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by Jonathan Barr
18 July 2021 2:27 AM

  • “Children will only get Covid vaccines if vulnerable” – Under guidance due to be issued on Monday, Covid jabs will only be offered to children between 12 and 15 who are deemed vulnerable to Covid or who live with adults who are immunosuppressed, according to the Telegraph
  • “Boris Johnson cancels plans for Churchillian Freedom Day launch” – The Prime Minister Boris Johnson was planning to give a Churchillian speech at a location associated with the wartime leader to celebrate the ending of Covid restrictions, according to the Daily Mail, but it has been cancelled due to the climb in cases
  • “Unvaccinated less likely to have jab if Covid passports become mandatory, says expert” – An ORB Survey of more than 2,000 people who had not yet taken the jab found that the prospect of vaccine passports made 44% of them less likely to accept it, according to the Telegraph
  • “Independent Sage is run by Left-wing group including anti-Brexit activists” – Independent SAGE, the group that has regularly criticised the Government for not locking down hard enough, is run by the Citizens, according to the Telegraph, a group founded by Carole Cadwalladr, a well-known anti-Brexit conspiracy theorist
  • “Tube lines suspended and partly closed as staff ‘pinged’ by Covid app” – The Metropolitan Line was suspended and the Piccadilly and District Lines partially closed, according to MailOnline, after control room staff were instructed to self-isolate
  • “Covid growth rates are slowing in eight of England’s 10 hot-spots” – The third wave is slowing down in many of the country’s hotspots, but experts fear that infection rates could speed up in the rest of the country, according to MailOnline
  • “Boris promised freedom… Get ready for the next lockdown ” – Tomorrow is ‘Freedom Day’, but Dan Hodges of the Mail On Sunday does not think we’ll get to enjoy our newly granted freedoms for long
  • “Freedom-loving Boris can’t stop flirting with authoritarianism – and it’s all our fault” – In his latest Sunday Telegraph column, Dan Hannan blames the mood of the British public for Boris Johnson’s new found authoritarianism
  • “The young were overlooked during the pandemic. Now it’s happening all over again on the way out” – “For young adults awaiting their second jab, there’ll be months more of quarantine and Covid tests,” says Kate Andrews in the Sunday Telegraph
  • “The Most Dangerous Plague” – Dr Hugh Willbourn offers three indications to identify a sound and positive way forward in the over-policed world that will follow lockdown
  • “Swathes of England fans report coming down with ‘Wembley variant’ after Euro 2020 final” – Large numbers of football fans have tested positive following the Euros final, according to the i. Some fans said that “pretty much everyone” they knew who were at the stadium on Sunday are now self-isolating
  • “Anger as England extends restrictions on France travel” – The U.K. Government’s decision to place France in a new ‘amber plus’ category has caused widespread anger and frustration, France 24 reports
  • “England’s lifting of Covid lockdowns is a danger to the entire world, experts warn” – Zero Covid fanatics gathered at a virtual summit on Friday, according to CNBC, where they criticised the U.K. Government’s plans to ease COVID-19 restrictions as unethical and dangerous for the whole planet
  • “This isn’t freedom day. It’s lockdown outsourced” – “With different rules for different companies, Freedom Day is going to be chaos,” says Charlotte Lytton in the Telegraph
  • “I believe the real purpose of masks is social control” – “How far tomorrow looks like a real Freedom Day will be up to all of us and our determination to return to normal life,” says Graham Brady in the Mail On Sunday. “It is time for us all now to start using our own judgment”
  • “We’ve de-clawed Covid… now give our freedom back” – “The very limited nature of the freedom we will receive tomorrow will leave many dissatisfied and disappointed,” says this Mail On Sunday editorial. “If we are to recover as a society and an economy, Ministers are going to need to be more confident of their own success”
  • “Visions of the future” – Writing for LeftLockdownSceptics, Raminder Mulla describes three potential scenarios for what society might eventually look like, post “freedom day”
  • “War and Covid: The Flickering of Civilisation’s Lamp” – Omar Khan takes a look at Heartbreak House, George Bernard Shaw’s play about a “cultured, leisured Europe” drifting towards destruction in the First World War, and finds parallels with the world today
  • “Doctors urge teachers to reject Covid vaccination for children” – The Conservative Woman reproduces a letter addressed to teachers from the U.K. Medical Freedom Alliance about the ethical concerns about vaccinating children
  • “Tess Lawrie explains why the vaccine rollout must be halted” – Writing for the Conservative Woman, Neville Hodgkinson explains why Dr. Tess Lawrie wants the vaccine rollout to be paused
  • “That Nurse Who Asks Questions” – In the latest episode of the Real Normal, Lord Rickmansworth and Don interview Jenna Platt, a nurse and anti-lockdown activist
  • “Darkness has ascended upon the enlightened country” – By completely cutting off the unvaccinated from their daily life, Emmanuel Macron has segregated the French territory into two categories, the vaccinated and the unvaccinated, with the latter being stripped of all its rights, says Julien Yvon in Bournbrook
  • “France to require 24-hour negative Covid test for unvaccinated travellers from U.K. & five EU countries” – As of next week, anyone visiting France from the U.K., Spain, Portugal, Greece or the Netherlands will have to present a negative PCR or antigen test that was taken less than 24 hours before departure, according to RT
  • “All of Britain put on Denmark red list – apart from Wales” – Denmark’s Foreign Ministry advises against travel to all parts of Britain apart from Wales, Nation Cymru reports, the first time an EU country has differentiated between the U.K.’s four nations for the purpose of entry requirements
  • “Nearly 1,000 people infected with Covid after Utrecht festival” – Nearly a thousand people who attended the July 3rd-4th Veknipt festival in Utrecht have tested positive, according to NL Times. The organisers are surprised, as there were many Covid security protocols in place
  • “Mykonos bans music in bars after England players filmed in restaurant singalong” – The Greek island of Mykonos has banned music and singing in bars after four England players were filmed singing “Sweet Caroline”, according to the Telegraph, and introduced a night-time curfew
  • “Disney moves 2,000 jobs from California to Florida’s business-friendly climate” – The Walt Disney Company will be moving 2,000 jobs from its California HQ to Florida, the Post Millennial reports. CEO Bob Chapek has criticised California’s lockdown restrictions, which kept Disneyland closed while the park in Florida was open
  • “Harvesting the Sickening Fruit of Lockdowns” – Peter C. Earle looks at how lockdown restrictions have led to an increase in overdose fatalities for the AIER
  • “Protest convoy of trucks at Sydney Harbour Bridge and Anzac Bridge following changes to COVID-19 rules” – Sydney Harbour Bridge and Anzac Bridge were blocked off by about 100 large trucks who were honking their horns loudly, the Weekend Australian says, in protest against the latest Covid measures
  • “If the premiers are keeping us safe from the virus, who is keeping us safe from the premiers?” – Writing for Spectator Australia, James Macpherson takes aim at Dan Andrews, Premier of the State of Victoria, after he described anti-lockdown protestors as shameful
  • “Meet the Covid billionaires” – “Redistribution of wealth is alive and well within the Covid pandemic,” says Alexandra Marshall in Spectator Australia. “Just like old school socialism, the loose change of the working class has been siphoned into the pockets of global bureaucracies, big business, politicians, and union heavyweights”
  • “Freedom Day? More like Groundhog Day” – GB News’s Neil Oliver is unimpressed by ‘Freedom Day’

Neil Oliver: Freedom Day? More like Groundhog Day pic.twitter.com/9FaRRtD5rT

— GB News (@GBNEWS) July 17, 2021
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