Day: 16 November 2021

A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus — and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.

The 18th of our round-ups of Covid vaccine safety reports and news from a group of medical doctors to inform the debate on vaccination.

A powerful network of climate change activists want to "stamp out climate change misinformation once and for all". And by "misinformation" they mean anything that challenges the prevailing orthodoxy about climate change.

You've heard various climate change fanatics call for lockdowns to be used to reduce carbon emissions. Well, it's starting. India's Supreme Court is calling for a lockdown in New Delhi to combat air pollution.

We're publishing a guest post on the Daily Sceptic by Russell Davis, a blogger who has made a point of travelling to all 27 countries in the E.U. His final trip was to Luxembourg. Unfortunately, it was a bit of a nightmare.

by Russell David "Luxembourg? That’s not a place you visit, it’s somewhere you fly over!" Such was a typical reaction when I told people I was off to the small nation land-locked by Belgium, France and Germany. But I had my reasons. One was that, like my trip to Vienna a month previously, I had paid for a hotel room there in 2020, not been able to use it thanks to the bubonic plague, and unless I filled it before the end of 2021 I would lose my money. The other reason was that by journeying to Luxembourg I would finally have visited all 27 E.U. countries! In 2018, on arriving back at Bristol Airport from yet another trip to Gran Canaria (a rubbish one) I noticed a poster listing all E.U. members. It was in that moment the idea struck me. I realised I’d been to 15 of the countries already, over many years, so why not set a target of doing all of them? In the spirit of the slogan on the T-shirt I got from Spiked, “Love Europe, hate the E.U.”, in a mad flurry I set about visiting the likes of Bulgaria, Romania, Estonia, Latvia and more – and I loved it. That was until the governments of E.U. member states decided to go against all of their pandemic preparedness ...

Data from the National Child Measurement Programme has unveiled that childhood obesity rates soared over one year of repeated lockdowns and restrictions.

Jamie Dimon, the Chief Executive of JP Morgan, was given legal permission to enter Hong Kong without having to abide by the territory's 21-day hotel quarantine law.

The Chinese Government has infiltrated and seized control of Western environmental institutions to ensure that Beijing is untouched by criticism and demands to phase out fossil fuels.

According to the British Heart Foundation, nearly 65,000 people were waiting six weeks or more for a heart scan in September, putting lives at risk.