“Rishi Sunak to rein in borrowing as tough autumn looms” – Rishi Sunak will set out new fiscal rules in his budget next month to rein in Government borrowing amid Treasury concerns about inflation and interest rates, reports the Times.
“I will not obey any more lockdowns” – If Boris Johnson attempts to lock down Britain again there will be mass disobedience, Nigel Farage tells Steven Edginton in an interview for the Telegraph.
“Sajid Javid’s creative calculator” – The Health Secretary claims that vaccines have prevented more infections than there have ever been in the pandemic, writes HART.
“Herd Immunity – Professor Sunetra Gupta” – “Herd immunity probably takes the prize for being the most misunderstood term of 2020,” says Professor Sunetra Gupta on Collateral Global’s YouTube channel.
“How the West locked down Africa” – Professor Toby Green discusses his book on the introduction of Covid lockdown policies and their disastrous effect on the African poor.
“Debunking Biden’s Claim We Must ‘Protect the Vaccinated from the Unvaccinated’” – The official line on vaccines is that they are extremely effective at protecting against serious illness. And yet these same people are also claiming that the unvaccinated are a major threat to the vaccinated, writes Ryan McMaken in Mises Institute.
“Why I’ve given up on TV news” – There seems to be a relentless appetite for bad news, so much so that if there isn’t any actual bad news out there, folk just make it up, writes Andrew Lilico in the Telegraph.
“Your Life in 10: Toby Young” – Toby talks to S.D. Wickett about his favourite books, music, films and more in the latest Bournbrook Magazine podcast.
“Appeal court overturns U.K. puberty blockers ruling for under-16s” – The court of appeal has overturned a judgment that children under the age of 16 considering gender reassignment are unlikely to be mature enough to give informed consent to be prescribed puberty-blocking drugs, reports the Guardian.
“Are children capable of making life-changing decisions?” – “Can children ever understand the consequences of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones before they know what it means to be an adult,” asks Debbie Hayton in the Spectator. “I don’t think they can.”
Mark Dolan: This bullying around the vaccine only adds to vaccine hesitancy, and fuels the fires of the conspiracy theorists. pic.twitter.com/uTHfbGOYbM
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