News Round-Up
26 April 2025
by Toby Young
The World Health Organisation is gearing up to persuade the world's governments to sign a new pandemic treaty that would allow the unelected body to seize power over nation states in future pandemics, warns Matt Ridley.
Public satisfaction with the NHS has fallen to the lowest level on record amid poor access to GPs and long waits for hospital care, particularly since the pandemic.
Four years after the advent of Covid lockdowns, what precisely was the point of the hell we went through, asks Jeffrey Tucker. Who did it and why? Why did it last so long? Why has there been no official accounting?
Science found a "near non-existent" benefit of face masks, the Covid Inquiry Lead Counsel told Devi Sridhar last week. "Should this debate have been bypassed?" he asked her. "Exactly," she replied.
Civil servants at the ONS, Britain’s official statistics body, have threatened to go on strike after being asked to work in the office for two days a week.
Doctors across the world are sounding the alarm over a surging epidemic of young people being diagnosed with cancers since the pandemic, with no obvious explanation for what lies behind it.
The Covid Inquiry appears to be "fundamentally biased" and is failing to examine the costs of lockdown, 55 professors and academics have told its Chairman, Baroness Hallett.
Data linking excess deaths to Covid vaccines is being demanded by MPs and peers, amid rising calls for the Government to prove it's claim that there is "no evidence" connecting excess deaths to the COVID-19 vaccines.
The journalist Ross Gelbspan, who led the fight against what he called "climate denialism", has passed away. Richard Burcik looks back at his claims and finds he was wrong about everything.
The WHO Pandemic Agreement has worried many, and justifiably so, as it further empowers the WHO and the whole pandemic preparedness crowd. But what it proposes is also really stupid, says Eugyppius.
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