News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
A staggering £1.4bn in PPE has been destroyed or written off in the most wasteful Government deal of the pandemic.
Amid financial woes, UK universities are slashing academic jobs but splurging on 'woke' roles, offering bumper paychecks for positions in equality, diversity and inclusion.
Australia has binned over 35% of its multi-billion dollar Covid vaccine supply, with only 26% of the 267.3 million doses purchased being administered and another 15% set to expire soon.
Outrage is mounting over the Covid Inquiry's soaring £146 million price tag, which has seen more than £3 million allocated to emotional support services for witnesses.
Fraud and error in Covid support schemes have cost the British taxpayer over £10 billion, according to figures buried in a mass data dump by the Government.
The UK will squander a staggering £16 billion this decade as regulatory and planning failures result in Scotland's wind power surplus outstripping transmission capacity to the South.
The NHS seems to be in permanent crisis. Yet the number of doctors is up 37% and non-medical support staff up 45% in 10 years. How does a health service do so little with so much?
The U.K. lost £1.2 billion on stockpiling unused antivirals for Covid, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson. But where's the evidence these drugs do anything except line the pockets of pharma and the 'pandemic' industry?
The Government has written off £9.9bn of the £13.6bn it spent on PPE in the pandemic because much of it is unusable. Critics said the waste is "more than it would cost to give every nurse in the NHS a 100% bonus".
More than £550 million of Covid drugs have been wasted in the U.K., according to analysis of health data by health analytics firm Airfinty.
© Skeptics Ltd.