News Round-Up

• “Parents demand final say over whether children get Covid jab” – Officials have admitted that if consent is not given children could still be vaccinated, but claimed such a situation would be rare, reports the Telegraph.
• “Confusion over Covid jabs for over-12s in England ahead of new school term” – Vaccine body the JCVI is understood to have concerns about the affect of the jab in young children on other inoculations, reports the Guardian.
• “Natural immunity is stronger than vaccination, study suggests” – “Double jabbed, previously uninfected people are 13 times as likely to get Covid compared with the naturally immune,” writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “Ministers doing bare minimum to stop Covid travel test ‘rip-offs’, says Labour” – Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps, has been urged – again – to name and shame firms displaying misleading pricing, reports the Guardian.
• “Scrapping the PCR stealth tax would give tourism a much-needed boost” – “If the Prime Minister really believes in a more ‘user-friendly’ travel system that “gets the industry moving again”, his Government should take action and scrap VAT on PCR tests,” writes Bill Bowkett in CapX.
• “Covid cases rising in all but two regions, figures from Public Health England reveal” – London, which has twice been the epicentre of England’s pandemic, has the lowest rate of infection, and has actually seen the number of ‘cases’ reported decrease, reports Sky News.
• “100,000 AstraZeneca doses close to expiry date could be thrown away” – NHS England had promised to collect excess vaccines from GP sites – but plans have been “seriously delayed”, reports the Telegraph.
• “The FDA did not grant full approval to the Pfizer shots” – “In the sense that the term ‘FDA approval’ is generally understood, the Pfizer Covid vaccine is not approved by the FDA,” writes Carl Schwitzer in American Thinker.
• “Why Do Public Health Agencies Reject Natural Immunity?” – “As has been explained many times before, a positive test result is not the same as active infection,” writes Dr. Joseph Mercola in Mercola.
• “Dismantling the environmental theory for Covid’s origins” – “With a laboratory leak in Wuhan looking more and more likely as the source of the pandemic, the Chinese authorities are not the only ones dismayed,” writes Matt Ridley in the Spectator.
• “Trainspotting star calls KLM ‘scamming c***s’ for refusing Covid test” – Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh has branded KLM “filthy scamming airline c***s” after they refused to let him on a flight with a negative NHS Covid test, reports MailOnline.
• “Delta Variant May Acquire Total Vaccine Resistance” – “According to a new paper, while our mRNA vaccines are effective against the most common SARS-CoV-2 variants, ‘identifying likely breakthrough variants is critical for future vaccine development,'” reports Trial Site.
• “Nursing Homes Keep Losing Workers” – U.S. nursing homes have a long-term care problem: 18 months after the Covid crisis began, their staffs are still shrinking, reports the Wall Street Journal.
• “Woman is carried out of Texas school board meeting for foregoing mask” – A Texas woman who refused to wear a face mask was lifted by two police officers, chair and all, out of a Northside Independent School District board of trustees meeting on Tuesday, reports MailOnline.
• “Have the Channel migrants completed their ‘Passenger Locator Forms’?” – “The rules invented to travel anywhere in the age of Covid are so daft they could only have been developed by bureaucrats,” writes Frederick Edward in his latest column in Bournbrook Magazine.
• “Tetlock and the Taliban” – In his latest substack update, Richard Hanania explains how a humiliating military loss proves that so much of our so-called ‘expertise’ is fake.
• “Climate change and the brainwashing of the world” – “The same bad actors who brought us coronaviruses as a pretext for removing liberty are now lining up to do the same with climate change as the excuse,” writes Lucy Wyatt in TCW Defending Freedom.
• “Fact check: what caused the German floods?” – “Never mind the caveats, the uncertainties, the rogue extremes produced by climate models, the only message that will have gone down among the public will be that climate change has made deadly floods nine times more likely,” writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “Extinction Rebellion doesn’t care what you think” – These supple-handed sons of privilege aren’t remotely interested in winning over ordinary people, writes Tom Slater in Spiked.
• “Latham’s law” – “The Australian people need to reclaim their self-respect, to stop politicians from treating them like children,” writes Mark Latham in the Spectator Australia.
• “Could these classic children’s books be next on the woke watch list?” – After Rachel Adamson, of charity Zero Tolerance, claimed The Tiger Who Came To Tea could “lead to rape”, FEMAIL takes a look at what other children’s classics are at risk of being ‘cancelled’.
• “Teachers in Scotland will be given ‘anti-racism learning resources’” – Education Scotland has introduced the new guidance over fears that groups impacted by racism are not currently sufficiently represented in the curriculum, reports MailOnline.
• “What is happening to the mainstream media and can it ever be saved?” – Author and journalist Glenn Greenwald joins Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster on TRIGGERnometry to discuss whether big tech censorship could destroy free speech online.