News Round-Up
26 April 2025
by Toby Young
A new survey from employment advisory agency Acas has found that more than one in five U.K. employers plan to implement a 'no jab no job' policy in the year ahead for both new and existing staff.
Care home residents in Cornwall suffered appalling conditions during the pandemic amidst unmanageable pressures being placed on staff. Then along came the vaccine mandate and it got worse.
A group of medical researchers and bioethicists have written a comprehensive assessment of Covid vaccine policies, arguing that these measures are “scientifically questionable” and “ethically problematic”.
The Government has been criticised by the Lords for failing to clarify whether 'no jab, no job' for new health and social care recruits is being sneaked in by the back door.
According to a speech made by Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, Ukrainian refugees arriving in Italy will be forced to "either agree to have a swab every 48 hours or agree to be vaccinated“.
Justin Trudeau has seen his approval ratings plummet amid criticism of his handling of the trucker protests, including bringing in controversial emergency legislation.
The NHS vaccine mandate, which was paused in January, has now been scrapped, along with the care home worker vaccine mandate, which came in in the autumn at a cost of 40,000 workers.
New Zealand will lift COVID-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions after the Omicron peak has passed, Jacinda Ardern has said, as protesters occupying the parliament grounds again clashed with police.
Models are neither science nor data but a set of assumptions that generate their own tautological conclusions. More than a war on the virus, lockdowns proved to be a war on the poor to protect the laptop class.
Why have infections, ICU admissions and deaths been hugely higher in Australia after the vaccine rollout than before? What does this tell us about the efficacy of the vaccines?
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