News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
London councils did not consider the economic cost of implementing the 20mph speed limits that are driving road-users up the wall, despite a cost-benefit analysis being a requirement.
"I don't want to get into that": the Covid Inquiry's Hugo Keith KC shocks observers by shutting down Prime Minister Rishi Sunak when he points out that lockdowns did more harm than good.
The corruption of 'public health' in recent years and the centralising ambitions of the WHO should not blind us to the crucial role public health programmes play in developing countries, says Dr David Bell.
A remarkable report commissioned by the Scottish Covid Inquiry goes off-narrative and savages lockdowns and vaccines, saying there is no evidence they helped.
Lockdowns were “a global policy failure of gigantic proportions”, driven by Government fear campaigns and "fantasy numbers" from dud models, a top international team of researchers has concluded.
The precautionary principle originally counselled against untested interventions, but more recently elites have inverted it to impose evidence-free measures on a terrified public, arguing "better safe than sorry".
Ex-Chancellor George Osborne surprised many at the Covid Inquiry today by coming out as a lockdown sceptic while ex-Chief Medical Officer Sally Davies said "awful" lockdowns had "damaged a generation".
Has science become a threat to human health? After it was co-opted by Governments to impose disastrous interventions during the pandemic, that's the shocking possibility considered by Prof John Ioannidis and colleagues.
Many of the obituaries of Nigel Lawson have glossed over the work that dominated the last 20 years of his life, namely his climate scepticism. Daily Sceptic Environment Editor Chris Morrison makes good the deficit.
Sadiq Khan's anti-car ULEZ policy is based on the claim that 4,000 deaths are caused by London's air pollution each year. But is that really true, and how many would be 'saved' by a policy that hammers the poor?
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