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14 January 2025
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14 January 2025
by Will Jones
14 year-old Jack Watson has written a piece for the Daily Sceptic about the impact of the pandemic on his education. He says the only lesson he learned in two years is the rules don’t apply to those who make them.
Without dissenters to pandemic policies, it would have taken much longer to exit lockdowns. Yet there was a concerted effort in government and media to discredit all dissent, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
The British state deployed a counter-terrorism unit to crush social media and scientific dissent on vaccines and lockdowns, it has emerged – along with numerous other abuses of state power.
Matt Hancock, the ex-Health Secretary who gained notoriety during the pandemic both for the totalitarian response and for his hypocrisy in breaking government guidelines, has said he is stepping down as an MP.
The Government's requirement that schoolchildren wear face masks in the classroom was based on political calculation not evidence, new official documents released under Freedom of Information reveal.
Read the Daily Sceptic’s parody of Matt Hancock’s pandemic diary. Only the slightest tweak was required to make it read like something scripted by Armando Iannucci.
In this week’s London Calling, the talking points are whether the civil unrest in China is the beginning of the end for Xi, why Matt Hancock did well on I’m a Celeb and our failing efforts to fend off old age.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast, the talking points are the climate 'reparations' shakedown of the West, woke advertisers vs free speech on Twitter and the hounding of Christians by the Church of England.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast, the talking points are Matt Hancock being forced to eat kangaroo scrotum, whether England is being 'invaded' and the hateful antics of hard Left campaign group Stop Funding Hate.
In an effort to salvage his reputation, former Health Secretary Matt Hancock plans to eat kangaroo testicles on live TV.
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