Stasiland 2.0: A new law passed by Germany’s left-wing Government will enable the state to sack civil servants accused of criticising the constitution and force private companies to set up snitching portals.
We like to think lockdown sceptics have won the argument, but a group in America demanding we lockdown forever in the name of ‘equity’ – the People’s CDC – is rapidly gaining influence.
Middle-income countries like India and South Africa fared worse during the pandemic than low-income countries like Central African Republic. Though this may be partly due to poor data quality in low-income countries.
Testing incoming visitors from China is pointless, argues Professor David Livermore. We cannot stop new Covid variants emerging in the West and quarantining infected Chinese travellers will make no difference.
The Met Office claims – with predictable jubilation – that 2022 was the UK’s hottest year on record. But questions remain about the high recorded on July 19th at a military airbase housing two squadrons of Typhoons.
When did the coronavirus first appear? The evidence from testing and sequencing of stored samples suggests it emerged some time between July and November 2019 and circulated silently across the globe during that winter.
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.
