid vaccines are illegal without informed consent” – The Conservative Woman translates a French legal judgement on mandatory vaccination, first published in the Revue Des Droits et Libertés Fondamentaux. It argues that Covid vaccines are unlawful in the absence of informed consent because they are experimental
- “Covid was just a trial run for a disease far worse” – Julian Savulescu and Dominic Wilkinson, both bioethics professors at the University of Oxford, suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic could be a trial run for something much worse in future
- Belgian woman, 90, dies after contracting two COVID-19 strains” – Belgian scientists have revealed that a 90 year-old woman who died after falling ill with COVID-19 in Aalst, Belgium had tested positive for both the alpha and beta strains, MailOnline reports
- “French scientists warn 95% may need to be vaccinated to stop Delta variant” – A panel of scientists advising the French Government have warned that the epidemic will not be brought under control “unless 90-95% of the population are infected or vaccinated, France 24 reports
- “Lisbon appeal court Judge blasts off over Portugal’s Sanitary Apartheid” – Portugal Resident highlights a Facebook post written by Lisbon Appeal Court judge Florbela Sebastião e Silva, lamenting that Portugal has become “a country that discriminates against its inhabitants on the basis of a health passport”
- “Serbian rock festival goes ahead as partygoers check for coronavirus” – The Novi Sad rock festival in Serbia went ahead without face masks or social distancing, Euronews reports, with all participants required to provide proof of vaccination, recovery from Covid or a negative test result
- “U.S. vaccine-related deaths increasing rapidly” – The Swiss Doctor looks at the latest update from the U.S. VAERS system which added 2,083 post-vaccination deaths to its running total
- “COVID-19 not connected to bats, Israeli biologists say” – “There is no evidence to show a connection between bats and COVID-19,” says Israeli veterinary doctor Maya Weinberg, according to the Jerusalem Post. “This idea bordered on conspiracy” and has done “great damage to bats around the world”
- “COVID-19: Does immunity wane six months after jab? Too early to tell” – Pfizer’s chief scientific officer Mikael Dolsten says that the recently reported dip in the vaccine’s effectiveness in Israel was mostly due to infections in people who had the jab early on, the Jerusalem Post reports. Professor Cyrille Cohen, head of the immunology lab at Bar-Ilan University argues the data is not yet in
- “CNN health contributor says point blank that it should be ‘hard for Americans to remain unvaccinated’” – The Post Millennial highlights Dr. Leana Wen’s view, expressed during one of her regular appearances on CNN, that it should be “hard for Americans to remain unvaccinated”
- “Fauci says there ‘should be more’ vaccine mandates” – President Joe Biden’s Chief Medical Adviser used an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union to push for more “vaccine mandates at a local level”, the Washington Examiner reports
- “Bat Scientists Warn That the World May Never Know COVID-19 Origins” – Dr Linfa Wang, a professor in the emerging infectious diseases program at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore, has joined the hunt for the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the Wall Street Journal says, though he acknowledges that he and his colleagues are still searching for the source of the SARS of 2002
- “Ignore no soliciting signs” – RT takes a look at the guidelines being given to the “health ambassadors” carrying out Biden administration’s “Door Knocking Project to Increase Vaccine Acceptance”. They are instructed to keep a spreadsheet of who is jabbed and who is “not interested”
- “Cubans stage rare protests over Covid measures” – Cuba has seen its biggest protests in 30 years, according to the BBC, with protesters calling for freedom, democracy and vaccines
- “New South Wales confirms first Covid-related death in 10 months” – A woman in her nineties died in Sydney having contracted the infection in a family setting, the BBC reports. This is the state’s 57th death from the virus since the start of the pandemic, the first in 10 months
- “Morrison to provide support for businesses hit by Sydney’s lockdown ” – Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is set to announce a financial support package for businesses affected by the Sydney lockdown, the Daily Mail reports, amidst warnings it could last for weeks
- “WHO sees ‘likely’ COVID vaccine link to rare heart inflammation” – Medical Xpress reports the World Health Organisation’s statement that there is “likely a causal association” between the mRNA vaccines and “very rare” heart inflammations
- “Dr Robert Malone at the Corona Ausschuss” – The inventor of mRNA vaccine technology speaks to Reiner Fuellmich at the Corona Ausschuss, followed by Psychologist Dr. Gary Sidley
- “Australians urged to arm themselves with vaccinations in new COVID-19 campaign” – Australia has launched a new and emotive vaccination campaign, ABC reports. Laura Dodsworth would recognise it as fear porn
- “Richard Madeley says he has no regrets” – Broadcaster Richard Madeley says he has no regrets about asking Susan Michie whether her politics influences the advice she gives to the Government
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