News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
In the UK, as in the US, the Covid pandemic response switched abruptly in mid-March 2020 from a standard public health plan to a totalitarian lockdown-until-vaccine plan. Debbie Lerman digs into why this happened.
If politicians want to solve the U.K.'s endemic worklessness they must talk to people in supermarket cafés, for in those humble haunts of the lowly leisured all will be revealed, says Joanna Gray.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Rishi Sunak's secret meeting with Dominic Cummings, Kemi Badenoch topping polls to be the next Tory leader and Sadiq Khan's New Year's Eve narcissism.
Historian Guy de la Bédoyère says the SAGE scientists didn't have a clue about whether to lock down or not in March 2020, any more than historians know much about what went on in the past.
The Daily Sceptic’s in-house doctor casts a critical eye over the Covid Inquiry, raising questions about the Government's sudden rejection of 'herd immunity' and the Inquiry’s uncritical acceptance that lockdowns work.
In UnHerd, Kathleen Stock evaluates the ramifications of Dominic Cummings's conduct and communication style within the political sphere, following his testimony at the Covid Inquiry.
As it becomes increasingly obvious the lockdown policy was a colossal error, those responsible are reacting in two ways: claiming they always knew it was a mistake or doubling down.
Dominic Cummings has tweeted that pictures of the Downing Street Christmas party will inevitably reach the public.
Dom Cummings has given an interview to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg, due to shown tonight on BBC2 at 7pm, in which he offers further evidence that Boris is a lockdown sceptic. Naturally, this makes him much more sympathetic.
We're publishing an original article on Lockdown Sceptics today setting out the case for the defence of the Prime Minister. This one is bound to get a lot of comments!
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