Day: 16 December 2022

An NHS Trust in the Midlands is advertising for a ‘Director of Lived Experience’ – salary £115,000. Bit tone deaf, given that a newly-qualified NHS nurse earns about £27,000.

In a special Christmas fairy tale for the Daily Sceptic, David Stacey imagines how different the last two-and-a-half years would have been if Anders Tegnell had been in charge of Britain’s response to the pandemic.

Markets are good, but they can't solve the problem of sky-high gas prices overnight. In a recent survey, more than half of German manufacturers said they will have to cut production over the next six months.

Non-respiratory mortality varies little from year to year, changing by just 1.3% in the six years from 2015-2020. However, 2021 has registered a 3.7% increase and 2022 is projected to show a catastrophic 10% increase.

Flu hospitalisations in England have jumped by more than 40% in a week as they overtake Covid admissions for the first time and the NHS braces for one of the worst outbreaks of the virus in recent years.

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.