News Round-Up

• “Get ready to vaccinate kids as young as 12, Sajid Javid tells NHS” – The Health Secretary says he is putting plans in place so the country is “ready to hit the ground running” if the JCVI gives the go-ahead to ‘jab’ younger children, reports the Mail.
• “Hopes of cheaper holidays dashed as costly Covid PCR travel tests ‘here to stay’” – Senior MPs are pushing – seemingly in vain – for the use of lateral flow tests, but just for double jabbed holidaymakers returning from ‘Amber’ and ‘Green’ countries, reports the Telegraph.
• “Hospital-acquired Covid tends to be picked up from other patients, not from healthcare workers” – The majority of patients who contracted Covid while in hospital did so from other patients rather than from healthcare workers, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Cambridge and Addenbrooke’s Hospital.
• “Masks to be worn in some south-west England schools amid Covid rise” – Secondary school and college pupils will need to wear face masks in communal areas outside their classrooms yet again in parts of south-west England, reports the Guardian.
• “It’s a scandal that ‘back to school’ still won’t mean ‘back to normal’ for our kids next week” – The chaos that ended the last academic year is set to start all over again in a matter of days, with the curriculum yet to be released, writes David Blunkett in the Telegraph.
• “Britain is sleepwalking into another lockdown” – Our chaotic Government has already overseen some of the worst health and economic outcomes, writes Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
• “Unvaccinated travel ban call as cases rise” – A GP says holiday travel bans should be considered for the unvaccinated if Covid ‘cases’ continue to rise in Wales, reports BBC News.
• “Nicola Sturgeon considering plan to ban unvaccinated Scots from pubs” – The First Minister has dismissed ‘circuit breaker’ lockdown claims but will not rule out ‘limited’ restrictions as Covid ‘cases’ surge, reports the Telegraph.
• “BBC presenter dying from rare AstraZeneca blood clot leads to calls for risk awareness” – Lisa Shaw died in May, just over three weeks after she had her first dose of the jab, reports the Telegraph.
• “Pfizer/FDA: 95% Deception?” – Swiss Policy Research reports how the U.S. FDA ‘fully approved’ the Pfizer vaccine without requiring product liability.
• “What would proof of a Covid lab leak look like?” – Scientists exploring the origins of Covid are warning that time may be running out. The truth is we may never know for sure where the pandemic came from, writes David Cox in Wired.
• “How the West Embraced Central Planning and Abandoned Human Rights” – “It appears as though the totalitarian strategies that have been embraced by formerly liberal governments will continue to persist for the foreseeable future in spite of their poverty,” writes Birsen Filip in Mises Institute.
• “Joe Biden lashes out at China for withholding ‘critical information’ on Covid origins” – One intelligence agency believes with “moderate confidence” that the first human infection was linked to a lab, reports the Telegraph.
• “Hysteria has consumed America” – Brendan O’Neill talks to Heather Mac Donald about the Salem-like atmosphere created by Covid, how the Biden administration has put wokeness on steroids and how racial identity politics is destroying high culture in the lastest Spiked podcast.
• “About 40% of U.S. kids aged 12 to 17 are vaccinated against Covid” – 42.4% of U.S. teens have received at least one shot of a Covid vaccine and close to one-third of teens are fully vaccinated against the virus, reports MailOnline.
• “New polling shows Australians won’t accept lockdowns once we hit jab targets” – “Politicians encouraging people to report their neighbours for breaching public health orders is likely to have taken a significant toll on social cohesion,” writes Robert Carling in the Spectator Australia.
• “The Unions and the U-turns” – “No one wants to admit they made a terrible mistake,” writes Ben Irvine. “Not the Government. Not the Covid zealots. Not the unions. And not lockdown sceptics themselves – most of them anyway.”
• “The climate scaremongers: A weekly round-up” – “Hydrogen is often represented as the answer to all our problems – clean, green, cheap, abundant and so on. It is in fact none of these things,” writes Paul Homewood in TCW Defending Freedom.
• “Boris, here’s why net-zero emissions by 2050 just aren’t worth it” – “Net-zero just isn’t worth it,” writes Christopher Monckton in Watts Up With That. “Let us do the maths that no government seems to have done. It is not very difficult – but the results are astonishing.”
• “The problem with the Met’s morality policing” – “It’s no wonder that officers sometimes end up finding themselves in trouble when the rules are so inconsistent,” writes Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Spectator.
• “Mercy Muroki hits out at the Scottish Government for urging teachers to take a ‘white privilege test’” – “The last thing I need is patronising teachers overcome by white guilt apologising to my child for their ‘whiteness’ and making her feel like a victim,” says Mercy Muroki on GB News.