Did People Fear the Virus or Fear the Lockdowns?
4 January 2024
Escaping the BBC-ification of Culture
4 January 2024
by J. Sorel
Three charts show the devastating impact that Covid lockdowns had on U.K. public finances as the IFS think tank warns that neither Labour nor the Tories have any room for tax cuts or spending splurges.
It is usually assumed that in March 2020 people were panicked over getting the virus. But Jeffrey Tucker says that the primary fear he saw at that time was of some extreme response by Government.
The BBC's latest piece of climate change misinformation is to claim that global warming is behind a rise in lightning deaths in Bangladesh. But it's utter nonsense, says David Hansard.
The Director of a new female-led Star Wars film has said she "enjoys making men uncomfortable" as critics warn that her film will be Disney's biggest woke flop yet.
Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Stephen Hawking, David Copperfield, Michael Jackson and Alan Dershowitz have been named in relation to a lawsuit filed against Jeffrey Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
The Associated Press worries that Claudine Gay's resignation will lead to plagiarism being weaponised by conservatives against Left-wing academics. Why, is that because they're all plagiarists, asks Eugyppius.
The National Theatre bookshop epitomises the BBC-ification of 'Culture' into a Public Sphere melange. A new play, The Motive and the Cue, avoids this trap, but still ultimately fails, says J Sorel.
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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