Andrew Bridgen MP has criticised the Government for "trying to aggressively coerce young people" into getting 'jabbed' with threats of vaccine passports, but says the plans would not pass through the House of Commons.

Millions of Brits will be offered a Pfizer vaccine booster later this year, even if their first two doses were from another provider, because it has proved to be more effective against the Delta Covid variant.

A rough calculation based on recent death data from PHS suggests that, with 87% of deaths in the vaccinated, vaccine effectiveness against death may be considerably less than studies have suggested.

A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about Covid and other areas of warranted scepticism in the past 24 hours – not just in Britain, but around the world.

Fears over the Delta variant could push the U.S. Defence Secretary to recommend that the Covid vaccine should be mandated for all 1.3 million active-duty troops. The final decision would lie with President Joe Biden.

The idea that proof of Covid vaccination is required to travel abroad "is a reality... in this new world", says Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, who believes this could be "a feature [of foreign travel] for evermore".

MailOnline has a harrowing story about a woman who discovered Mexico has been placed on the red list as she was flying to Mexico City yesterday. Unfortunately, the cheapest flight home before Sunday is £6,878.

The number of 'pings' sent out by the NHS Covid app in a week has finally fallen but remains very high, with almost 400,000 people in England and Wales alone having been told to isolate by the app in just seven days.

Last week I reported that data from PHS showed that 87% of the deaths added in the most recent week were in the vaccinated, giving a VE of just 46%. This week's data is very different, but it is a reporting artefact.

A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about Covid and other areas of warranted scepticism in the past 24 hours – not just in Britain, but around the world.

Bristol's Prof Philip Thomas admits he was wrong about the size of the Delta wave, but now predicts no winter surge. I think he's wrong again, and for the same reason – a misunderstanding of herd immunity.

“Nobody really knows what’s going on”, says John Edmunds. But there are at least nine previous examples where cases fell in the absence of restrictions.

We have published a letter from Iceland in the Daily Sceptic: "High vaccination rates will not bring us back our freedom or save us from the dystopia of a permanent dictatorship run by the public health establishment."

Complaints of "prison-like" conditions at quarantine hotels, costing Red List travellers £1,750 for 10 days, don't seem to have led to any improvements, with one Brit now saying his hotel has a rodent infestation.

If you don’t get vaccinated against Covid, you won’t be able to enjoy your life, young people are told in the latest Government ad campaign which nods to the introduction of vaccine passports later this year.

Northern Ireland has become the first U.K. nation to extend its vaccine rollout to healthy 16 and 17 year-olds, and reports suggest that young people are "excited" to get 'jabbed'.

PHE's latest technical briefing on the variants of concern has some key data on the performance of the vaccines.

A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about Covid and other areas of warranted scepticism in the past 24 hours – not just in Britain, but around the world.

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation remains largely opposed to the vaccination of younger teenagers and children, despite having given the green light for the vaccination of healthy 16 and 17 year-olds.

I'm a QPR fan and have decided to create a substack blog about following the team this season. After 16 months of writing about COVID-19, I thought it would be a blessed relief to write about football for a change.

We're publishing an original article today by Dr Sinéad Murphy, a Research Associate in Philosophy at Newcastle University, on the parallels between witch-hunts and discrimination against the unvaccinated.