News Round-Up
4 December 2023
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4 December 2023
Parents' group UsForThem is urging the FCA to hold PayPal accountable for shutting down accounts last year for political reasons, including that of the Daily Sceptic, and undermining free speech.
Ministers were given a stark warning that more children would die from suicide than from contracting COVID-19 if they shut schools, a damning new report from parent campaigners has revealed.
Children's campaigner Molly Kingsley was horrified to discover she was spied on by the Government for opposing school closures during the lockdown and is prepared to bring legal action to hold ministers to account.
In December 2021, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla was given the BBC's stage to promote his vaccine to children, describing it as "completely completely" beneficial. UsForThem complained that this was misleading – and won.
The Government's requirement that schoolchildren wear face masks in the classroom was based on political calculation not evidence, new official documents released under Freedom of Information reveal.
“The FSU is going to try to get the law changed so PayPal and other companies can’t deplatform people for expressing political views they disapprove of. I feel like saying to PayPal, ‘You messed with the wrong guy.’”
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.
Worried about a potential Covid outbreak, two schools in England have stopped in-person teaching for at least a week by imposing their own 'circuit-breaker' lockdown.
Local councils are pushing for schools to reintroduce more 'anti-Covid measures', including face masks, which contradict national guidance in what has been labelled a "militant Lefty" push.
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