“Children will only get Covid vaccines if vulnerable” – Under guidance due to be issued on Monday, Covid jabs will only be offered to children between 12 and 15 who are deemed vulnerable to Covid or who live with adults who are immunosuppressed, according to the Telegraph
“Boris Johnson cancels plans for Churchillian Freedom Day launch” – The Prime Minister Boris Johnson was planning to give a Churchillian speech at a location associated with the wartime leader to celebrate the ending of Covid restrictions, according to the Daily Mail, but it has been cancelled due to the climb in cases
“Independent Sage is run by Left-wing group including anti-Brexit activists” – Independent SAGE, the group that has regularly criticised the Government for not locking down hard enough, is run by the Citizens, according to the Telegraph, a group founded by Carole Cadwalladr, a well-known anti-Brexit conspiracy theorist
“The Most Dangerous Plague” – Dr Hugh Willbourn offers three indications to identify a sound and positive way forward in the over-policed world that will follow lockdown
“I believe the real purpose of masks is social control” – “How far tomorrow looks like a real Freedom Day will be up to all of us and our determination to return to normal life,” says Graham Brady in the Mail On Sunday. “It is time for us all now to start using our own judgment”
“We’ve de-clawed Covid… now give our freedom back” – “The very limited nature of the freedom we will receive tomorrow will leave many dissatisfied and disappointed,” says this Mail On Sunday editorial. “If we are to recover as a society and an economy, Ministers are going to need to be more confident of their own success”
“Visions of the future” – Writing for LeftLockdownSceptics, Raminder Mulla describes three potential scenarios for what society might eventually look like, post “freedom day”
“War and Covid: The Flickering of Civilisation’s Lamp” – Omar Khan takes a look at Heartbreak House, George Bernard Shaw’s play about a “cultured, leisured Europe” drifting towards destruction in the First World War, and finds parallels with the world today
“That Nurse Who Asks Questions” – In the latest episode of the Real Normal, Lord Rickmansworth and Don interview Jenna Platt, a nurse and anti-lockdown activist
“Darkness has ascended upon the enlightened country” – By completely cutting off the unvaccinated from their daily life, Emmanuel Macron has segregated the French territory into two categories, the vaccinated and the unvaccinated, with the latter being stripped of all its rights, says Julien Yvon in Bournbrook
“All of Britain put on Denmark red list – apart from Wales” – Denmark’s Foreign Ministry advises against travel to all parts of Britain apart from Wales, Nation Cymru reports, the first time an EU country has differentiated between the U.K.’s four nations for the purpose of entry requirements
“Nearly 1,000 people infected with Covid after Utrecht festival” – Nearly a thousand people who attended the July 3rd-4th Veknipt festival in Utrecht have tested positive, according to NL Times. The organisers are surprised, as there were many Covid security protocols in place
“Disney moves 2,000 jobs from California to Florida’s business-friendly climate” – The Walt Disney Company will be moving 2,000 jobs from its California HQ to Florida, the Post Millennial reports. CEO Bob Chapek has criticised California’s lockdown restrictions, which kept Disneyland closed while the park in Florida was open
“Meet the Covid billionaires” – “Redistribution of wealth is alive and well within the Covid pandemic,” says Alexandra Marshall in Spectator Australia. “Just like old school socialism, the loose change of the working class has been siphoned into the pockets of global bureaucracies, big business, politicians, and union heavyweights”
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