Not seeing loved ones at least once a month and living alone significantly increases people’s risk of dying, academics at the University of Glasgow have found. Does this help explain pandemic deaths?
Free speech needs saving from the tyranny of woke minorities, former Supreme Court Justice Jonathan Sumption has said, as he warns of the devastating impact of "online lynch mobs".
The Munk debate on the 'crisis of liberalism' missed the plot, says Bruce Pardy. "No one mentioned Covid restrictions. No one mentioned the weaponisation of the legal system. No one mentioned government censorship."
The scandal of the Covid vaccines – that they were far too high-risk medicines to give to people at low risk of the disease they were intended to prevent – is finally going mainstream, says Allison Pearson.
Returning to Hong Kong for the first time since Covid, Dr Roger Watson says that the creeping absorption of the region into China is palpable as Beijing dismantles many of its former freedoms.
The problem with Jordan Peterson's 'anti-woke Davos' ARC conference was its air of surrender, says J Sorel. "The unspoken assumption behind most of the speeches was that a flight to the hills would be necessary."
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.
