The Government's use of psychological techniques to increase fear to boost compliance with pandemic measures destroyed the public's ability to consent to vaccines, the Chairman of the UK Council for Psychotherapy has said.
Criticising China’s Covid lockdowns is a “microaggression”, a university has told professors, as it faces a revolt from more than a dozen of its own academics who accuse it of “policing conformity".
When Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met Rishi Sunak this week, on her agenda were two issues that she believes threaten Europe most: the illegal migrant boat crisis and Europe’s plummeting fertility rate.
Fighting one atmospheric gas is not enough it seems. Now there is said to be a 'nitrogen crisis' that requires the destruction of large parts of the economy and the seizing of thousands of farms by the state.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Tucker Carlson's sudden exit from Fox, Andrew Bridgen's defenestration by the Tories and Diane Abbott's anti-Semitic letter to the Observer.
Andrew Bridgen has been expelled from the Conservative Party after raising concerns about Covid vaccine harms. You don't have to agree with everything he says to regard this as deeply regrettable.
Police in London have refused to clear roads being blocked by eco-loon 'Just Stop Oil' protestors while threatening with arrest any motorists who try to do it themselves.
Turning the NHS into a Covid service was always going to end in catastrophe, and now the explosion in serious cancers may have a more serious long-term effect than the virus itself, says top cancer doctor Karol Sikora.
There is no evidence that shielding benefited vulnerable people during the Covid pandemic, according to a study, with the high rate of in-hospital transmission blamed for the failure of the policy.
Labour MP Diane Abbott was stripped of the Labour whip on Sunday morning amid a backlash at her "shameful" suggestion that Jewish people don't suffer racism. She also falsely claimed white people were never enslaved.
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