Day: 17 March 2022

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.

A new lockdown analysis by David Campbell and Kevin Dowd, entitled "The Abandonment of Good Government in the COVID-19 Crisis” has been published in the Studies in Applied Economics series from Johns Hopkins University.

The UK COVID-19 Public Inquiry has launched a consultation on its terms of reference, which will close on April 7th. Daily Sceptic readers are encouraged to respond with questions that ought to be included.

The problem with arguing we shouldn't arm a country in case it prolongs a war is that it is an aggressors’ charter, blaming defenders for hurting their own people by not surrendering sooner.

What do people in the “non-Mearsheimer camp” believe Ukraine should have done? Even if we blame Russia entirely, an invasion cannot be considered a good outcome, so it’s worth asking how it could have been avoided.

The Online Safety Bill is a missed opportunity. It's not that it will make social media companies even more likely to ban dissenters. It's that it doesn’t do enough to check the already rampant censoriousness of Big Tech.

In this week's London Calling, the talking points are the Online Safety Bill, Putin's faltering invasion, the oikophobia of the Right, Hornblower and the Ipcress File.

Covid alarmists are reporting on the situation in Hong Kong, saying it proves them right in the measures they have backed over the past two years. But deaths remain well below UK levels, and infections are dropping fast.