- “Rishi Sunak says Freedom Day will come on July 19th” – Chancellor Rishi Sunak was speaking at a football event with schoolchildren, according to MailOnline, when he said that Freedom day will come on July 19th and he will not tolerate further lockdowns after that. In other words, not on July 5th
- “The final straw: how appeal from 80 Tory MPs sealed Hancock’s fate” – The Telegraph understands that Matt Hancock resigned after having a “fairly direct” conversation with Mark Spencer, the Government’s Chief Whip, who had been contacted by 80 Conservative MPs saying he had to go. Separately, it is understood that he is unlikely to accept his £16,000 severance package
- “Defences down: General Nick Carter among six top military commanders forced into Covid self-isolation” – The Telegraph reveals that NHS Test & Trace has ordered the Defence Secretary and the heads of the Navy, RAF and Strategic Command to self-isolate. Let’s hope Putin isn’t a reader
- “Hospitals fear cancer ‘avalanche’ as record 230k patients sent for checks” – A leaked email, sent from a London Hospital in response to another centre requesting diagnostic imaging appointments, reveals that it is fighting to cope with patient demand, according to the Express, and it warns that many of the patients needing diagnoses are “very young”
- “Report reveals 100,000 pupils failed to return to education full-time” – Analysis of official figures by the Centre for Social Justice has identified 93,514 pupils who were mostly absent between September and December, according to the Daily Mail, more than the capacity of Wembley stadium
- “Michael Gove’s wife Sarah Vine speaks of the ‘pressures’ on political marriages” – Sarah Vine has offered a perspective on Matt Hancock’s affair borne of personal experience of political marriages in her Mail on Sunday column, the Telegraph reports. His “behaviour may be shocking,” she says. “But given the context it is entirely predictable”.
- “MI5 to hold talks with officials over Matt Hancock video leak” – MI5 officials are expected to discuss the leak of Matt Hancock’s office CCTV footage with the Cabinet Office this week, according to the Times, amid mounting fears over other security breaches
- “Fear, face masks and failing immunity – has Covid damaged our children forever?” – Lauren Crosby Medlicott examines the impact of lockdown restrictions on babies and toddlers in the Metro
- “Up to seven in 10 children in some hospitals during pandemic were there because of mental illness” – “I’m struck by how so many children and young people have effectively been collateral damage in this pandemic,” writes Professor Lee Hudson of the Great Ormond Street UCL Institute of Child Health in the Telegraph, highlighting the results of his research into children’s mental health during lockdowns
- “Sajid Javid has his work cut out reversing Matt Hancock’s pitiful legacy” – Matt Hancock, says Ross Clark in the Telegraph, “will be remembered as the man who made it harder to get a GP appointment”
- “Delaying the end of restrictions comes at a price: it’s time to reopen in one big bang” – “We can’t let ourselves be habituated to authoritarianism,” writes Dan Hannan in the Telegraph. “A week of restrictions should feel as un-British today as it did in March 2020”
- “My hell at the hands of the Covid Stasi” – Dame Joan Collin’s “cry of rage” in the Daily Mail against the Covid quarantine officers who won’t leave her alone
- “The decline of the quality press” – “The media’s frequent hyperbole will leave it struggling to describe a genuine disaster,” says David Selbourne in the Critic
- “Why we don’t believe any variant will be able to defeat jab completely” – The Mail On Sunday publishes an excerpt from Vaxxers, a new book by Professor Sarah Gilbert and Dr Cath Green, two of the scientists behind the AstraZeneca jab
- “Cry God for Lozza, England and St George” – The Conservative Woman’s Kathy Gyngell salutes all who those who joined her at Saturday’s anti-lockdown march, which was the “biggest so far”
- “The great deception” – “Make no mistake,” writes Rob Slane in the Conservative Woman. We are living through “a period of immense deception with unimaginable consequences”
- “Helicopter Live Feed: Freedom March Live 26th June 2021” – Raw helicopter footage from Saturday’s march in London, presented by Dr David Bull and Richard Tice
- “France and Germany will renew attempt to force UK tourists to quarantine in EU” – Each EU state is free to impose its own restrictions on travellers but the Telegraph reports that Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel are expected to renew their bid to instil a Europe-wide quarantine rule for British visitors
- “How are German schools preparing for fall?” – Deutsche Welle takes a look at how German schools are preparing for the autumn term when, according to Health Minister Jens Spehn, face masks and smaller class sizes may still be necessary
- “Finland warns football fans returning from Russia to get COVID-19 test” – In a statement released on Saturday, according to Euronews, Finland’s health institute has warned football fans returning home from Russia to get a Covid test and to self isolate
