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The BBC may have leaned towards pro-lockdown coverage of the coronavirus pandemic in a reaction to the threat to its funding, former Supreme Court Justice Lord Jonathan Sumption has said.
Excess deaths in Finland in 2022 were higher than in the U.K. in the 'pandemic year' of 2020. Yet no one batted an eyelid, and it wasn't even mentioned in the recent Finnish elections.
China’s lockdown “worked” in the sense that it stopped the virus in its tracks. So does this mean Europe's lockdowns worked? No, China's lockdown was far stricter, and the effect of lockdown is not linear.
On Tuesday March 10th 2020, Trump flipped to support lockdowns, Italy locked down and Tomas Pueyo published his viral post that convinced millions to back extreme measures. Why was that the day the world became China?
The human rights lobby is trying to kick up a stink about Government plans to replace the Human Rights Act. But how can anyone now take it seriously when during the lockdowns it made not a peep?
On every major point of contention, the Great Barrington Declaration was right, while Fearmongers-in-Chief like Neil Ferguson, Anthony Fauci and a host of Pfizer’s useful idiots were wrong, write Ramesh Thakur.
The CDC published inaccurate data about the COVID-19 pandemic that exaggerated the threat to the public on at least 20 occasions, a new paper has found.
Much is being made of Morgan’s apology for his mistakes during the Covid years. He excuses his behaviour by saying that he was right at the time but that the "science changed" – but Roger Watson doesn’t buy it.
To mark the third anniversary of lockdown, Allison Pearson has an interview with Anders Tegnell, the heroic Swedish state epidemiologist who single-handedly saved Sweden from following the world into lockdown.
40% of Brits are still taking Covid tests and wearing masks, three years after the nation was plunged into its first lockdown, as zero-Covid fanatics call for a new mask mandate amid a rise in infections.
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