“Britain needs to stop counting Covid cases, expert warns ” – Professor Paul Hunter, an infectious disease expert at the University of East Anglia, says Covid will never be eradicated and will instead become endemic and circulate for generations, reports MailOnline.
“Covid tests are five times the cost of a return journey to Europe” – Ministers face increasing pressure to cap how much British travellers pay for PCR tests and scrap VAT on them to stop would-be holidaymakers from being priced out of foreign breaks, reports the Mail.
“Sunetra Gupta: have my Covid hypotheses held up?” – “When I look back at the first interviews I gave on Covid, it is plainly evident that I still had no idea how politicised and nasty this controversy would become,” writes Sunetra Gupta in UnHerd.
“Premier League fans face spot-checks” – Premier League fans will face random spot-checks of their Covid status at grounds in the first few matchdays of the season, reports BBC News.
“14 Israelis who got third shot later infected with Covid” – 14 Israelis have been diagnosed with Covid despite having been inoculated with a third Covid vaccine dose, according to Health Ministry data, reports Times of Israel.
“The Totalitarian Ideology of Lockdownism” – Lockdown is looking less like a gigantic error and more like the unfolding of a fanatical political ideology and policy experiment that attacks core postulates of civilization at their very root, writes Jeffrey A. Tucker in Brownstone Institute.
“Jabs stroll-out and extreme lockdown? Welcome to the land down blunder” – “As we return to near-normal, Australia is staying shut until eight out of ten are immune. At the current rate of vaccinations, that won’t be until next year at the earliest,” writes Trevor Kavanagh in the Sun.
“The politics of trends: Defund the Police UK” – “It is now the norm for contemporary political and cultural issues to become trends, usually acquired by the cultural centre which has its headquarters on another continent,” writes Luke Perry in his latest column in Bournbrook Magazine.
“Team GB still too white and suburban, says Sport England board member” – “Team GB, Paralympics GB and their support teams do not look and sound like the whole population – that is absurd, but I think the challenge is that people don’t think it’s absurd,” says Chris Grant, as reported in the Guardian.
“Revealed: The BBC guide for covering climate change” – BBC journalists are instructed to “build trust” with “disengaged battlers” by showing how “the benefits” of climate action will help “people like them”, reports ‘Steerpike’ in the Spectator.
“Cop26 guests from Red List countries will be allowed into U.K.” – Surprise, surprise: travel rules will be relaxed for delegates of the U.N. conference, with vaccines offered to those who have not been inoculated against Covid, reports the Telegraph.
“U.N. Has Been Predicting Planetary Disaster for 50 Years” – “Don’t believe the doomsters,” writes Guido Fawkes. “The U.N. has been predicting planetary disaster for decades, usually scheduled to happen in about a decade’s time.”
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