- “Summer travel will be filled with ‘hassle and delays’, warns Boris Johnson” – The Prime Minister has said that Britons face a “difficult year for travel” whether or not the proposals to scrap quarantine rules for double jabbed travellers go ahead, the Telegraph reports
- “GPs too busy to administer Covid booster jabs, warns Royal College” – The head of the Royal College has warned that GPs are too busy to administer booster jabs without more support, according to the Telegraph
- “Anti-lockdown activists clash with police over ‘Freedom Day’ delay” – MailOnline reports on yesterday’s anti-lockdown demonstrations in parliament square
- “Government accused of ushering in national ID cards ‘by the backdoor’ after jab passport deal” – Global IT firm Entrust received £250,000 to provide computing software for Covid status certificates. According to the i, the company has helped roll out ID systems in Albania, Ghana and Malaysia and suggested that vaccine passports could be used to “consider a national ID strategy” and “become part of the infrastructure of the new normal”
- “Matt Hancock: PM was ‘stressed’ when he called me hopeless” – Matt Hancock insists that he is not embarrassed by Dominic Cummings’s publishing messages about him from the Prime Minister, the Times says, ascribing the “f***ing hopeless” comment to “stress”
- “Covid: Lifting outdoor centres school trip ban ‘absolute joke’” – Primary Schools in Wales may now go on overnight trips the BBC reports, but the about-turn, three weeks before the end of term, has been described as an “absolute joke” by Clive Richley who runs an outdoor activities centre
- “Sight loss: Lengthy waiting lists ‘cost me my driving licence’” – Former teacher Dianne Gill believes she would still be able to drive if she had not had to wait 11 months to see a specialist, the BBC says, and she fears the situation would get worse for thousands of others due to backlogs that have developed
- “Oxford Road hotel quarantine facility to close” – The Penta Hotel quarantine service on Oxford Road is to close at the end of this month, the Reading Chronicle reports, amid council concerns about the spread between residents, staff and the local community
- “A bleak new era of Covid socialism threatens to end in carnage for the Tories” – “If Johnson is to have any chance of levelling up the country, he must reopen it now,” says Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph
- “After a year of fear, will we learn to take risks again?” – A Telegraph feature by Caroline Williams, looking at how a year of fear effected people’s perceptions of risk
- “Today was supposed to be our Freedom Day. If we can’t open on July 5th, how can we open on the 19th?” – Andrew Lillico casts doubt on July 19th becoming “Freedom Day” in the Telegraph
- “We should be unlocking – so why is the Government gearing up for more restrictions?” – “This madness will not end until we make it end,” says Michael Curzon in Bournbrook Magazine
- “Flawed modelling is condemning Britain to lockdown” – “Again and again, worst-case scenarios are presented with absurd precision,” writes Matt Ridley in the Telegraph. “And the problem goes further than Britain’s slow reopening”
- “Riven by divided leadership and without a strategy, the anti-lockdown movement has decisively failed” – “Britain’s lockdown sceptics have lost this war,” says Benedict Spence, delivering some home truths in the Telegraph
- “Church worship restricted, devil worship fine” – Roger Watson notes in the Conservative Woman that “Christian worship may be conducted only under strict and completely unnecessary restrictions” whereas heavy metal fans were permitted to crowd into a concert in Castle Donington over the weekend
- “The Innova scandal Part 4: Questions the Government must answer” – In the fourth and final instalment of the Conservative Woman’s investigation into the Innova lateral flow test, Sonia Elijah examines the record of the Chinese-American owner Dr Charles Huang
- “Hancock pulls the plug on the National Health Service” – In the Conservative Woman, Kate Dunlop picks Matt Hancock up on his suggestion that treatment for Covid on the NHS could depend on vaccination status, which undermines Aneurin Bevan’s “great and novel undertaking”
- “My life as a carer sacrificed for refusing the jab” – Frontline worker Claire Ball reflects on her potential loss of employment for her decision to decline the jab in the Conservative Woman
- “Inflation at most dangerous point in decades” – Andrew Neil warns on GB News that if post-lockdown inflation hits 4% the average household will be £700 a year worse off
- “Rachel Elnaugh on the Delingpod” – Dragon’s Den investor Rachel Elnaugh joins James on the latest Delingpod to discuss never ending lockdowns, tyranny, vaccines and more
- “Government by consent: comparing seat belts and masks” – The Rev. Phill Sacre critiques the comparison that is often made between wearing seatbelts and wearing masks
- “French nightclubs will reopen on July 9th, but you’ll need a health pass” – Nightclubs will soon be allowed to open their doors again across the Channel, but anyone looking for a night out will need a health pass attesting they have either been fully vaccinated, have been tested over the previous 72 hours or have recovered from COVID-19, according to Euronews
- “Swiss experts play down risk of Delta virus variant” – Christoph Berger, head of the Federal Commission for Vaccinations, has said that Switzerland is well prepared for the Delta variant and there is no reason for particular concern, SwissInfo reports
- “Covid surges, but Russians resist coaxing and compulsion to get vaccinated” – Vaccine uptake remains low in Russia, Reuters reports, despite surges in Covid cases, and despite offers of cash payments for getting jabbed and threats of dismissal for refusing. The Kremlin now complains of “nihilism”
