News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
The WHO's Dr. Hanna Nohynek testified in court that she advised her Government that vaccine passports were not needed but was ignored, despite explaining that the Covid vaccines did not stop virus transmission.
Scrooge is everywhere at this time of year as the archetypal Christmas miser. But on some issues, like immigration, it's ultimately not kind to be anything other than Scrooge-like, says Steven Tucker.
Tim Stanley highlights the chilling case of Finnish MP and former Interior Minister Päivi Räsänen, whose prosecution by the state for her traditional Christian views on sex shows free speech in the West is dead.
As the Finnish MP Päivi Räsänen begins her trial at Helsinki's Court of Appeal on Thursday for her Christian belief in traditional marriage, the silence from Western political leaders is deafening, says Julian Mann.
Excess deaths in Finland in 2022 were higher than in the U.K. in the 'pandemic year' of 2020. Yet no one batted an eyelid, and it wasn't even mentioned in the recent Finnish elections.
If Russia's invasion of Ukraine was prompted by NATO's eastward expansion, as some Putin apologists argue, why has the official reaction to Finland's NATO application been so muted?
Covid vaccination increases the risk of severe heart inflammation up to 120-fold, a major study from Scandinavia published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has found.
Norway scrapped almost all remaining restrictions today, doing away with its self-isolation and face mask requirements and ending social distancing, despite being in the middle of its Omicron surge.
Sweden has announced the end of almost all restrictions as its Public Health Agency becomes the latest to declare COVID-19 "no longer a danger to society".
Finland is to end all Covid restrictions, Prime Minister Sanna Marin has said. It follows Denmark's move to repeal all Covid laws and return to "life as we knew it", and comes despite deaths running high. Is panic over?
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