As the EU threatens to fight the rising imports of Chinese electric cars with big new tariffs, the UK, under "farcical" Net Zero laws, is set to do the opposite and force UK car makers to subsidise their Chinese rivals.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Marianna Spring's disregard for the truth, Róisín Murphy's sweet revenge and Gavin Newsom's lockdown mea culpa.
A new paper estimates that China saw 1.9 million excess deaths after it abandoned Zero Covid. The Chinese turned their entire society upside down fighting Covid, and in the end did no better than the Swedes.
A major new review from the Royal Society has concluded that lockdowns and masks were “unequivocally” effective against Covid. But many of the authors are based in China and it was peer-reviewed by Neil Ferguson.
Republican Senator Rand Paul is recommending the top prosecutor in Washington, D.C., pursue an investigation and possible criminal charges against Dr. Anthony Fauci for allegedly lying under oath about COVID-19 origins.
It's claimed that the mistake with Covid was rejecting a mitigation strategy in favour of a novel suppression one which came from China. But on closer inspection this distinction collapses.
Who was behind the lab leak cover-up? A close look at the backroom discussions in early 2020 reveals the most likely suspects.
China is engaged in a "whole of state" assault on the U.K. and the Government’s approach has been "completely inadequate", according to a report by Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee.
A renowned scientist who led the condemnation of the Covid lab leak theory privately believed it was "highly likely", leaked messages show.
Dr Roger Watson makes his first trip to China since Covid and finds some surprises, including a society less visibly scarred by lockdown than the UK and a senior nurse who says she was never required to wear a face mask.