- “Google is reportedly force-installing some COVID-19 tracking apps on Android” – According to Tech Radar, smartphone users in some parts of the U.S. have reported that the contact tracing app has been installed on their devices without consent
- “Fauci doubles down on claim that attacks on him are ‘actually criticising science’” – The New York Post reports on Dr. Anthony Fauci’s increasingly desperate efforts to defend himself from his critics
- “The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill” – An account by Megan Molteni in Wired of why it took so long for scientists to figure out how Covid is spread
- “Did Economists Really Favour the Corona-Lockdowns?” – Writing for Real Clear Markets, Jeffrey Tucker debunks the idea, widely put about in the media, that there was a pro-lockdown consensus among economists
- “Half of Zimbabweans fell into extreme poverty during Covid” – The World Bank has estimated that the number of extreme poor in Zimbabwe has grown by 1.3 million since the pandemic began, according to the Guardian, with children bearing the brunt of the misery
- “WHO to discuss Olympics COVID-19 risks with Japan, IOC” – The World Health Organization said on Monday it would discuss managing COVID-19 risks with Japanese authorities and the International Olympic Committee, according to Reuters, after organisers announced some spectators would be permitted to attend the Tokyo Games.
- “Morrison criticised for personal stops in the UK while defending Australia’s border restrictions” – Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has defended the “innocent” visits he made to trace his ancestors in Cornwall while attending the G7 summit, ABC reports
- “Doctors spreading misinformation about COVID-19 may lose their job – Medical Council” – Dr. Curtis Walker, chair of the Medical Council of New Zealand, has warned that doctors spreading misinformation, questioning the severity of Covid or the safety of the vaccinations risk losing their position, RNZ reports
- “Addendum: competing interests and the origins of SARS-CoV-2” – Peter Daszak has added some detail about about his competing interests to the February 2020 letter in the Lancet affirming support for the scientists in China and restating his conclusion that the virus came from nature and pointing out that he is recused from the Lancet COVID-19 Commission’s work on the origins of the virus
- “Should you get vaccinated?” – Steve Kirsch, the Executive Director of COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund, examines the data on vaccine safety at TrialSiteNews
- “mRNA Inventor Robert Malone backs up Professor Byram Bridle” – In the latest episode of Trish Wood is Critical, Dr. Robert Malone and Dr. Byram Bridle go after the critics who try to silence anyone who raises concerns about vaccine safety
- “Updated (June 21st) set of Warwick models used to justify the delay of the June 21st unlock” – An interesting comparison of the Warwick Model’s forecast of what would happen by June 21st against what’s actually happening
Updated (21-Jun) set of Warwick models used to justify the delay of the 21-Jun unlock.
— Richard
These models are without the announced delay so will be interesting to see how well they match reality up to 21-Jun.
The 2 hospital metrics are probably the most relevant. pic.twitter.com/h9ELfFFG96(@RP131) June 21, 2021
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I think it’s clear that on various levels, these people are collaborators and have been offered a special place in the post-industrial gulag that has been constructed around us since early 2020. Whether any of them are clever enough to realise is another matter but I think they should be considered collaborators and accessories to the crimes against humanity that ‘climate change’ and ‘covid-19’ represent. Every word their traitorous mouths utter about climate or vaccination is evidence that must one day be used against them.
Never mind the few filthy rich celebrities private-jetting across the world; If there really was a climate “emergency” (you know, one of those must-act-now-or-bad-things-will happen-immediately-scenarios) then why haven’t the airlines taken one for the team and scrapped their business- and first-class sections and filled them out with economy seats instead?
I know it sounds extreme, but this is an emergency is it not?
If it were an emergency then extreme measures like this would be justified, perhaps even insisted on to reduce the overall carbon footprint of the aviation industry (and this would dramatically reduce it).
The answer is simple: “Emergency” is not the correct word at all to describe the current environmental circumstances. In fact it’s a vast overstatement that has been invoked for many decades by hysterical activists. (Don’t get me wrong, I agree wholeheartedly with environmental activism, as an antidote to the destruction us humans have left in our wake over the past century, but that destruction has taken the form of deforestation, water pollution and many other collective assaults on the earth, rather than carbon, climate and all the rest of this silly little mind game that’s been visited upon us).
Pretty much any preachy pronouncement on any subject from a member of the elites is likely to stink of hypocrisy
Any pronouncements from the self-styled elites will be stuffed with hypocrisy. The two go together like bread and cheese.
Arkle and Markle fly half way round the globe in a private jet. Arkle disembarks, takes his shoes off and then lectures the world on saving the planet. Admittedly the Windsors have severe intellectual deficiencies but crap like this suggests Ging needs the bottom block. Sharpish.