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Aug 4, 2021 16:19
The UK’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has recommended that all 16 and 17 year olds be included in the country’s vaccine rollout, with adolescents soon to be offered their first dose of Pfizer’s jab.
- Former UK defence official behind classified dossier bus stop leak was tipped to become NATO ambassador – reports
Media sources have identified the senior UK official who mislaid classified defence papers – detailing sensitive Crimean coast operations – as Angus Lapsley. He was apparently being groomed as the country’s next envoy to NATO.Aug 4, 2021 11:41 - British study shows children unlikely to contract severe Covid as UK reportedly set to begin vaccinating teensA new study has found that prolonged illness from Covid among minors is uncommon, reaffirming data showing that the virus is rarely deadly for children. The findings come as the UK prepares to start giving teens the shot.Aug 4, 2021 14:47
- ‘Just more virtue signalling’: Barbie creates doll in likeness of British Covid vaccine developer, but not everyone is convincedThe creators of Barbie have announced that they’re making a doll in the image of coronavirus vaccine developer Sarah Gilbert as part of their ‘role model’ range, but while many love the idea, others think it’s a step too far.Aug 4, 2021 10:52
- ‘Get vaccinated’: Jeremy Clarkson disappoints anti-vaxxers after anti-lockdown rant & labeling SAGE ‘communists’Outspoken TV-star-turned-farmer Jeremy Clarkson has disappointed many vaccine sceptics after his rant against the government’s lockdown experts was seemingly misinterpreted by some.Aug 4, 2021 15:01
- Britain’s youngsters, excited for Covid shots, tell anti-vaxxers to leave them alone after govt offers vaccines to minorsMany of Britain’s youngsters have shot down anti-vaxxers, sharing their readiness to get inoculated against Covid-19 after the government backed shots for teens and vaccine sceptics started the hashtag ‘leaveourkidsalone’.Aug 5, 2021 10:31
- UK to extend Covid jab rollout to 16-to-17 year olds, vaccine advisory group saysThe UK’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has recommended that all 16 and 17 year olds be included in the country’s vaccine rollout, with adolescents soon to be offered their first dose of Pfizer’s jab.Aug 4, 2021 16:19
- ‘Get vaccinated’: Jeremy Clarkson disappoints anti-vaxxers after anti-lockdown rant & labeling SAGE ‘communists’Outspoken TV-star-turned-farmer Jeremy Clarkson has disappointed many vaccine sceptics after his rant against the government’s lockdown experts was seemingly misinterpreted by some.Aug 4, 2021 15:01
- British study shows children unlikely to contract severe Covid as UK reportedly set to begin vaccinating teensA new study has found that prolonged illness from Covid among minors is uncommon, reaffirming data showing that the virus is rarely deadly for children. The findings come as the UK prepares to start giving teens the shot.Aug 4, 2021 14:47
- Former UK defence official behind classified dossier bus stop leak was tipped to become NATO ambassador – reportsMedia sources have identified the senior UK official who mislaid classified defence papers – detailing sensitive Crimean coast operations – as Angus Lapsley. He was apparently being groomed as the country’s next envoy to NATO.Aug 4, 2021 11:41
- ‘Just more virtue signalling’: Barbie creates doll in likeness of British Covid vaccine developer, but not everyone is convincedThe creators of Barbie have announced that they’re making a doll in the image of coronavirus vaccine developer Sarah Gilbert as part of their ‘role model’ range, but while many love the idea, others think it’s a step too far.Aug 4, 2021 10:52
- Debate rages as Labour MP David Lammy questions why ‘Black English’ is not a census optionA black Labour MP has reignited debate on race identity in the UK, complaining that the 2021 census did not give him or his family the ability to correctly define their ethnic group, asking why he couldn’t be “black English.”Aug 3, 2021 17:18
- ‘Parallel pandemic’: England has experienced record-high drug deaths during COVID-19, charities warnEngland and Wales suffered a record high number of drug deaths in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic, following in the footsteps of Scotland and the United States, which experienced a similar rise.Aug 3, 2021 12:50
- Conflict of interest inquiry probes UK MPs sitting on informal parliamentary groups while paid by industryBritish MPs who sit on influential parliamentary groups while holding plum industry jobs are the subject of a conflict of interest inquiry by the House of Commons Standards Committee, which is probing backdoor lobbying.Aug 2, 2021 17:25
- UK authorities released Streatham terrorist days before 2020 knife attack despite concerns over ‘extremist views’, inquest hearsSudesh Amman, the knife-wielding attacker who stabbed two people on Streatham High Road last year, was released from prison days before the assault, despite officials raising concerns about his “extremist views.”Aug 2, 2021 16:21
- Scottish minister cries ‘discrimination’ as kid is rejected from nursery over ‘ethnic-sounding’ name… but not everyone’s convincedScotland’s health minister has reported a nursery school to watchdogs after claiming his daughter’s application was twice refused on the grounds that her name is Muslim. He says he is seeking legal advice.Aug 2, 2021 15:36
- ‘Not sure the NHS will be so cheerful’: GB viewers divided as presenter says he’ll ‘cheerfully risk catching Covid’GB News has divided its viewers again after presenter Neil Oliver said his willingness to catch Covid-19 and pass it on to others was an expression of his desire for freedom, likening it to the Battle of Britain.Aug 2, 2021 13:11
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