News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
With their latest statement the Cochrane Editors continue to mislead and spin, says Dr Tom Jefferson. While they have left the famous mask study unchanged, they have failed to retract the statements that cast doubt on it.
James May has triggered a twitterstorm by accusing Pride of authoritarian tendencies with Too Much Bunting. But he's right, says Julian Mann – and it's Christians who are bearing the brunt of the growing intolerance.
The BBC has hailed a green election letter from 408 "distinguished climate scientists" that is signed by an assortment of psychologists, accountants, lawyers, engineers and landscape designers.
Mark Steyn, the former GB News presenter, has taken Ofcom to court accusing it of "killing his career" after he questioned Covid vaccines on air, with the regulator saying his programmes caused "harm to viewers".
When three Covid sceptics bumped into Germany's 'state virologist' Christian Drosten on a campsite they could hardly believe it and made sure to give him a piece of their mind. They've now been fined for "insulting" him.
"The climate scare will crumble sooner than you expect," says Climate: The Movie Producer Tom Nelson. "There's not going to be a moment where people say 'we were wrong'. They're just going to stop talking about it."
The dial is slowly shifting on excess deaths, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson. Suddenly, it's okay to question the vaccine narrative. In Australia there's an official investigation; in the UK the media are waking up.
"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh otherwise they'll kill you." George Bernard Shaw was right, says Frank Haviland. Honesty is still the revolutionary act, today perhaps more than ever.
Cochrane has finally confirmed that its review on the (in)effectiveness of masks will not be changed, over a year after succumbing to pressure from a New York Times writer. But the damage has been done, says Carl Heneghan.
Elon Musk has said "freedom of speech is worth fighting for" after Australia's cyber safety regulator dropped its federal court case over X Corp's refusal to globally block footage it deemed harmful.
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