News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Covid vaccines were touted as great achievements by Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak and the Conservative party. But come the election and silence. Is it an admission that it has all gone sour, asks Prof David Livermore.
Watch a Government Minister admit to Dan Hannan that the Covid vaccines did not prevent transmission, prompting Hannan to ask: "So why the hell did we force them on to young people? Why did we insist on vaccine passports?"
COVID-19 jabs will be sold on the high street for £99 from next week to anyone over 12 years old, as Boots becomes the first major pharmacy to launch a private vaccination service.
The Government sidelined and then shut down its ethics committee after it tried to intervene on the vaccination of children, it has emerged in a scandal that raises serious questions about the Government's Covid response.
Why were German politicians so eager, in summer 2021, to vaccinate children against Covid, and why are they lying about it now, asks Eugyppius.
Once the golden boy of UK primary education, Mike Fairclough was the only headteacher to question the vaccinating and masking of children – and found himself being investigated by counter-terrorism agencies.
A new Nature modelling study makes the absurd claim that Covid vaccination prevented 354,000 Delta wave deaths in Japan, despite this being 10 times the mortality rate of the earlier waves.
In December, after the U.K. approved the Covid vaccine for infants, Hugh McCarthy asked the CMO for N. Ireland why we were vaccinating babies against Covid. These are the questions left unanswered by his reply.
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.
Full Fact has 'fact-checked' recent statements about the Covid vaccines by MP Andrew Bridgen, claiming he has "put lives at risk" – but expert group HART picks up Full Fact's errors and sets the record straight.
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