Life Saving has become the dominant ethos of our age, presented as popular justification for extreme policies from lockdowns to mass migration to Net Zero. It sounds anodyne but its consequences are anything but.
Britain's public finances are being crippled by a steep rise in the number of people who have left the jobs market because of ill health following the lockdowns, the Office for Budget Responsibility has warned.
It was dubbed the 'great retirement', but new analysis shows that half the older people who dropped out of the workforce at the start of the pandemic found themselves struggling financially.
Lockdowns were “a global policy failure of gigantic proportions”, driven by Government fear campaigns and "fantasy numbers" from dud models, a top international team of researchers has concluded.
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the current wider financial crisis are a result of the economic fallout from years of lockdown policies that crippled Western economies and filled them with low-interest debt.
The lockdowns did not improve health outcomes. They did devastate economic outcomes. The conclusion is undeniable, and now a new study confirms it once more. Lockdowns were a disaster and failed to achieve their goal.
Some Covid restrictions were "idiocy" and lengthy school closures were an "unnecessary mistake”, Germany’s lockdown chief Karl Lauterbach has admitted.
Germany has incinerated 17 million unused face masks that have 'expired'. It still has four billion in Government inventories for which the clock is ticking. Yet it's still buying more!
When the entire political leadership decided that the best way to respond to SARS-2 would be to commit massive human rights violations, naturally, the Ethics Council supported them wherever possible.
Matt Hancock, the ex-Health Secretary who gained notoriety during the pandemic both for the totalitarian response and for his hypocrisy in breaking government guidelines, has said he is stepping down as an MP.
