Day: 7 January 2023

Children were asked to make drawings depicting their thoughts and feelings during lockdown. The results are heartbreaking.

NHS mask mandates are arbitrary, depending more on where you happen to live than any actual science. Yet they don't seem to be going away, writes Paul Stevens.

The Twitter debate between Peter Hitchens and Carl Benjamin, AKA Sargon, is probably the most epic of the year to date. Read a summary in the Daily Sceptic of Benjamin’s reflections on it.

Censorship on social media has contributed to the devastating impact of pandemic measures by shutting down debate about harms and effectiveness. The return of dissenting voices to Twitter is something to celebrate.

The world’s reliance on hi tech solutions such as electric cars and wind turbines to fix climate and ecological crises is “perpetuating racism”, according to the Guardian. Oh dear.

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.