News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner's 18 year-old daughter has demanded the imposition of "mask mandates" in medical facilities and called for an end to all "mask bans" in a plea to the governing body for Los Angeles County.
Was the global overreaction to Covid merely panic or were there vested interests and authoritarian ideologies pushing the hysteria? Alex Kriel follows the money as he asks, cui bono?
A staggering £1.4bn in PPE has been destroyed or written off in the most wasteful Government deal of the pandemic.
Why does the world keep being sucked into collective crazes like transgenderism, MeToo, lockdowns and BLM in recent years? Lionel Shriver takes the question head on.
Will discrimination on the basis of intelligence be banned next? That's the suggestion Lionel Shriver explores in her new novel MANIA, based on the craziness of the last few years. Read her interview with Laura Dodsworth.
German officials have been caught admitting that they overstated the risk of COVID-19 to the public on the directions of the Ministry of Health in newly released FOI documents.
According to the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee, of the £12bn spent on PPE in 2020-21, £9 billion was wasted due to inflated prices or shoddy equipment. Has the Government learned the lessons?
It is usually assumed that in March 2020 people were panicked over getting the virus. But Jeffrey Tucker says that the primary fear he saw at that time was of some extreme response by Government.
More than £550 million of Covid drugs have been wasted in the U.K., according to analysis of health data by health analytics firm Airfinty.
It is the prerogative of every society to believe it is uniquely afflicted by existential threats, ruled by waves of corrupt incompetents and saddled with a feckless, spoiled younger generation of popinjays.
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