News Round-Up
28 April 2025
by Toby Young
Here Comes the Politics of Kindness
28 April 2025
by Will Jones
Government advisers now falsely claim never to have supported pandemic fear messaging. Nonsense, says Laura Dodsworth, who kept the receipts and sets the record straight.
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.
Members of professional Covid alarmist group Independent SAGE have once again called for the return of face masks. Will they ever accept the scientific evidence is not on their side, asks Dr Gary Sidley.
The Covid Inquiry has been accused of wasting time and resources by inviting input from two-thirds of the members of the pro-lockdown, Left-wing lobby group Independent SAGE, led by Communist Susan Michie.
New Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has a woeful record on lockdowns: a Zero Covid proponent, he has praised China's response, voted for vaccine passports and opposed ending lockdowns until infections drop below 1,000 a day.
One of Britain’s top medical journals, the BMJ, is facing backlash from scientists and doctors for publishing a series of articles authored by members of the self-appointed, pro-restriction Independent SAGE group.
This week, Zero Covid proponents like anthropologist Devi Sridhar have been out in force to try to save their legacy and regain control of the narrative. But they mustn't be allowed to rewrite history.
In a recent viral tweet, the German Health Minister shared a graph suggesting that Omicron is a threat to children. Yet a new U.S. study shows that Omicron is significantly less deadly than Delta in under 5s.
In case you needed proof that "anti-vaxxer" has become a smear wielded by Zero Covid fanatics, Independent SAGE has now accused the JCVI of being "anti-vaxx" because it raised concerns about vaccinating children.
Now that almost all vulnerable people have been vaccinated, why are we trying to stop children getting the virus if, as Chris Whitty says, “the great majority” of them are going to get it at some point anyway?
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