The introduction of VAR technology into football has managed to make the original problem – pundits and managers criticising referees’ ‘wrong’ decisions – even worse, while also generating fresh problems of its own.
Boris, Hancock, Whitty and the rest who drove the lockdowns will never admit they were wrong as it would be psychologically devastating for them. But in time the world will silently resolve the measures were mistaken.
The result of deploying judicial review as a weapon of political struggle, as has happened in recent decades, was always going to be that the courts would end up having their wings clipped.
The British Bill of Rights will sort out a number of the problems created by Blair's ill-conceived Human Rights Act and ensure the sovereignty of Parliament is accorded much greater respect by judges.
On the second anniversary of the first lockdown, we're publishing a piece on the Daily Sceptic by Dr David McGrogan about how our callous disregard for children's interests in 2020-21 revealed our moral bankruptcy.
Dr David McGrogan, an Associate Professor at Northumbria Law School, asks whether the OGs of the lockdown sceptics' movement should welcome repentant sinners or shun them as bandwagon jumpers?
by Dr David McGrogan Of all the tragic, unnecessary and shameful consequences of the 2020 lockdowns, school closures may be...
by Dr David McGrogan It must surely now be evident to all of us ‘sceptics’ that we have failed. Despite...
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