Day: 7 December 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.

Bill de Blasio's insistence that private sector employees be vaccinated goes beyond almost anything else in the US, where vaccine mandates are limited to the public sector and health care. Let's hope it proves his undoing.

The Office for National Statistics has reported that the number of alcohol deaths increased at a record rate during 2020, with a rise in alcohol consumption observed over the first lockdown.

The group Together has released a press statement announcing its plan to hold an Action Week from December 6th – 10th to try and fight the imposition of vaccine passports in the U.K.

Recent data gathered from South African hospitals unveils that the Omicron variant, while potentially being more transmissible, is less likely to inflict severe illness.

Todholm Primary in Renfrewshire, Scotland, has been closed for a week due to a ‘suspected’ outbreak of the Omicron variant, with many pupils and members of staff currently in self-isolation.

A new study reviews 11 cost-benefit analyses of lockdown, all of which find that the policy did more harm than good. Results “strongly suggest that lockdowns do not have a favorable cost-benefit balance”.

We're publishing an original article on the Daily Sceptic by freelance journalist Chris Morrison disputing the idea that anyone who challenges climate change alarmism is a "conspiracy theorist". Some of them are actually quite respectable.