Tag: Hysteria

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.

New polling has found that around a fifth of the British public would back the return of Covid measures right now with almost half saying masks should be mandatory on public transport.

The fear is being ramped up again as the WHO warns of "concerning trends" for COVID-19 ahead of winter with "increasing deaths" as the new BA.2.86 Pirola variant spreads. Run for the hills.

Here we go again. "Experts" (from Independent SAGE, naturally) have called for another Covid booster drive amid fears the new "concerning" Pirola Covid variant could overwhelm the NHS. Give it a rest, will you.