The problem with arguing we shouldn't arm a country in case it prolongs a war is that it is an aggressors’ charter, blaming defenders for hurting their own people by not surrendering sooner.
Remarkably, a Guardian article looking at violations of democratic values in Europe during the pandemic has claimed, "Belgium was the only western country where people’s freedoms were moderately violated”.
The Government of the province of Ontario in Canada has successfully sought a court order to freeze over $8 million U.S. dollars in funds made to the Freedom Convoy on GiveSendGo.
Dr Simon Fox, an NHS Consultant in Infectious Diseases, sets out for the Daily Sceptic the lessons the country needs to learn from the last two years of panic and repression of dissent.
The problem is that almost anything, including declining vaccination, can be construed as "prejudicial to the interests of others". We don't need a harm principle; we need a freedom principle.
Western countries, which claim to stand for civil liberties, have introduced vaccine passports. By contrast, the Japanese government has explicitly told citizens: "do not discriminate" against the unvaccinated.
The Covid vaccine consent form given to children will be updated because the current version wrongly tells children that getting 'jabbed' will free them from certain rules that the unvaccinated must still follow.
We're publishing a guest post today by David McGrogan, a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law and Business at Northumbria University, about the recent twitter rant of Stephen Reicher, a lockdown zealot who sits on SAGE.
