News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Transport for London's promotion of face coverings as a confidence booster raises eyebrows about its psychological impact.
Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson run a sceptical eye over week two of the Hallett Inquiry. Apparently, the precautionary principle and groupthink trumped the best available evidence when responding to the pandemic. Shock!
Official sources failed us in the Covid crisis. Now we must think for ourselves, says David Thunder at the Brownstone Institute.
Big-name Marvel actors are expressing sceptical views regarding the Covid vaccine, and their corporate bosses are finding it harder to keep them in line.
Nick Rendell looks past the lurid predictions of models at the actual Covid stats in China and asks if the Chinese people will start to question why they were locked in their houses for so long.
A couple in Plymouth lost their cafe and were fined £42,000 for refusing to comply with Covid restrictions in November 2020. The fine has been reduced to £14,000, but if they can’t pay they face jail. Can you help?
As tax rises approach to plug the gaping hole in the public finances left by years of lockdowns, it seems the public have learnt nothing as large numbers continue to clamour for new restrictions this winter.
The Sunderland Airshow has been cancelled indefinitely "due to climate change" following three years of being cancelled "due to Covid" in the latest sign that pandemic measures are morphing into climate ones.
Boris, Hancock, Whitty and the rest who drove the lockdowns will never admit they were wrong as it would be psychologically devastating for them. But in time the world will silently resolve the measures were mistaken.
President Xi’s refusal to abandon his insane zero Covid policy is wreaking havoc with the Chinese economy, depressing retail sales and choking off the nascent recovery.
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