Watch out for the ratchet effect, says Abbie MacGregor. Otherwise we risk sleepwalking into the end of personal responsibility, where every aspect of life is subject to bureaucratic control in the name of public health.
Nanny state zealots, in a post-pandemic world obsessed with what's good and bad for us, have ensured all debate remains tilted in their direction using skewed statistics and emotional anecdotes, says Abbie MacGregor.
Train services were cancelled over the weekend after the trade union Aslef told drivers – who've recently been given a bumper 15% pay rise by Labour – not to walk on snow, calling it "basic safety stuff".
The modern state keeps messing up in its blunt, oppressive, one-size-fits-all solutions to the problems it imagines society faces because it is run by people with a narrow, bureaucratic vision of life, says Eugyppius.
Covid hysteria continues among local councils, as health and safety inspectors tell bars and pubs they should refuse to refill glasses from taps to prevent the spread of Covid.
Imperial College London, home to 'Professor Lockdown' Neil Ferguson, has enraged parents and students by banning parents from attending their children's graduation ceremonies due to 'Covid safety'.
The FT reports that rich countries have given more *booster* doses than poor countries have given *total* doses. Why so few doses in poor countries? Rich countries wasted millions on young healthy people.
Many people – including some world leaders – see the vaccines as a way to ensure that nobody ever has to get COVID. But this view is based more on safetyism than on science. And ironically, it’s causing real harm.
We're publishing a new piece today by Dr. Sinéad Murphy, an Associate Researcher in Philosophy at Newcastle University, about the lasting psychological impact of lockdowns and the philosophy of safetyism underpinning them.
Given the success of our vaccine rollout, why is the Prime Minister dragging his feet over the reopening of Britain? A braver politician would sideline those imposing politically impossible conditions on our freedoms.
