“Nightclubs throw open their doors as Freedom Day arrives” – Thousands have eagerly piled onto dance floors for the first time since March last year, MailOnline reports, but as many as 73% of clubbers say they don’t want to return quite yet
“Athletics-Britain’s Butchart gets suspended ban in ‘faked’ Covid test row” – U.K. Athletics handed 5,000 metres runner Andrew Butchart a suspension after he admitted to changing the date on a Covid test result to get back into the U.K. He will be able to compete in the Olympics, Reuters reports
“Church of England vicar, 52, faces the sack for breaking Covid rules” – The Reverend Charlie Boyle may be sacked from his job and forced out of the vicarage where he and his family have lived for eight years, according to the Mail On Sunday, for hugging a mourner and singing a hymn without a mask
“The art of selling vaccines” – In the Spectator, Laura Dodsworth takes aim at the use of places of worship, shops, sport venues, and art galleries as vaccine centres. It makes the public health service “more like a creepy cult”, she says
“Mike Yeadon, a vilified prophet of our times” – The Conservative Woman’s Kathy Gyngell celebrates the moral courage of the former Pfizer research scientist who has been “subjected to a campaign of vilification and smears”
“The Endgame” – Bournbrook contributors S.D. Wickett and Luke Perry discuss the culmination of a global crisis; mandatory vaccinations, civil unrest and internet freedom in the latest episode of Week in Review
“France tempts teens with chance to shoot-’em-up” – Authorities in Avignon in southern France are trying to tempt 12- to 30-year-olds to get jabbed by with a chance to win tickets to a concert and a chance to try out military helicopter and target-shooting simulations, the Sunday Times reports
“Dogs debut on Cannes red carpet to detect COVID-19” – The Cannes Film Festival is only admitting the fully vaccinated and those with a negative COVID-19 test, the Telegraph says, but as an additional precaution there will be specially trained dogs at the event to sniff out Covid
“No need for mandatory vaccinations or vaccine passports” – “Vaccine passports will be needed for international travel as countries demand to know who is coming across their borders,” says Brian Lilley in the Toronto Sun. “That is vastly different from being forced to show your vaccine status to a waiter before ordering dinner on a night out”
“Is the State Your Single Source of Truth?” – Writing for the AIER, David McGrogan, a Lockdown Sceptics regular, responds to Prime Minister Jacinda Adern’s recent statement that her Government will continue to be “the single source of truth” for the people of New Zealand
“The Panic Pandemic” – “Fearmongering from journalists, scientists, and politicians did more harm than the virus,” says John Tierney in City Journal
“South Korea to bring home sailors aboard virus-hit destroyer” – South Korea on Sunday is replacing the entire 301-member crew of a navy destroyer on an anti-piracy mission off East Africa, AP News reports, after nearly 70 of them tested positive for Covid
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