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21 October 2024
by Will Jones
News Round-Up
22 October 2024
by Will Jones
Dictator Dan Andrews's Victoria is facing increased risk of bankruptcy amid ballooning debt due to the state's prolonged Covid lockdowns, leading credit rating agency S&P has said.
The second and third Covid lockdowns were the biggest ever mistake made by a British Government in peacetime, Nigel Farage has said. But what about the first one?
Lockdowns were unquestionably the stupidest Government intervention of our lifetimes, and all for nothing. Anyone who still claims they were 'worth it' is in denial, says Luke Johnson.
The Government did not pay sufficient attention to the long-term collateral damage of lockdowns, two thirds of British scientists surveyed believe.
Two Swedish researchers from Lund University have shown once again that Sweden proves the world wrong about lockdown, publishing their research in the journal Economic Affairs.
In a candid interview with the Telegraph, senior Covid advisor Sir John Edmunds expresses regret for not investing more into modelling the knock-on health effects and economic harm caused by lockdowns.
Lockdowns were the worst way to respond to the virus, says business owner Alastair MacMillan, who shares his experience of what seemed to work (vitamin D, air cleaners) and what didn't (masks and vaccines).
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 Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has admitted for the first time that the massive money printing in the pandemic – more than in the whole previous decade – is behind the current sky-high inflation.
A major source of our current economic malaise – now approaching the highest tax burden since records began – is the cost and impact of the Covid lockdowns, a price which must never be forgotten, says Kate Andrews.
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