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Children's campaigner Molly Kingsley was horrified to discover she was spied on by the Government for opposing school closures during the lockdown and is prepared to bring legal action to hold ministers to account.
New study looking at 20,000 papers on the global impact of the lockdowns says the benefits were "negligible", whereas the collateral costs were "staggering". “Biggest policy mistake in our lifetime," the authors conclude.
According to new data released by the ONS, school closures disproportionately affected the most disadvantaged children. Lockdown sceptics predicted this – but were ignored by the Left and the teaching unions.
Government ministers are reported to be alarmed by plans to give the WHO sweeping new powers to impose lockdowns and other countermeasures on the U.K.
In a recent poll, only 36% of British Conservatives said the pandemic is over. By contrast, 75% of U.S. Republicans say the same. What explains this gap? Republicans get their news from less "alarmist" outlets.
Businessman and entrepreneur Luke Johnson says one of the biggest costs of the lockdowns was a surge in loneliness as communities fragmented, workplaces emptied and clubs and associations collapsed.
Brownstone Institute President Jeffrey A. Tucker sets out 12 challenges the world faces after Covid to rebuild a society based on freedom, integrity and the minimal use of force.
Why is the world descending into catastrophist delusions, and what can be done about it? Bestselling psychotherapist Hugh Willbourn has some answers.
The persistence of the mask madness, the partitions and hand sanitisers that will seemingly never be removed, the embrace of lockdown isolation – the Japanese would seem perfectly happy to do it all again.
Princess Anne said lockdown robbed her father Prince Philip of social interactions before his death and that the Queen's solitude at his funeral was "thievery" in a rare glimpse of the royals' view on Covid restrictions.
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