News Round-Up
6 May 2025
The Green Blob Won’t Take This Lying Down
6 May 2025
by Ben Pile
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.
In a watershed moment for lockdown sceptics, Prime Minister candidate Rishi Sunak has said his opposition to lockdown is a reason that Conservative members should vote for him to lead the country.
Ethical scepticism refuses to let the perpetrator of a gross injustice off the hook and evade accountability just because the alternatives may be worse. Ethical sceptics should have no confidence in Boris Johnson.
Boris Johnson faces a vote of no confidence among his own MPs today after the threshold for triggering a Tory confidence vote was hit following the lockdown Partygate scandal and its aftermath.
Nick Hudson of PANDA is coming to London on Thursday May 26th to deliver “The Quest for Open Science”, after which he will be interviewed by Jeffrey Peel from the New Era and take questions from the audience.
One NHS nurse urged lockdown-sceptic musical Scotch Egg to tour because "it's funny but it's also important. More people need to see it". Another NHS worker thanked the cast for telling the story "that we couldn't tell".
A new report cuts through the lazy stereotypes of Covid narrative sceptics to ask sceptics themselves what they think. The picture is a long way from the 'selfish' 'conspiracy theorists' painted in much of the media.
Boris Johnson has admitted he "can't rule out" plunging the U.K. into a Covid lockdown again, despite only just releasing the nation from two years of crippling on-off restrictions. He's learned nothing, it seems.
Elon Musk – a prominent lockdown sceptic and free speech proponent – has bought a 9.2% stake in social media platform Twitter worth nearly $3 billion U.S. dollars.
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