News Round-Up

“Parents’ fury as schools reintroduce bubbles, face masks and self-isolation for healthy children” – “Nonsensical” curbs are being imposed on pupils to prevent spread of Covid, despite ministers ending restrictions, reports the Telegraph.
“Vaccine hesitancy and Covid passes could end the party for nightclubs” – With only the double jabbed let into clubs and even student venues, the night time sector faces turmoil, reports the Telegraph.
“Boris Johnson to warn NHS will never recover from Covid without tax rises” – Boris Johnson is set to shred his manifesto promise not to hike National Insurance, reports the Sun.
“Tory MPs need ‘Covid passport’ to meet Boris Johnson at Number 10” – An invitation to drinks with the Prime Minister asks guests to bring proof they have been double jabbed or had a recent negative test, reports the Telegraph.
“Rush-hour Tube traffic surges to pre-pandemic levels” – The London Underground has seen its busiest morning since before the first lockdown in 2020 as the nation heads back to work, reports the Telegraph.
“Doctor calls for 12 year-olds to be allowed to overrule parents on coronavirus vaccine” – Dr. David Strain says some children are “mature enough” to decide to have the ‘jab’ without the consent of their parents, reports Sky News.
“Parents, prepare if you want to protect your child from the State’s needle” – “It is of the utmost importance that parents work on the unfortunate assumption that the lawful application of ‘Gillick competence’ may be interpreted by the Government not as the exception but as the rule,” writes Tom Penn and Kathy Gyngell in TCW Defending Freedom.
“A quarter of arrivals from Amber List countries broke Covid rules” – Some 23% of adults arriving in England in July from Amber List countries avoided isolating or did not take required Covid tests, reports MailOnline.
“Where is the outrage over vaccine passports?” – Our freedoms are being eroded with hardly any resistance, writes Joanna Williams in Spiked.
“British vaccines minister slammed for ‘lying’ after announcing jab passports will be introduced for certain venues” – Some Britons have gone online to campaign for the sacking of the U.K.’s vaccines minister, Nadhim Zahawi, accusing him of lying about vaccine passports after he promised in January that there were no plans to introduce them, reports Russia Today.
“Government coercion of experts is alarming” – Trusted institutions have been put at risk by a dangerous preference for action over deliberation, writes Freddie Sayers in the Telegraph.
“Richard H. Thaler: on vaccines, ‘nudge’ isn’t enough” – Freddie Sayers challenges the Nobel prize winner and ‘Nudge’ inventor on the impact of his method in the latest UnHerd podcast.
“Support our campaign to repeal the unjustifiable and dangerous Coronavirus Act” – “It’s time to end this legislative symbol of fear and to take aware these tyrannical powers from an immoral government that looks quite capable of using them,” writes Kathy Gyngell in TCW Defending Freedom.
“Let that be that – The Week in Review (ep. 35)” – In the latest episode of Bournbrook Magazine’s podcast The Week in Review, Michael Curzon, S D Wickett and Luke Perry discuss booster jabs and liberty – or what’s left of it – at home and abroad.
“Pfizer CEO All but Acknowledges Vaccines Won’t be Enough — Here Comes the Antivirals and Billions More” – “One reason for the intensified pressure against ivermectin [is] to clear the market of any low-cost competition for higher-priced, novel therapeutics,” reports TrialSite.
“35,000 pupils absent from school ‘due to Covid’ in Scotland” – A surge in positive ‘cases’ among young children means 35,000 pupils are currently off school for Covid-related reasons, reports the Times.
“Lord Sumption was right to quit the Supreme Court” – “The Supreme Court is leading the nation in repairing the constitution,” writes Steven Barrett in the Spectator.
“A sad fact about the 1998 Human Rights Act” – “Who knew that political partisans would weaponise poorly defined and ambiguous articles of legislation to put the law in their favour and crush their hated opposition,” asks Luke Perry in Bournbrook Magazine.
“Climate Change in 15 Minutes” – Here are some notes on a recent talk by Judith Curry on the climate debate.
“Britain forced to fire up coal plant amid record power prices and winter squeeze” – Two coal facilities have been taken off standby as the amount of electricity coming from wind farms falls dramatically, reports the Telegraph.
“NHS managers have embraced Critical Race Theory. It will backfire tremendously” – These instructions are inherently racist, singling out a large percentage of the U.K. population based on their skin colour, writes Calvin Robinson in the Telegraph.
“Now even Sir Alan Duncan turns on Stonewall” – “Now even Sir Alan Duncan… has turned his guns on the charity – despite being heralded on Stonewall’s website as the first openly gay Conservative MP,” writes ‘Steerpike’ in the Spectator.
“Meghan clicked her fingers and ITV obeyed. Heads other than Piers Morgan’s should roll” – “More than 50,000 complaints poured in after Morgan said Meghan was lying, but this shouldn’t have concerned the channel’s bosses,” writes Camilla Long in the Sunday Times.
“Toby criticises the Government for breaking its promises with new vaccine passport plans” – Toby tells talkRADIO: “It’s deeply disappointing. It’s very unBritish and a violation of our civil liberties. It’s a form of discrimination.”

The Free Speech Union's Toby Young has criticised the Government for breaking its promises with new vaccine passport plans.

"It's deeply disappointing. It's very unbritish and a violation of our civil liberties. It's a form of discrimination."@JuliaHB1 | @toadmeister pic.twitter.com/YjSqhVmbeW
— TalkTV (@TalkTV) September 6, 2021

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