News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
In the latest example of how the Scottish Covid Inquiry is showing itself far less biased than the U.K one, Anders Tegnell has revealed that while he was snubbed by Hallett he was invited to make his case in Scotland.
The real Covid scandal is emerging right in front of the inquiry’s nose, writes Fraser Nelson: Britain could have escaped the horrors of lockdown, but nobody pulled apart the doom models driving it.
Sweden showed up the lockdown countries with its lower overall excess mortality after three years. But why has the birth rate plummeted and why are excess deaths still running hot, asks Robert Kogon.
The former head of Interpol, Björn Eriksson says his chief security concern now is the erasure of cash, as worries grow about the vulnerability of electronic payment systems to attack.
At the U.K. Covid Inquiry last week the Lead Counsel, Hugo Keith KC, claimed Covid would have grown "exponentially" without lockdown while the British Medical Association called for earlier, harder restrictions.
Are we witnessing the beginning of the collapse of the narrative, asks Dr Tom Jefferson, as key lockdown characters like Dame Jenny Harries publicly backpedal?
Dame Jenny Harries, head of the U.K. Health Security Agency, suggests the U.K. will adopt a Swedish-style approach to social distancing in the future, focusing on voluntary measures and transparent risk communication.
A new paper estimates that China saw 1.9 million excess deaths after it abandoned Zero Covid. The Chinese turned their entire society upside down fighting Covid, and in the end did no better than the Swedes.
The Foreign Office is helping to pay for the rewriting of wikipedia entries on climate change to eliminate all traces of doubt about the claim that we're in the midst of a 'climate emergency'.
Across Europe parties opposing Net Zero and mass immigration are gaining power as millions of citizens shift their allegiance towards populist Right-wing parties.
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