News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
The Telegraph's Lockdown Files reveal that most Covid restrictions were based on political expediency and cowardice, yet the rest of the mainstream media would rather attack Isabel Oakeshott than question themselves.
The Guardian prides itself on being one of the most Left-leaning and anti-racist news outlets in the English-speaking world, yet its links to the slave trade suggest it may have to cancel itself.
The Guardian asked women to share their experiences of being "subjected to online misogyny" – and soon found itself barraged with replies from women for whom the main source of online misogyny was, er, the Guardian.
More than two and a half years since Boris Johnson confined the nation to its homes, the Guardian has finally decided it's time to run some criticism of it.
Here we go again. It's the middle of summer and the leading opinion piece in the Guardian calls for the return of masks, mass-testing and quarantine in response to rising infections and hospitalisations.
Wrinkly rocker Neil Young told Spotify to choose between him and Joe Rogan over alleged Covid misinformation – and the streaming service has chosen Rogan, saying it has a responsibility to balance safety and freedom.
An NHS consultant claims in the Guardian that "in hospital, COVID-19 has largely become a disease of the unvaccinated". Yet Government data shows that 71% of hospitalised adults are vaccinated.
According to a new report by the Royal Academy, the UK faces a decade of misery thanks to... well, the RA says "the pandemic" but it's the lockdowns, obvs. Damage caused by the "pandemic" much less in Sweden and Florida.
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