Tag: Lockdown Sceptics

Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson, in partnership with Big Brother Watch, have discovered they were being spied upon by various shadowy state agencies, including the 77th Brigade. Welcome to the Ministry of Truth.

Various state agencies, including the 77th Brigade, spied on lockdown sceptics, according to Big Brother Watch. Incredibly, the Government convinced these agencies that critics of its polices are enemies of the state.

Censorship on social media has contributed to the devastating impact of pandemic measures by shutting down debate about harms and effectiveness. The return of dissenting voices to Twitter is something to celebrate.

Twitter kept a 'secret blacklist' of topics and accounts, including prominent lockdown sceptics such as Stanford's Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, to prevent them from trending, according to data obtained by journalist Bari Weiss.

Ron DeSantis’s resounding victory in Florida is a vindication of his lockdown scepticism. Ridiculed by Democrats for ignoring ‘expert’ advice, DeSantis got it right and the voters have rewarded him.

New PM Rishi Sunak was the lockdown Chancellor. But he has also boasted he cut short an overseas trip to stop lockdown last December. Can he be trusted to stick to a sceptical line on the new public health orthodoxy?

More than two and a half years since Boris Johnson confined the nation to its homes, the Guardian has finally decided it's time to run some criticism of it.

One of the many charges levelled at Brazil's President Bolsonaro is that his sceptical handling of the pandemic was "disastrous". A comparison with other countries, however, quickly shows that to be nonsense.

The Telegraph's Robert Taylor has written an excellent piece with which readers of the Daily Sceptic will readily identify, entitled: "Bravo to the lockdown sceptics, who were smeared for daring to defend freedom."

When you bend the truth for the greater good, in the long term this is a loser strategy, because truth will out, your credibility plummets, and you’re worse off than if you’d admitted your doubts at the start.