News Round-Up
4 July 2025
Chinese officials want to bring in lockdowns to combat the flu, as the Washington Post argues that U.S. Covid restrictions likely saved "an incalculable number of lives".
Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi, thanks to their access to the Twitter Files, have exposed America's 'Censorship-Industrial Complex'. Needless to say, the U.K. has its own version that's every bit as sinister.
In a new ONS report on vaccine effectiveness, the statistics agency finds that even after adjustments the vaccinated die of non-Covid 50% less than the unvaccinated and admits this means its estimates are unreliable.
Now is the time for action to prevent the crystallisation at international level of the very policies and approaches many of us have railed against at national level for the last three years, writes barrister Adam Cross.
In 2006, Professor Nicholas Stern produced a report on climate that underpinned the Climate Change Act two years later. Looking back, its pessimistic assumptions overestimated 'climate damage' by $1 trillion.
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.
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