News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
The Australian Senate voted to establish a parliamentary inquiry into the nation's excess deaths today, giving the green light to what is possibly the first inquiry of this nature in the world. It will report in August.
Great Barrington Declaration legends Martin Kulldorff and Jay Bhattacharya have written an op-ed in the New York Post calling for a 'Covid commission' to help the U.S. learn from the debacle of the last three years.
When the entire political leadership decided that the best way to respond to SARS-2 would be to commit massive human rights violations, naturally, the Ethics Council supported them wherever possible.
The creator of the petition that led to the vaccine safety debate in Parliament writes that a number of MPs thanked him as it was the first time Parliament debated the important issue of COVID-19 vaccine safety.
Brown Professor Emily Oster has called for a "pandemic amnesty", pleading ignorance on the failed, coercive policies. But were experts really ignorant, and is an amnesty really the right way forward?
David Stacey recently found himself taking tea with sceptic-hero Anders Tegnell – the State Epidemiologist who steered Sweden away from the lockdown herd and showed the world another way.
We were told there was no alternative to lockdown after Neil Ferguson warned of 200,000 deaths. But official UK inquiries into previous pandemics described modellers as 'court astrologers' and advised scepticism.
In crisis, we chose to invert our public health paradigm by requiring the young to sacrifice their own health and wellbeing to safeguard that of adults. In doing so, we shattered our implicit social contract.
The Chair of the UK independent public Covid inquiry, Baroness Heather Hallett, has told the Prime Minister she wants her inquiry to cover vaccine side-effects and fatalities.
Of the many myths that have taken hold during the pandemic, perhaps none is more central than that the Government was caught out by Covid with no idea how it ought to respond, when in fact it threw its plan in the bin.
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