Day: 22 September 2022

Jacob Rees-Mogg has lifted the fracking ban, arguing that tolerating the risks associated with it is now in the national interest, given the energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine.

“The FSU is going to try to get the law changed so PayPal and other companies can’t deplatform people for expressing political views they disapprove of. I feel like saying to PayPal, ‘You messed with the wrong guy.’”

If we allow woke financial services companies to demonetise individuals and organisations whose political views they disagree with, then free speech is effectively over in the West.

The Bangladesh mask study has been much touted by proponents of mask mandates. But a new critique shows the data are consistent with the intervention having had zero casual impact on the outcome variables.

Australia's disastrous attempt to eliminate the virus cost the country over $938 billion, a new report has found. The lessons of this failed, harmful policy must be learned and the mistakes never repeated.

There is now lots of evidence that COVID-19 was spreading globally by autumn 2019 at the latest. But why then were there no excess deaths until March 2020? New York City may point us to the answer.

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.