Witless and Unbalanced have warned that Britain could face a “prolonged period” of excess deaths due to the collateral damage caused by the lockdowns. No, really? Who could have possibly predicted that?!?
According to a leaked Russian government opinion poll, popular support for the war in Ukraine is beginning to weaken. Twenty-five per cent of respondents want the war to continue vs 55% who want a negotiated settlement.
The demand for an end to the ban on on-shore wind farms is bizarre. As Matt Ridley points out in the Spectator, they’re not banned and the energy they produce is expensive and makes gas more expensive, not less.
It's hard to make sense of a policy that spends billions on lockdowns to 'save lives' while also assisting many of the same people to commit suicide.
A simplistic use of 'herd immunity' led to fanciful claims that COVID-19 would disappear once 60% of the population was vaccinated. But is there a dark side to aiming at 'herd immunity' through vaccines?
A scandal is developing in Hungary concerning possibly-illegal foreign financing of the opposition party. Documents declassified by the Hungarian parliament suggest the U.S. government may have been involved.
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the virus and the vaccines, the ‘climate emergency’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