- “Make-A-Wish refuses to grant wishes to unvaccinated children” – America’s Make-A-Wish Foundation, the organisation that creates “life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses”, has announced that it can only do so if the critically ill children, and any participating family members, are vaccinated against COVID-19, the Post Millennial reports
- “Trudeau government sues House Speaker to keep virology lab docs secret from the public” – The Post Millennial reports that the Trudeau administration is fighting tooth and nail to protect classified documents related to the firing of Dr. Xiangguo Qiu and her husband Keding Cheng from the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg
- “Singapore’s surprising new plan to live with Covid revealed” – There will be, according to news.com.au, no travel quarantine and no daily numbers, but people may need to take a test to head to the shops or to go to work
- “‘The aim is to rapidly increase the rate of vaccinations’: Ramaphosa moves South Africa to level 4” – TimesLive reports that President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that South Africa is to move to “level 4” restrictions, meaning a curfew, a ban on alcohol sales and on all gatherings except funerals
- “What are the COVID-19 restrictions for the Greater Sydney lockdown?” – A summary of the fairly grim lockdown restrictions being imposed upon Greater Sydney and surrounding areas until July 9th, courtesy of the Sydney Morning Herald
- “YouTube and the Truman Faux Medical Show” – The latest episode of the DarkHorse Podcast sees Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying discuss their move from YouTube to Odysee
- “Truth, Science, and Censorship in the Time of a Pandemic” – Bret Weinstein is the guest on the Lex Friedman Podcast, discussing the lab-leak hypothesis, vaccines, big tech censorship any more
- “‘Astonishing’ how many ‘heartless’ things have been done to ‘keep us healthy’” – Sky News Australia contributor Caleb Bond examines the dark side of Australia’s lockdowns, “and the draconian rules that just keep on keeping on”
- “Official 2011 Chinese Government submission discusses ‘weaponising specific viruses to target races’” – Sky News Australia’s Sharri Markson covers China’s formal submission to the 2011 UN biological weapons convention which warns that a lab leak involving virus research could place the whole of mankind in great danger and discusses the possibility of creating “genetic weapons targeted at a racial group with a particular susceptibility”
- “They’re so happy with life in their garden that they’re not willing to come out!” – We are “a long way from normal”, Douglas Murray told GB News’s Dan Wootton last night, and said Lockdown won’t end unless “people have the confidence to come out again”
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Meanwhile the Covid enquiry in the UK continues to take its time.
The Covid enquiry in the UK is, by-and-large pure theatre. The conclusions of the enquiry had been decided before the enquiry even started.
Happy lawyers… once again!
As Domonic Cummings said….Many of the meetings are a foregone conclusion.
The CONVID enquiry in the UK remains a complete charade plain to see for anyone able to bring themselves to look.
A hero.
Each little victory opens the Overton window a crack. Good on yer, mate.
Thanks to Rebekah Barnett and the DS editors for this wonderful news from Australia, which we might never have heard through the mainstream media.
Aseem Malhotra is still in the firing line:
https://www.gmc-uk.org/news/news-archive/statement-on-judicial-review-of-our-handling-of-complaints-about-dr-aseem-malhotra
And the death of his uncle, and maybe it will get people more interested in our own state secrets that often are classified till 2045 to name a few.
Both his Uncle and his Father……Trump was persuaded not to open the Files….as they were too shocking……also Martin Luther Kings…..
There are a whole stack of ‘skeletons’ to be found. The reality will be terrifying. See attached and try googling any of the entries on it! Coincidences?
Hear hear!
Australia was one place I did not expect this to happen.
I think a lot of people who work in healthcare are feeling genuine remorse now. They were sincerely ignorant at the time and now can’t deny what is happening in terms of admissions for cancer. People showing up with no previous medical history, no risk factors, and finding out that they have advanced lung cancer. It is a terrible death even if it only lasts three months. Not just the lungs the whole body wastes away bones become so thin and then the final unspeakable agonies. To my mind this is the greatest evil in the history of humankind.
The BBC ran an article lamenting the fact that Stephen Bartlett allowed experts like Dr. Bay to voice their educated opinion or as the BBC put it “spread misinformation” on his popular podcast.
This is why BBC Verify is seen as a joke. When even courts find that medics have every right to question vaccines, lockdowns or any other pharmaceutical or NP intervention and indeed should be encouraged to do so it lays bare what Verify is – a dangerous tool of censorship and one-narrative control.