On Wokeness, Its Nature, and Its Prospects
30 May 2023
by Eugyppius
Sunak’s Solution to Food Price Inflation: Socialism!
29 May 2023
by Noah Carl
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.
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