The Week According To . . . Caroline Farrow

Delighted to have Caroline join us again to give her views on the weeks big stories including Honor based abuse, Womens rights, Trans and the Olympics, Cash prize for the double jabbed?, Double Jabs for airline employees, New variants resistant to the vaccines?, No quarantine for the Climate Minister?, 9 out of ten have antibodies? and much more! 
Caroline is a campaign director at CitizenGO, a Journalist, writer and media commentator.

Follow Caroline at:  @CF_Farrow   https://www.carolinefarrow.net https://www.citizengo.org/

Links to stories being discussed this episode
Honour Based Abuse

Sarah Hussein: Tribute to Bury woman found on fire in street
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-58104988

Nineteen men arrested as part of investigation into child sexual exploitation in Bradford
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/nineteen-men-arrested-part-investigation-21224780

Women’s rights

First transgender athlete to win an Olympic medal as Canadian footballer Quinn aims for gold against Sweden
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9868871/First-transgender-Olympic-athlete-win-Olympic-medal.html

Trans Rights Protest
https://laurakbuzz.com/2021/07/18/august-6th-trans-rights-protest-demands/

Covid

Cash prize jackpot offered for double-jabbed students
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-58115658

United will require its U.S. employees to be vaccinated, a first for country’s major airlines
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/06/united-airlines-vaccine-mandate-employees.html

New COVID variants Epsilon, Lambda may be resistant to vaccines, early lab studies show
https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2021/08/new-covid-variants-epsilon-lambda-may-be-resistant-to-vaccines-early-lab-studies-show.html

Six red-list countries in a world tour of 30 nations… but NO Covid quarantine: Climate minister Alok Sharma repeatedly uses Crown exemption to dodge isolation rules other travellers have to follow
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9866459/The-height-hypocrisy-Climate-minister-Alok-Sharma-jetted-30-nations-seven-months.html

Vaccinate or repent, Russian church says amid hundreds of daily COVID-19 deaths
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/vaccinate-or-repent-russian-church-says-amid-hundreds-daily-covid-19-deaths-2021-07-05/

9 out of 10 people have Covid antibodies 
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/coronaviruscovid19infectionsurveyantibodyandvaccinationdatafortheuk/7july2021

US military to announce mandatory vaccine requirement for troops
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-military-mandatory-covid-vaccine-b1897115.html

Double vaccination will be needed to travel 'forevermore', says UK Government minister
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/double-vaccination-needed-travel-for-21230736

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