Polly Toynbee's Guardian column laments an age of anti-vaccine unreason, citing that fewer than half of England's frontline NHS staff got the flu jab and that children's routine vaccination rates have fallen below the WHO's 95% herd-immunity threshold. Blaming Robert F Kennedy Jr's messaging and post-Covid mistrust among staff, she argues vaccination should be compulsory for NHS workers, calls for a national vaccination day, and wants Edward Jenner's statue returned from Kensington Gardens to his Trafalgar Square plinth.