News Round-Up
30 October 2024
The Saga of the Benin Bronzes Takes a Farcical New Turn
30 October 2024
by Mike Wells
A Swiss girl has been been taken into care because her parents stopped her taking puberty blockers, breaching a ban on conversion therapy. Is this what Labour means by a "full, trans-inclusive ban on conversion practices"?
The Swiss Parliament has rejected a 'landmark' climate ruling from the European Court of Human Rights that claimed the country's climate policies breached its citizens' rights by being insufficiently severe.
Forget the old ladies of Switzerland. The real winners from the ECHR climate verdict are green billionaires. They groom journalists and politicians to promote Net Zero – and even run re-education courses for judges.
A group of senior Swiss women has succeeded in getting the ECHR to declare that addressing climate change is a human right. Yet the Swiss are living longer than ever, even as the summers gently warm, says Ben Pile.
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the Swiss Government had violated the human rights of its citizens by failing to do enough to combat climate change.
Nigeria has failed to look after the Benin bronzes it has and shouldn't be given any more, says leading Swiss ethnologist Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin as she opposes the restitution movement. They belong to humanity.
Former Google software engineer and Swiss resident Mike Hearn explains why Switzerland voted to retain vaccine passports in the recent referendum.
In a referendum that took place on Sunday, more than 60% of Swiss voters expressed their desire to keep the country's vaccine passport system.
A Swiss restaurant has been forcibly closed, and the owners arrested, for refusing to check customers for vaccine passports.
Estimates for the prevalence of long COVID range from 0.04% to 1.7%. Given all the evidence, those at the low end are more plausible, especially if we’re talking about something of clinical significance.
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