News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Wielding her newfound omniscience, Joanna Gray reveals five game-changing messages that would guarantee victory in the General Election for any party that adopts them, starting with 'Women cannot have penises'.
Why does the NHS become less productive every year, despite growing numbers of doctors and huge splurges of cash? A new report actually gets the answer right, for once.
Prof Neil Ferguson is denying responsibility for lockdown, telling the Covid Inquiry that scientists only set out evidence for ministers. Yet his infamous March 2020 report stated that lockdown was the only option.
Nick Rendell digs into the evidence to expose once more the lie that locking down sooner would have made any difference – a claim that seems to be taken as read by the Covid Inquiry.
Patrick Vallance branded his Chief Medical Officer colleague Chris Whitty a "delayer", it has emerged, as the former Chief Scientific Adviser tells the Covid Inquiry future lockdowns must be "harder and earlier".
COVID-19 was not dangerous enough to justify cutting short vaccine trials as the vaccine had to be "very safe", Chris Whitty advised the Government in the early weeks of the outbreak, it has emerged.
The Lockdown Files continue to bring out scandalous revelations about how pandemic management by WhatsApp was conducted. Here are some of the top stories from Wednesday.
The blame game starts as MHRA passes the buck, writing in an FOI reply that "all the Covid vaccine authorisation decisions were taken by the Government Minister". Time for MPs to turn up the heat on the regulator.
In the last year, there has been an excess of 21,841 cardiovascular deaths. The data suggest it isn’t caused by a fall in drug treatment. The Government should do better to get to the bottom of what is really driving it.
Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance are marking their own homework with their 'independent' report on lockdowns, and no surprises that they omit to highlight any of the glaring failures in the approach they took.
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