“U.K.’s irresistible urge to elevate the trolls” – Don’t feed the trolls. It’s a piece of advice that goes back to the earliest days of social media, and it remains solid, says Dan Hannan in the Washington Examiner, referring to the trolls who abused the England football players.
“Lord Sumption changes his mind on vaccine passports – The Post” – In his interview with UnHerd back in March of this year, former Supreme Court Justice Jonathan Sumption upset many of his libertarian fans by coming out in favour of vaccine passports. In his interview with Amol Rajan on the Today programme on Tuesday, Lord Sumption seemed to have changed his mind.
“One in five NHS Covid app users have turned OFF contact-tracing” – The new YouGov survey shows a fifth of Covid app users have either turned off their bluetooth of their mobile phones – essentially stopping its contact-tracing function, says the Mail.
“How ‘decolonisation’ starts a culture war” – Most people support efforts to broaden the university curriculum as long as it is not termed “decolonisation”, a survey has found, according to the Times.
“Labour should back bill on free speech” – A letter in the Guardian from Michael Meadowcroft on why the party’s opposition to the legislation is counterproductive.
“Freedom of speech is under attack” – Barrister Francis Hoar, a lockdown sceptic, has written a paper for Laurence Fox’s Reclaim Party about how to strengthen free speech protections in British law.
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