- “Booster jabs will be compulsory for foreign trips” – Although double-jabbed Brits are currently free from quarantine restrictions when travelling to Amber List countries, this is expected to change with the introduction of booster shots, reports the Mail on Sunday.
- “‘Concern’ over lack of second jab uptake ahead of winter, says JCVI member” – A member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation has expressed concern that people are not getting fully vaccinated against Covid due to disinformation, reports the Telegraph.
- “New Covid variants ‘would set us back a year’, experts warn U.K. Government” – A vaccine-beating variant is “realistic possibility”, say scientists, amid calls for contingency plans to be revealed, reports the Observer.
- “NHS blocks MoS revealing thousands died after catching Covid on a ward” – Roughly one in ten Covid patients hospitalised during the first wave of the pandemic picked up the virus on a ward where they were being treated for something else, reports the Mail on Sunday.
- “Zero-Covid zealotry wreaks havoc in economies around the world” – Repeated lockdowns in China due to the Delta variant and a limited vaccine roll-out threaten global growth, writes Tim Wallace in the Telegraph.
- “U.K. vaccine mega-factory working on combined flu and Covid jab” – VMIC is evaluating whether a single-jab model would work in a bid to cut down on manufacturing time and make roll-outs easier, reports the Telegraph.
- “Covid deaths rise 56% in a week from 39 to 61” – Department for Health bosses reported a further 26,750 infections on Sunday, a 2% drop from the 27,288 cases reported last Sunday, reports MailOnline.
- “The Variants of Covid Madness: Stepping Into the Breach” – “All over the world, there is no correlation between mask mandates and sustained Covid result,” writes Omar Khan in Uncommon Wisdom.
- “What a Choice! – The Week in Review (ep. 32)” – In the latest episode of the Bournbrook Magazine podcast, Michael Curzon, S.D. Wickett and Luke Perry discuss censorship, exam results and Afghanistan, a week after being censored by YouTube.
- “The BBC’s vaccine cheerleader Jeremy Vine gets his comeuppance” – “The entitlement and arrogance of the BBC’s top-paid presenters is no secret. To that we must now add sheer ignorance, studied denial and cruelty,” writes Kathy Gyngell in TCW Denfending Freedom.
- “The unravelling of the West” – Melanie Phillips and Brendan O’Neill discuss identity politics, anti-Semitism and the retreat from reason in a recent Spiked podcast.
- “YouTube Suspends Senator Rand Paul for Posting Anti-Mask Video” – U.S. Senator Rand Paul has been suspended from YouTube for a week for posting a video claiming that masks are ineffective in fighting Covid, reports Newsmax.
- “If You Question Government Covid Response You are Considered A Domestic Violent Extremist” – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security seems rather paranoid in their need to label anyone who would question the Covid response, reports the Conservative Treehouse.
- “L.A. man stabbed when anti-vaccine protesters collide with suspected Antifa activists” – A man has been stabbed at a rally against mandatory vaccinations in Los Angeles after violent clashes broke out between demonstrators and suspected ‘anti-fascist’ counter-protestors, the New York Post.
- “As it happened: NSW now in statewide lockdown after 466 new cases, four deaths on Saturday, eight mystery cases in Victoria” – New South Wales, Australia, entered a snap statewide lockdown on Saturday after recording 466 new cases of Covid, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
- “So is this really an A-level ‘triumph’… or a cruel betrayal?” – “I can still remember when a set of English A-levels were regarded as the equal of an American college degree,” writes Peter Hitchens in his latest Mail on Sunday column.
- “This pushover Government is merely storing up problems” – The exam grades fiasco is the latest disaster to befall a Government incapable of taking tough choices and standing up to vested interests, writes Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “The Church is on the brink of revolt” – “A quiet but unmistakable rebellion is taking place within the Church of England,” writes Giles Fraser in UnHerd.
- “The self-defeating rage of Owen Jones” – “Owen Jones seems to engage in public discussion not to understand or clarify an issue, but to berate or reward people,” writes James Heartfield in Spiked.
- “Scotland’s new transgender guidance is a safeguarding nightmare” – “All children need to feel safe and secure. That requires boundaries and policy grounded in facts and reality,” writes Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
- “ICYMI: ‘The Scottish Government has – in my opinion – a dismal record across the board’” – Neil Oliver criticises the SNP for its attempt to let children as young as four to change their gender, and attacks its record on drug deaths and handling of Covid on GB News.
By Michael Curzon / 15 August 2021 • 23.51
