News Round-Up
24 August 2025
by Toby Young
Brighton Council Latest to Take Down St George’s Flags
23 August 2025
While plans are being drafted to prevent 'unjabbed' Brits from living normally, Border Officials have reportedly been told to stop making basic Covid checks on people arriving into England from Green and Amber countries.
As we await clarification on what "large venues" will be forced to check vaccine passports, reports suggest that unvaccinated Brits could be denied entry to sports events of a certain size, under new Government plans.
In an original essay for the Daily Sceptic, Dr Sinead Murphy, a Research Associate in Philosophy at Newcastle University, teases out the sinister implications of a bench in Newcastle labeled "Happy to chat bench".
The ninth of our regular round-ups of Covid vaccine safety reports and news from a group of medical doctors to inform the debate on vaccination.
There was likely a sigh of relief this morning when a minister said "it’s up to individuals and employers" whether to follow self-isolation rules after being 'pinged'. But the Government was quick to reject the claim.
COVID-19 poses almost no risk to young people. Rather than trying to strong-arm every last 18 year old into getting a vaccine they don't need, why not donate our left-over vaccines to elderly people in other countries?
Dom Cummings has given an interview to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg, due to shown tonight on BBC2 at 7pm, in which he offers further evidence that Boris is a lockdown sceptic. Naturally, this makes him much more sympathetic.
A minister has refused to rule out the prospect of the Government barring unvaccinated Brits from pubs, saying that "we're not ruling anything out" regarding the introduction of domestic vaccine passports.
Last week, a paper was published in the Lancet that drew some alarming conclusions about the number of complications associated with COVID-19 hospital patients. However, the Daily Sceptic's in-house doctor isn't impressed.
Professor David Livermore has written a piece opposing vaccine passports for the Daily Sceptic. According to his calculations, allowing the unvaccinated into large venues would pose very little risk.
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