“The Government must act now to avoid a winter lockdown” – Concerns that this winter will see a bad flu year are compounded by doubts over the effectiveness of vaccines against the Delta variant, reports the Telegraph.
“Vaccine Deaths Pile Up Without Media Coverage” – “The media now is largely ignoring the thousands dying from the experimental Covid vaccines,” writes Joel S. Hirschhorn in Trial Site.
“Those Anti-Covid Plastic Barriers Probably Don’t Help and May Make Things Worse” – Intuitions tells us a plastic shield would be protective against germs. But scientists who study aerosols, air flow and ventilation say that much of the time, the barriers don’t help and probably give people a false sense of security, reports DNYUZ.
“Living in the Age of Covid: ‘The Power of the Powerless‘” – “A specter is haunting the world: the increasing prospect of a new totalitarianism under the extended covid response,” writes Michael Rectenwald in the Mises Institute blog.
“The man who lost Afghanistan” – “If there was one family in Afghanistan who incarnated the hopes, illusions and failures of the last two decades there, it was the Ghanis,” writes Will Lloyd in UnHerd.
“Greta Thunberg is right” – The way the U.K. compiles its emissions data is a sham, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
“Who Fact Checks the Fact Checkers? A Report on Media Censorship” – “When we see fact checkers like NewsGuard, who not only fail to uphold their high-sounding principles but even publicly encourage working with the Government to suppress speech, we should raise red flags,” write Phillip W. Magness and Ethan Yang in AIER.
“A Better Anti-Racism” – We must insist that what we have in common is more important than what divides us. Our ability to remedy racial injustice depends on it, writes Coleman Hughes.
“Save women from this new age of woke history” – It’s frustrating that every historical figure must now conform to some modern and improving message, writes Laura Freeman in the Telegraph.
“Even my bigoted critics deserve free speech” – “An academic has been sacked over tweets calling me a ‘house negro’,” writes Calvin Robinson in Spiked. “This is nothing to celebrate.”
Billionaire inventor Sir James Dyson, who owns a portfolio of commercial offices, has called for an end to home working and a return to the office.
Mike: "He's right. You cannot leave the office and expect to have the same standard at home. Start with the Government."@Iromgpic.twitter.com/Idkpvbm0iX
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