News Round-Up

• “Schools are already scheduling Covid jabs for 12 to 15 year-olds” – Molly Kingsley, Co-Founder of the parent campaign group UsForThem, says NHS trusts and schools are “creating a presumption as to the JCVI decision” on the vaccination of younger teenagers, reports MailOnline.
• “Holiday-bound Boris Johnson threatens to demote Rishi Sunak” – In a fit of frustrated impotence, Boris Johnson openly suggested that he might sack his Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, due to his comments on the damage inflicted on the economy by travel restrictions, reports the Sunday Times.
• Boris Johnson’s approval rating slips to lowest level since he became Prime Minister” – Bad news for the Tories does not necessarily lead to good news for Labour: backing for Keir Starmer is also down, reports the Guardian.
• “Curse of the Covid generation – higher unemployment and lower wages await” – Regardless of their GCSE and A-level results, students could feel the economic effect of lockdown for a lifetime, reports the Telegraph.
• “Professor Neil Ferguson interview: ‘Yes, my prediction was off… we’ll learn to live with Covid’” – Professor Neil Ferguson has gone from being the king of doom to the champion of cheer, reports the Times following its latest interview with the Government adviser.
• “Government scientist: Face masks ‘have become politicised’” – Professor Clifford Stott, a Social Psychologist at Keele University and member of the Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours subgroup of SAGE, says coverings have “become politicised”, reports MailOnline.
• “Jab interval slashed to six weeks so young can go on holidays abroad” – Young people can now get their second jab just six weeks after the first to allow them to go abroad on summer holiday, reports the Mail on Sunday.
• “Spreadsheet science is a flawed science – so why have superforecasters been given so much power?” – Policy and business decisions hinge on their every word, but should our leaders listen to their instincts as much as the superforecasters, asks Stephen Armstrong in the Telegraph.
• “Top scientists remain puzzled over how and why Covid spreads” – The world may have multiple vaccines and drugs to fight Covid but we’re still not really sure about how it transmits or how to stop it, writes Sarah Knapton in the Telegraph.
• “Calling Covid experts arrogant and wrong doesn’t make you a nutjob” – The expert-led consensus is driving once-complacent liberals towards more radical beliefs, writes Josh Glancy in the Sunday Times.
• “Thousands of anti-vaccine pass protestors take to streets of Paris” – Protesters have taken to the streets across France this weekend for the fourth weekend in a row to rally against a new health pass, reports MailOnline.
• “Prominent Law Professor Sues His School Over Vaccine Policy” – “From emergency powers, to lockdowns, to eviction moratoriums, and now vaccine mandates, the precedents we set today will forever affect the ark of our system of constitutional government,” writes Ethan Yang in AIER.
• “Standing on the Precipice – The Week in Review (ep. 31)” – In the latest edition of the Bournbrook Magazine podcast, Michael Curzon, S.D. Wickett and Luke Perry discuss the vaccination of children against Covid and more.
• “Just following orders, the Covid curtain-twitchers” – “As essential to the success of any tyranny as the police or the military, the Covid collaborators are the cogs which keep the wheels of repression turning smoothly,” writes Mary McGreechin in TCW Defending Freedom.
• “Pop-up vaccination centre opens at the Nightingale Club in Birmingham” – A Birmingham nightclub opens a walk-in centre to encourage 18-24 year-olds to get the Covid jab, reports BBC News.
• “I won’t judge you if you want to wear a facemask – please do me the same courtesy” – The lifting of restrictions on July 19th was our one chance to return to normality. If we miss it, we won’t get another, writes Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
• “The villain retailers refusing your cash – and custom” – The Telegraph Money campaign names and shames retailers turning away consumers for using real money.
• “I want this pandemic to end – yet I secretly pine for another lockdown” – For some of us, living with Covid the past 18 months gave us permission to slow down, and to re-evaluate how we want to live when this is finally over, writes Michael Venutolo-Mantovani in the Guardian.
• Australian Army hits streets to enforce the world’s strictest lockdown” – Prime Minister Scott Morrison sent around 300 soldiers to parts of Sydney with higher migrant populations as well as southwestern areas yesterday to enforce the Covid lockdown, reports MailOnline.
• “Racist tweets of Muslim Metropolitan policewoman” – Hailed as a hero for confronting anti-lockdown protesters, this police constable used Twitter in 2016 to insult Jews and mock the 9/11 attacks.
• “Using Your EV Charge Card” – “People keep talking about how as electric cars become cheaper, more people will use them. But what they keep ignoring is that they are totally useless for long trips,” writes Willis Eschenbach in Watts Up With That.
• “Obama gets his ‘scaled back’ 60th birthday party started” – Barack Obama has kicked off his 60th birthday weekend on Martha’s Vineyard with an intimate cocktail party held at a swanky resort, reports MailOnline.
• “Boris Johnson’s push for net zero plunged into chaos” – A Treasury review has been delayed over fears working class families will end up footing the bill for the Government’s green agenda, reports the Sunday Telegraph.
• “Life as a Stand-Up Comic Can Be Brutal. ‘Safe Space’ Call-out Culture Is Making it Unbearable” – “‘Cancel culture’ has become a trendy term in recent years,” writes Jessica Pigeau in Quillette. “But public shaming has always existed.”
• “The Society of Cultural Anthropology’s Campaign to Present American Populism as Fascism” – “The Internet is bursting with pundits who are all too happy to frame great swathes of people as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ – us versus them,” writes Matthew Porter in Quillette.
• “You know it’s over when Barbie surrenders to the woke” – There is barely any company, institution, school, publication or church which has not made its peace with the new woke regime, writes Peter Hitchens in his latest Mail on Sunday column.
• “The Threat Posed by the Online Safety Bill to Free Speech” – “[The Online Saftey Bill] really starts attacking some of the fundamental points of the rule of law whereby we’re all responsible for what we do and is going to start addressing opinion that might lead others to say things or… to do things once they’ve read these opinoins [sic] online,” says Radomir Tylecote from the Free Speech Union in an appearence on GB News.