News Round-Up
28 April 2025
by Toby Young
Here Comes the Politics of Kindness
28 April 2025
by Will Jones
The Covid Inquiry is looking at the vaccines, but there are key questions no one is asking, says Nick Hunt. Such as: did Ministers know the approved vaccine was made differently to the trial vaccine and had no safety data?
President Joe Biden on Monday issued a preemptive pardon to Dr. Anthony Fauci, among other potential Trump targets, though claimed it should not be "misconstrued as an admission of guilt".
Britain's working from home culture is creating a generation "used to not doing proper work" and is harming productivity and mental health, the former boss of Marks and Spencer and Asda Lord Rose has said.
Reform Party leader Richard Tice has called for former Health Secretary Matt Hancock to apologise over his handling of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, calling it "horrendous at every level".
Health Secretary Wes Streeting is looking at changing the law regarding compensation for people harmed by Covid vaccines amid concern it doesn't offer enough support, with just £120,000 available for those "60%" disabled.
Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson write about the appalling treatment of Covid vaccine whistleblower Dr Byram Bridle, the Canadian immunologist who was removed from duties for raising the alarm about the vaccine.
Dr. Daniel Armstrong has had his name erased from the U.K. Medical Register and been barred from practice for making a video in which he argued that the Covid vaccines are unsafe, untested and cause harm.
Mark Zuckerberg's repudiation of Covid-era censorship is welcome. But it's not enough, say Josh Stylman and Jeffrey Tucker. Without a public reckoning they will just do it all again when a cause seems urgent enough.
Thousands of civil servants are to strike "indefinitely" following an order to return to the office for three days a week, a move described by a trade union as "Victorian".
At last, says oncologist Prof Angus Dalgleish, a mainstream media article that mentions a direct link between Covid vaccines and cancer. "It's two years since I first exposed this issue and it's been assiduously ignored."
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