News Round-Up
16 June 2025
How Covid Killed the Rule of Law
16 June 2025
by Nick McBride
Up to a third of people who tested positive for Covid by PCR test were not contagious and did not need to self-isolate, a new study led by Oxford scientists suggests.
Prof Yaakov Jerris, the Director of a Covid ward in an Israeli hospital, has said between 70% and 80% of the serious cases in his hospital are vaccinated and the vaccine has "no significance regarding severe illness".
GoFundMe has said it is seizing $10 million raised for the Canadian Freedom Convoy and will distribute it to approved charities, prompting accusations of hypocrisy due to its support for violent BLM protests.
Two years on from the first lockdown, Xi Jinping has persuaded the people of China that he has protected them as though a father caring for children. But will Omicron and the Olympics prove his undoing?
Dr David McGrogan, an Associate Professor at Northumbria Law School, asks whether the OGs of the lockdown sceptics' movement should welcome repentant sinners or shun them as bandwagon jumpers?
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.
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