News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
The Government cannot comprehend that there is no reason to delay the lifting of lockdown restrictions beyond June 21st because it has become infected by its own "scaremongering propaganda", says Professor David Paton.
Over 60% of Brits are "worried" about the ending of social distancing and mask-wearing guidelines, according to new polling that suggests more people are suffering from "Covid Anxiety Syndrome" than previously believed.
Almost a quarter of Britain's pubs and restaurants have yet to reopen since the partial easing of hospitality restrictions and 7.4% of the country's pre-lockdown total have already closed for good.
The fear whipped up over Covid has resulted in millions of Brits struggling to return to normal life, says a new report which will warn that people with "Covid Anxiety Syndrome" are locking themselves down from within.
Given the success of our vaccine rollout, why is the Prime Minister dragging his feet over the reopening of Britain? A braver politician would sideline those imposing politically impossible conditions on our freedoms.
An ex-soldier who was posted to East Germany in 1962 has written a stinging letter linking the scare tactics employed to frighten East Berliners then to those employed by the British Government on Covid today.
The Government is planning a new poster campaign that will urge people – vaccinated or otherwise – not to hug. It is likely to say that if you "hug your grandchildren there is a chance you will infect people you love".
A "climate of fear" is preventing experts from speaking out against the Government's handling of Covid, with many having withdrawn from the public debate after being threatened and smeared.
The "stay at home" message is behind a major fall in urgent lung cancer referrals, according to Cancer Research UK's GP adviser. Only 3% of sufferers survive for five years or more if diagnosed at the latest stage.
by Dr. James Moreton Wakeley Fear is our most powerful emotion. It triggers our deepest animal instincts and makes us act in irrational ways. We find ourselves fighting, fleeing, or hiding. We look only to our own safety, forget how to think, and become heedless of anything or anyone else. Fear is the ultimate master of the mind. Employing it as a form of influence, however softly, however subliminally, can profoundly change behaviour and cause lasting mental trauma. Enemies do it in times of war to undermine their foe’s morale and will to resist. It is the tactic used by totalitarian regimes throughout history to compel obedience. And it is the tactic that the British government, for the past year, has consciously employed to turn us into the compliant subjects of lockdown. Using such behavioural science to ‘nudge’ us into acting in certain ways is not new. As conceived by the Cameron government, harnessing ‘nudge theory’ to encourage people ‘to make better choices for themselves’ without resorting to the compulsion of law is not necessarily malign. Yet the ways in which behavioural science has been employed over the course of the past year demonstrates the deep truth of the old aphorism that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. The Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours (SPI-B) is ...
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