- “Highest taxes since Second World War as Boris Johnson abandons manifesto pledges” – The Prime Minister has raised National Insurance and pulled the plug on the pensions triple lock to fund NHS and social care, reports the Telegraph.
- “Covid booster jab campaign may not be needed, says AstraZeneca boss” – Pascal Soriot warns that the NHS may come under unnecessary pressure if the roll-out begins without clear evidence, reporst the Telegraph.
- “There can be no justification whatsoever for an October lockdown” – It simply isn’t plausible that we could go from being at herd immunity for summer to having a new wave ten times as great this autumn, writes Andrew Lilico in the Telegraph.
- “Javid’s cash boost can’t fix a battered NHS” – “The Treasury is, true to form, anxious that the health service doesn’t just take the money without it appearing to touch the sides,” writes Isabel Hardman in the Spectator.
- “Exam contingency plans being made in case coronavirus forces more ‘unthinkable’ cancellations in 2022” – Schools Minister Nick Gibb says teachers and schools want advance details of “what data they might or might not need to collect should the worst happen”, reports Sky News.
- “It’s not up to my 12 year-old daughter to decide whether she gets jabbed” – These children aren’t old enough to buy gerbils, yet according to the Government they are able to make their minds up on the Covid vaccine, writes Judith Woods in the Telegraph.
- “Never again should Parliament sit via Zoom” – The more MPs are able to look into the whites of each others’ eyes, the better, writes Iain Dale in the Telegraph.
- “Four in five people aged 16 and over in U.K. have had both vaccine jabs, says Government” – A total of 43,535,098 people have had two jabs (80.1%) and 48,292,811 have been given one dose (88.8%), reports Sky News.
- “The Left’s science denial” – Beware sharing politically inconvenient stories on social media, writes Tom Chivers in UnHerd.
- “Covid Bosh: The Illicit and the Desperate” – “The lies are growing more desperate. Now more than ever, we have to cleave to what we can best discern and know to most likely, rationally, be the case,” writes Omar Khan in Uncommon Wisdom.
- “Young adults’ lung function is not affected by Covid, researchers find” – Scientists in two separate studies say the results are reassuring for those in this age group who become infected with Covid, reports the Telegraph.
- “Scientist Claims Anthony Fauci ‘Untruthful’ About Chinese Lab Research” – The U.S. Government helped fund research on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, reports Breitbart.
- “Vietnam man jailed for five years for spreading Covid” – The man was sentenced to five years in jail for “spreading dangerous infectious disease” after breaching quarantine rules and passing Covid to at least eight people, reports the Guardian.
- “Sex, drugs and the Modern Review” – We wouldn’t have survived amid today’s echo chambers and cancel culture, writes Julie Burchill on the Modern Review in UnHerd.
- “Only connect” – “This,” according to Alexander Adams in Bournbrook Magazine, “is why meeting in person at organised events, social get-togethers and chance encounters is so valuable.”
- “E.U. wants everyone to pay the cost of going green – except the wealthy” – Climate change is for all us to solve. Leaving out supercars and private jets from plans is hypocritical, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “We won’t be bullied into going green, says China” – Beijing has told Britain that it will not yield to international pressure for bigger improvements to its climate change commitments at the COP26 conference, reports the Times.
- “Radical environmentalists need to get a grip – we’ll still need coal for the foreseeable future” – Without steel you can’t have wind turbines, or solar farms, or new energy-efficient homes. And to produce mass steel, you need coal, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “Better-off workers will boost the war on woke” – “There is often more method to the madness of commercial wokery than is commonly supposed,” writes Andrew Cadman in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Train conductor sacked for referring to ‘alcohol-free caliphate’ on Facebook” – There was a time when one might have sacked for using the F-word in public, but Jeremy Sleath has been sacked for using a simile, reports Archbishop Cranmer.
- “BBC offers staff test to see how privileged they are” – The initiative has been ridiculed by critics as pointless, while MPs declare that the corporation’s “distorted view” is not shared by viewers and listeners, reports the Telegraph.
- “Can the perpetually underfunded NHS please just look after our health rather than wasting time and money lecturing us about race?” – “An NHS blog titled Dear White People in the U.K.’ emerged over the weekend. If this is the sort of rubbish we can expect added funds from the proposed raise in National Insurance to go on, Britain is being taken for a ride,” writes Paul A. Nuttall in Russia Today.
- “I am sick of being told I have to protect the NHS!” – Toby says on talkRADIO: “It has become our national religion. A lot of people are sick to the back teeth of this.”
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