- “Vaccine passports for theatres will be ‘nail in coffin’” – Adults could have to prove vaccine status to enter bigger theatres under Government plans, reports the Telegraph.
- “Boris Johnson plans £34 billion NHS boost before cabinet reshuffle” – Boris Johnson is set to hand £34 billion to the NHS as part of a reform of health and social care amid growing expectation of a cabinet reshuffle, reports the Sunday Times.
- “Almost 1,000 GP practices ordered to provide face-to-face appointments” – Patient groups have demanded the Government “gets a grip” on the growing crisis as just 57% of GP appointments in July were in person, reports the Telegraph.
- “It’s time for NHS GPs to stop hiding behind their telephones” – “Many symptoms are impossible to spot during a telephone call, and difficult to see even via a good-quality video call,” writes the Spectator.
- “Vaccinating children only way to prevent winter surge in cases, says expert” – Vaccinating children is the best way to prevent a surge in Covid ‘cases’ in the winter, a leading scientist has said, as the Telegraph reports.
- “As a doctor, here’s my message to anyone who thinks it’s OK to deny medical treatment to those unvaccinated against Covid” – Some doctors are openly discussing refusal to treat patients who decline, for whatever reason, to get the jab. This would set a dangerous precedent and shatter fundamental tenets of medical practice, writes R. M. Huffman in Russia Today.
- “Fauci: Covid Boosters Likely Will Start With Pfizer Shot Only” – White House Covid adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci says the Pfizer shot will likely be the only approved Covid vaccine in September, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Denmark overtakes Sweden as the restriction-free Nordic nation” – The Government no longer considers Covid a critical threat to society, writes Freddie Sayers in UnHerd.
- “The madness of Australia’s Covid rules” – Aussies have been told to avoid talking to their neighbours and to wear a mask when driving alone, writes Peter Gregory in Spiked.
- “‘This is life from now on’: Israel’s Covid tsar warns people to prepare for a ‘fourth injection’ of Covid vaccine” – With over 2.5 million Israelis already inoculated with three Covid vaccine doses, the national Covid tsar says preparations need to begin for an eventual fourth jab due to the virus’ growing variants, reports Russia Today.
- “The theatre of terror” – Is there something pornographic about our reluctance to look away, asks Simon Cottee in UnHerd.
- “Interest in trade unions and their politics is no more, and they only have themselves to blame” – “Until the grip of ideological working-class romanticism is cast off, the irrelevance of the unions will long remain,” writes Bradley Goodwin in Bournbrook Magazine.
- “A cashless society is brilliant …if you are a spy or a thief” – “It seems that the national Covid panic, including wild suggestions that cash spreads disease, has been the pretext for a fierce attempt to march us towards a cashless society,” writes Peter Hitchens in the Mail on Sunday.
- “Inside the woke classroom: what are they teaching your children at school?” – The ideology may have made its way here from the U.S. but the activism is home-grown – and targeting our impressionable teens, writes Melanie McDonagh in the Telegraph.
- “Sydney cops won’t be punished over ‘LGBTQI awareness day’ party” – NSW Police have concluded an internal investigation into the celebrations held at a western Sydney station during Covid lockdown after photos from the event were posted online, reports the Mail Australia.
- “Justin Trudeau is the King of Woke – and Canada has finally tired of his hubris” – His decision to call a snap election has backfired disastrously, writes Michael Taube in the Telegraph.
- “When the past comes back to bite you” – Big Brother Watch has a video on the times our leaders called vaccine passports “divisive”, “discriminatory” and “wrong”.
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