Freedom fight
ONCE the vulnerable have been vaccinated we will set Britain free, the Government promised. What happened to that?
The overwhelming majority have had one dose. Three million have had two.
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The jabs progress is spectacular.
But now the Government has won the power to restrict our lives for six more months.
Covid passports may become a thing in pubs and elsewhere.
Masks and social distancing are talked of as fixtures for the foreseeable future.
But the vaccines work. Barring some as-yet unknown variant any third wave will kill or hospitalise a fraction of the first two.
If the jabs render Covid no worse a threat than flu, we must return to full normality in the summer.
And don’t just swallow the public health brigade’s advice, Prime Minister.
They’ll never surrender control.
Broken China
BORIS Johnson may not want a Cold War with China. China seems to want it anyway.
Its “sanctions” on a few admirably outspoken MPs are a futile salvo by a regime which considers free speech, like democracy, an existential threat.
Its human rights record is rank.
Among other vile abuses, it has imprisoned a million Uighur Muslims who now pick cotton in Xinjiang like slaves in the Confederate states 160 years ago.
Boris insists he wants stronger economic ties with Beijing. Yet, rightly, he “stands firmly” behind the MPs.
How long can he sustain both positions?
Idea is junked
WHAT took the Government so long to scrap the ludicrous proposed ban on online ads for fast food?
The scientific evidence showed it would cut a child’s daily calories by about two . . . that’s a biscuit crumb. All at a monstrous cost to businesses.
Trending In The News pointed this out last November.
It shows the power of the nanny-state lobby that this mad idea wasn’t immediately laughed out of the room.
But we welcome No10 seeing the light now.
How about applying the same common sense to other failed measures?
Like the sugar tax, which won’t trim an ounce off anyone’s weight.
Then concentrate on the real solutions:
Better education on diet — and exercise.
Oprah and out
MEGHAN’S dad has handed Oprah a dilemma as well as a letter.
Is the TV host satisfied with the Royal quitters’ disputable “truth”? Or is she interested in both sides of the story?
That would mean giving Thomas Markle HIS two hours unchallenged on national TV, and perhaps the same performative expressions of sympathy with which Oprah egged on his daughter.
Don’t hold your breath waiting, Thomas.
