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26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Read the suggestions from Daily Sceptic readers as to what questions and topics the COVID-19 Public Inquiry ought to address. There's still time to respond to the inquiry consultation on its terms of reference.
A new lockdown analysis by David Campbell and Kevin Dowd, entitled "The Abandonment of Good Government in the COVID-19 Crisis” has been published in the Studies in Applied Economics series from Johns Hopkins University.
The UK COVID-19 Public Inquiry has launched a consultation on its terms of reference, which will close on April 7th. Daily Sceptic readers are encouraged to respond with questions that ought to be included.
After just the first lockdown, data suggest that average primary school pupils in England were 3.6 months behind in maths compared to previous years, rising to almost six months in Yorkshire and the Humber.
NHS waiting lists for routine operations have hit yet another record high of 6.1 million, the first official data for 2022 show, as the pandemic backlog fails to clear.
Collateral Global is hosting a live Q&A session tonight as it premieres a conversation between two sceptical heavyweights: Professors John Ioannidis and Jay Bhattacharya.
No lockdowns, mask mandates or business closures, and a medically-trained Education Minister who declined the vaccine saying vaccines don't control coronaviruses. Read the fascinating story of the Faroe Islands.
We now face the entirely likely and illogical situation whereby HMRC will attempt to close businesses which may have a Government-backed loan, the cost to the taxpayer of which may be higher than the actual debt itself.
Models are neither science nor data but a set of assumptions that generate their own tautological conclusions. More than a war on the virus, lockdowns proved to be a war on the poor to protect the laptop class.
We are now perhaps emerging blinking into a life without Covid rules and yet the masks and their wearers are still everywhere. The natural world is unchanged, but the human world is still dystopian.
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