“SAGE expert says group left ‘scratching head’ over falling infections” – Modelling released ahead of ‘Freedom Day’ said it was realistic to expect six-figure cases in August and as many as 200,000 in a worst-case scenario. But there were just 29,000 across Britain yesterday, says MailOnline.
“Here we go again” – “You know how I know public health authorities are lying?” asks Alex Berenson in his Substack newsletter. “Their own data.”
“Covid authoritarianism sweeps Europe – but the economy is saved” – The lurch towards majoritarianism and the mobilisation of the state against a nonconformist minority is taking hold across the continent, says Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph.
“The Lancet, China and the origins of coronavirus” – Did the Lancet sit on evidence that showed Covid was transmissible by humans early on in the pandemic? asks Stuart Ritchie in the Spectator.
“Freedom for double jabbed as U.K. opens to world” – Boris Johnson to reopen country to EU and U.S. and also drop requirements for fully vaccinated Britons to take Covid tests, reports the Telegraph.
“Spain could replace France on the travel quarantine list” – Whitehall sources are increasingly confident that France will be removed from the ‘amber plus’ list, which requires people to self-isolate for 10 days on return even if fully vaccinated. But the bad news is Spain may be upgraded to ‘amber plus’, says MailOnline.
“What else have ‘the experts’ got wrong? ” – If SAGE scientists got their predictions about the impact of ‘Freedom Day’ so wrong, what else have they been mistaken about, asks Sarah Vine in the Daily Mail.
“Tech giants rake in £137bn in just three months” – Google owner Alphabet, iPhone maker Apple and Microsoft pulled in total revenues of £136.5 billion over a three month period, they revealed in results just released.
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