Tag: Lockdown Sceptics

The Guardian has been running a series to mark the second anniversary of the first lockdown called "Rewriting COVID-19", but it's more like rewriting the facts.

To ensure policy failure on such a scale never happens again, those of us who oppose them need concrete proposals that could be implemented by a parliament and which address the root causes of the failed policies.

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.

Chinese lockdown sceptic artist Ai Weiwei has been beaten by the police for his opposition to the Chinese Communist Party and held in conditions of extreme confinement. We can say honestly he has suffered for his art.

Vindication on lockdowns, but new threats to free speech on the second anniversary of the Free Speech Union – watch the interview on "So What You're Saying Is" from the New Culture Forum.

Now that Covid restrictions are being rolled back, some are declaring victory over the miserable virus. Lockdowns, we are told, worked. Only a fool could argue otherwise. But this misses vital evidence.

Allison Pearson lists the most lunatic lockdown measures as she recalls being pilloried for being a lockdown sceptic, but increasingly her opponents are admitting she was right.

We're publishing a guest post on the Daily Sceptic by Law Professor David McGrogan about why the critics of Covid restrictions are suddenly winning the argument.

Why have the lockdown sceptics' failed to win the argument? Partly because we made the mistake of trying to appeal to reason, but partly because we got some things wrong at the beginning.

Christopher Snowdon misfires repeatedly as he unloads another volley against lockdown sceptics. But does he have more in common with the sceptics he lampoons than he'd like to admit?