News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Will Trump ever admit he was wrong to back lockdown in March 2020 – a decision that doomed America to years of crisis and sank his re-election hopes that year? Jeffrey Tucker is hopeful that truth will finally prevail.
The Covid Inquiry is right to name and shame Matt Hancock, says Professor Angus Dalgleish. The then-Health Secretary failed to provide the leadership we needed and abandoned the pandemic plan at the first opportunity.
Civil Service "groupthink", Brexit and planning for flu rather than a coronavirus led Britain to be unprepared for the pandemic, the Covid Inquiry has found.
A 2007 U.S. Government document has come to light that reveals how the corporatist state was planning to close schools and businesses and lock down in response to a "potential" pandemic way back then, says Jeffrey Tucker.
Primary schools have failed to return to pre-lockdown standards across reading, writing and maths for 10-11 year-olds, new figures reveal.
As he left Downing Street, Rishi Sunak apologised for the Conservatives' record in Government. Mark Ellse imagines what he might have said had he apologised for lockdowns and Net Zero.
Critics have slammed Keir Starmer for reneging on promises of change by appointing the Government’s former Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance as the new Minister of State for Science.
In the UK, as in the US, the Covid pandemic response switched abruptly in mid-March 2020 from a standard public health plan to a totalitarian lockdown-until-vaccine plan. Debbie Lerman digs into why this happened.
On Friday, Labour's euphoria from its likely victory will dissipate in hours, and the Leftist factions will emerge from the darkness and the unravelling will start, says Guy de la Bédoyère.
It's the first General Election since Covid, yet lockdown and the rest of the catastrophic response just aren't being discussed. It's a failure of democracy, says Francis Hoar.
© Skeptics Ltd.