News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
"Healthcare is much more corrupt than people think, and industry money goes everywhere, to politicians, medical journals, newspapers etc.," says Cochrane co-founder Professor Peter Gøtzsche.
The Human Medicines Regulations state that celebrity endorsement of drugs is not allowed. So why are TV doctors in the pay of AstraZeneca promoting vaccines in the media, ask Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan.
Imagine a risk-free business scheme in which you get to create the market, manage its regulation, then confine people to their homes until they buy it. Welcome to the WHO's world of pandemic management, says Dr David Bell.
According to the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee, of the £12bn spent on PPE in 2020-21, £9 billion was wasted due to inflated prices or shoddy equipment. Has the Government learned the lessons?
Following the summer's debanking scandal the FCA launched an urgent inquiry. Yet disgracefully it has found no evidence of wrongdoing in what amounts to a blatant cover-up.
A keen surfer, Dr. Mark Shaw says his experience with surfboards taught him to anticipate the problems with crumbling concrete. So why were the defects not clear at the time and who will be held accountable?
The payments that the U.K. Government handed over to domestic violence agencies during Covid lockdowns are among the most egregious rip-offs of that period.
The Covid Inquiry hopes to rebrand lockdown as a noble cause, led astray by guilty men. In this way it seeks to revive the moral case for restrictions, and, still more, the moral case for the civil service.
Former PM Boris Johnson is resigning as an MP after receiving a letter from the Privileges Committee informing him that it has found him guilty of misleading Parliament over the 'partygate' lockdown gatherings.
New Zealand’s Government has awarded 'damehood' to its former PM Jacinda Ardern for “leading the country through the Covid pandemic” – despite deaths currently running 25% above average.
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