News Round-Up

• “Schools will need to reintroduce tougher Covid measures in weeks, warn unions” – Families have been warned to expect significant disruption to learning by end of September because of rise in virus ‘cases’, reports the Telegraph.
• “We must urgently invest in mental health” – Young people suffering from the effects of lockdown are in dire of need proper support, writes Stephen Fry in the Telegraph.
• “NHS bosses fear Rishi Sunak will leave them billions short” – NHS leaders fear that Rishi Sunak is offering them £5 billion less than they need to deal with Covid next year and have warned of a “frighteningly large” shortfall, reports the Times.
• “The pandemic exposes human nature: 10 evolutionary insights” – “Understanding human nature will enhance our ability to address the aftermath of Covid, as it has disrupted so many of our fundamental human activities,” write the authors of a new paper published in PNAS.
• “Up to 700,000 vaccine passports hit by NHS blunders as officials record wrong data” – Hundreds of thousands of jab records contain errors, leaving some double jabbed people without proof they need to travel, reports the Telegraph.
• “Beware, Boris: Britain is hurtling towards a winter of discontent” – Soaring inflation, spiralling public debt and stroppy trade unions have created the perfect storm, writes Liam Halligan in the Telegraph.
• “Look her in the eyes” – “How much did we spend on the policies intended to prevent death from Covid, and how does it compare to the amount we usually spend preventing death,” asks Richard Lyon in his latest substack update.
• “Covid Vaccines and the Delta Variant” – “Government agencies should be studying North Dakota to see what they are doing right and Hawaii to see what they are doing wrong, because the answers are not vaccination rates,” writes Gilbert G. Berdine in AIER.
• “Covid, a brilliant way of transferring money from the poor to the rich” – “The old saying ‘Follow the money’ is truer today than it has ever been,” writes Harry Hopkins in TCW Defending Freedom.
• “Where lockdown is a fairytale” – In Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto, hostages are happy, writes Suzannah Lipscomb in UnHerd.
• “Judge orders Ohio hospital to treat Covid patient with Ivermectin” – Desperate to save her husband’s life, Julie Smith appealed to Butler County Common Pleas asking for a judge to order staff at the hospital where her husband is ventilated to try it on him, reports MailOnline.
• “A widely shared study on ivermectin might be wrong” – “I don’t know whether ivermectin is effective for preventing or treating Covid. But this study doesn’t provide strong evidence that it is,” writes Noah Carl in his latest substack update.
• “As Australia’s Politicians Enforce Yet Another Lockdown, Small Businesses Keep Suffering” – “As Melbourne’s latest lockdown is extended yet again, small business owners such as myself are forced to determine at what point continuing to incur more debt becomes pointless,” writes Geoff Parkes in Quillette.
• “Zero-Covid is wishful thinking if Australia wants to rejoin the world” – “Even if Australia changes direction soon, Covid’s near-fatal infection of its body politic will take a long time to eliminate,” writes Terry Barnes in the Spectator.
• “Distressing moment a little girl sits in her handcuffed father’s lap” – A father was stopped by police on a Sydney walking path and arrested as they spoke to him for not wearing a mask, reports the Mail Australia.
• “Is Thailand’s PM Advancing Beyond the Chinese (Zero-Tolerance) and American (Vaccine-Centric Eradication) Paradigm Acknowledging the Need to Coexist with Covid?” – “According to local media sources there is a growing recognition that at least among the heads of this Southeast Asian nation that the people will have to learn to live with the virus,” reports Trial Site.
• “How much will it cost the U.K. to get to net zero?” – Experts call for clarification on who will pay for upfront investment to achieve carbon emissions goal, reports The Week.
• “Newly-single Michael Gove parties the night away at Scottish nightclub” – The usually reserved minister, 54, was filmed throwing shapes on the dance floor at Bohemia in Aberdeen city centre, pausing only to shake hands with fellow partygoers, reports MailOnline.
• “BBC plagued by partisanship? Row over appointment of ‘left-wing’ Editor continues to fuel debate about broadcaster’s impartiality” – A controversial new hire at the BBC has reignited discussion about the outlet’s political neutrality, while also prompting allegations that the British Government has too much influence over the public broadcaster, reports Russia Today.
• “Extinction Rebellion gets to protest while Covid goes on holiday” – “Their concept of law and order does not exist to ensure stability by providing fairness and an accepted arena in which to play politics, but in the friend/enemy distinction,” writes Luke Perry in Bournbrook Magazine.
• “Pensioner repaints black figure on totem pole white after ‘woke’ neighbour’s ‘racism’ claims” – Native American enthusiast Brian Connery has painted over the grinning face on his 10ft statue after a villager complained of its “racist overtones”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Met police force ‘considers plan to introduce gender-neutral uniforms’” – The force could be in breach of the 2010 Equality Act by not providing separate uniforms for non-binary and gender-fluid officers, reports the MailOnline.
• “The Manchester Pride video shows you can now be ‘the wrong kind of gay’” – A young man being mobbed by trans rights supporters highlights the delusion of those who imagine themselves to be progressive, writes Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph.
• “At Manchester’s alternative Pride march a supporter of gay rights group LGB Alliance was surrounded by a howling mob of trans activists” – Helen Joyce, author of Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality, says on talkRADIO that this recent incident marks the return of homophobia.