News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
The Covid Inquiry is right to name and shame Matt Hancock, says Professor Angus Dalgleish. The then-Health Secretary failed to provide the leadership we needed and abandoned the pandemic plan at the first opportunity.
Across the world, the official Covid inquiries are a sham, says former UN Assistant Secretary-General Ramesh Thakur. We need real inquiries if we're going to restore people's faith in public authorities.
The Daily Sceptic's prediction for 2024? Magic Stones. There's no evidence they ward off evil spirits, but the authorities won't care. Carrying them will become compulsory and all criticism dismissed as ‘misinformation'.
Professor James Alexander does his best to work out what a Calvinist Scottish KC meant when she denounced Boris’s Governemnt for not engaging in 'Hegelian decision-making' and concludes it was just highfalutin nonsense.
According to Dr James Alexander, Boris's failure to resist the pressure to lockdown stemmed from his adherence to J.S. Mill's 'harm principle'. As Maurice Cowling pointed out, it is a hopeless bulwark against tyranny.
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.
Politics Professor James Alexander identifies a single line in Patrick Vallance's diaries that reveals the twisted logic behind the lockdown policy.
The Telegraph's Camilla Tominey raises a crucial point regarding the purpose and effectiveness of the Covid Inquiry, particularly in light of the profound impact of lockdown measures on the United Kingdom.
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.
According to Prof Sunetra Gupta, Boris favoured a Swedish-style approach to lockdown in the Autumn of 2021. He revealed this in a round-table meeting with her, Prof Carl Heneghan and Anders Tegnell.
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