Categories for Free Speech
Liars, Fakers, and the Seductive Texture Of Authoritarianism
by Sean Walsh In 1986 the philosopher Harry Frankfurt wrote an article called ‘On Bullshit‘ in which he pointed out...
Read moreHow Will the Fiction be Sustained?
by David Mackie Wedded as it now is to the idea of the vaccine as the ‘solution’ to the coronavirus...
Read more‘Jail Bharo!’ – Channelling Our Inner Gandhi Against the Covidcrats
by Ramesh Thakur The evidence for the effectiveness of lockdowns is underwhelming; for the harm they cause to lives, livelihoods,...
Read moreThe Future Shape of Things
Sebastian FriebelFormer parliamentary adviser to the German Bundestag Dear fellow citizens, I am addressing you as a non-partisan former employee...
Read moreAn Unconscious Conspiracy
by Sinéad Murphy Firstly, let me thank you for Lockdown Sceptics, which has provided such desperately needed comfort over the last...
Read moreLockdown Logic
As a lockdown-sceptical teacher of Philosophy, I tell my students daily that I am currently seeking what I call a...
Read moreSanity is Not Statistical
Animal Farm was a staple of the GCSE English curriculum. Animal Farm taught the young to fear the USSR. Animal...
Read moreA Hard Rain is Going to Fall
by Bella Wallersteiner It has been nearly 31 years since the Berlin Wall came down to reveal 69 miles of...
Read moreCovid Madness
by Manfred Horst Though this be madness, yet there is method in ’t. Shakespeare, Hamlet II,2 Perhaps we should consider...
Read moreThe Hyper-Rationality of Crowds: COVID-19 and the Cult of Anxiety
by Freddie Attenborough There’s a photograph doing the rounds in the mainstream press (May 13th, above) which depicts a group...
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