News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
The Covid Inquiry is right to name and shame Matt Hancock, says Professor Angus Dalgleish. The then-Health Secretary failed to provide the leadership we needed and abandoned the pandemic plan at the first opportunity.
Primary schools have failed to return to pre-lockdown standards across reading, writing and maths for 10-11 year-olds, new figures reveal.
Net Zero is a high-cost mitigation strategy that can't possibly be better than adaptation, says David Turver – not least because manmade CO2 is clearly not the climate's main control knob.
The second and third Covid lockdowns were the biggest ever mistake made by a British Government in peacetime, Nigel Farage has said. But what about the first one?
Isn't it a bit odd that we're halfway through a General Election and yet the political parties have not sought to discuss their or their opponents' record during the pandemic, asks Brian Monteith.
Why has sperm become 30% more 'sluggish' since 2019? A study of Danish sperm donors found a shocking drop in sperm motility. The researchers blame lockdown, but Alex Kriel thinks the vaccines may be involved.
A study in the BMJ has linked excess deaths with COVID-19 vaccines and the Daily Telegraph has featured it on its front page. Are people slowly waking up to what was done to them?
Listening to Lee Cain on UnHerd, it's clear that the architects of Britain's lockdown policy still think they saved the day. In reality, it was their catastrophic mismanagement that has left the Tories in such a pickle.
Former BBC newsreader Kate Silverton says she left the corporation because it failed to challenge Covid lockdowns and their impact on children.
The Covid response was the opposite of what appeared in long-prepared pandemic plans – and turned accepted principles of medical ethics on their heads, with disastrous results, says Dr Alan Mordue.
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