News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Electric cars saw their market share plunge by a quarter in Britain last month, as hard-up customers shunned the high prices and soaring insurance costs.
A surprising spike in middle-aged deaths in the U.K. is impacting profits for insurers Aviva and Legal & General, potentially influencing the pricing of life and insurance products.
Drivers of electric cars are being asked to pay more than twice as much for insurance as those who own petrol-fuelled models as EV premiums surge 50% in a year, data have revealed.
Insurance companies are using global warming to justify a huge hike in home cover premiums – even if the homeowners don't live near rivers or the sea and have never made a claim for storm damage.
Drivers report being shocked at the extraordinary cost of insuring electric vehicles – over £5,000 in many cases, if insurance is available at all, as insurers balk at the risks of EVs.
The In-house doctor breaks down the Byzantine complexity of our de facto private health system. Ironically, the greatest ally private medical providers have turns out to be the ‘useful idiot’ NHS zealots.
Sudden, unexpected deaths in Germany more than doubled after the Covid vaccine rollout began in 2021, newly released insurance data for 72 million people show.
The French pay the same for their health service as Brits, but this gets them far more doctors and nurses, much less bureaucracy and much better outcomes. Why don't we ditch the 'our NHS' dogma and learn from them?
The Icelandic Health Insurance fund has to date received 46 applications for damage payouts after COVID-19 vaccination from a population of 311,000 – a rate 150 times higher than expected for flu vaccines.
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