Jordan Peterson: Net Zero Alarmism is a Mental Illness
22 May 2025
by Will Jones
News Round-Up
23 May 2025
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.
After two months of excess mortality, January's age-standardised mortality rate was 14% below the five-year average. This provides strong evidence for mortality displacement – the pandemic brought deaths forward.
Conservative MPs have called for fracking to be resumed with "the vigour of a national war effort" as the invasion of Ukraine has exposed Europe's dependence on Russian gas.
We now face the entirely likely and illogical situation whereby HMRC will attempt to close businesses which may have a Government-backed loan, the cost to the taxpayer of which may be higher than the actual debt itself.
Early in the pandemic a narrow scientific 'groupthink' took hold, which cast those questioning draconian policies as unethical, immoral and fringe – but this smokescreen is finally starting to dissipate.
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