News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Dr David Seedhouse, who created the Ethical Grid 35 years ago as a tool to guide ethical decision-making, says lockdown would have been avoided if politicians learned how to think ethically.
According to projections of the rising cost of electricity, journeys by electric car are set to cost more than diesel from January, calling into question the basis on which many EV's were purchased.
The Telegraph's Robert Taylor has written an excellent piece with which readers of the Daily Sceptic will readily identify, entitled: "Bravo to the lockdown sceptics, who were smeared for daring to defend freedom."
Warnings of lockdown cancer delays went unheeded, experts have said, as it emerged 10,000 NHS patients have been waiting for treatment for more than three months.
As near-universal natural immunity renders the Covid vaccines largely obsolete, we can weigh up how many lives they saved and how many they ended. The calculation does not come out well for the vaccines.
Over half a million fewer people died in England and Wales over the last 20 years due to a small rise in temperatures, according to the ONS. But for some reason the media didn't report this good news.
Lockdown-loving states New York and California are among the worst overall pandemic performers while freedom-loving states Florida and South Dakota are among the best, new research by a leading US think tank has found.
The Guardian has been running a series to mark the second anniversary of the first lockdown called "Rewriting COVID-19", but it's more like rewriting the facts.
The Government's big mistake with COVID-19 was throwing ethics out the window without a second thought, so no one reflected on whether it was justified so egregiously to trample on people's fundamental rights.
How can it be that the very people we were aiming to protect from COVID-19 became victims of our policies, swapping the risks of a respiratory infection for the realities of a miserable, isolated existence?
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