Day: 13 March 2023

In this week's London Calling, the arguments are about Gary Lineker – it's just another distraction from what’s really going on, says James – and the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.

Gary Lineker today refused to apologise and used his reinstatement by the BBC to hammer home his views on migrants, saying those crossing the channel were fleeing persecution. What, in France?

The contamination of mRNA vaccines with DNA is far greater than initially thought at up to 35%, and the DNA's role in inducing human cells to produce the spike protein long term has been confirmed.

A heavily-criticised study that concluded lockdown saved 3 million lives in Europe has been cited 2,779 times. More-rigorous studies concluding lockdown had little impact have garnered far fewer citations.

Thorsteinn Siglaugsson has fact-checked the fact checker whose work is being used to discredit the Cochrane review on masking which concluded there's no high-quality evidence that face masks reduce the spread of COVID-19.

The moral grandstanding of Net Zero advocates is a little hard to stomach, given that the policy is contingent on child and slave labour, writes Chris Morrison, the Daily Sceptic's Environment Editor.

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.