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Postcard From Genoa
We're publishing a new Postcard today by Roger Watson, Professor of Nursing at the University of Hull. He's just back from a teaching stint at the University of Genoa and was horrified by the city-wide Covid restrictions.
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I Will Not be Tricked into Having Yet Another Jab so I Can Travel
We're publishing a guest post by travel writer Annabel Fenwick Elliott about the absurdity of Sajid Javid's proposal that people must have the Covid booster as a condition of being able to travel. Every six months?
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Sajid Javid Refuses to Rule Out Use of France-Style Vaccine Passports For Those Who Refuse the Booster Shot
The Health Secretary has not ruled out the possibility that a booster jab will be needed to be considered 'fully vaccinated' for any future vaccine passport measures.
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A Night of Politically Incorrect Comedy
There are still a few tickets left to tonight's Free Speech Union's comedy extravaganza organised with Comedy Unleashed, the home of free-thinking comedy. No need to certify your Covid status to get in or wear a mask.
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How did we go from clapping our carers to sacking our carers?
NHS staff should not be sacked for refusing to get jabbed. If ‘my body, my choice’ means anything at all, it means the right to refuse an injection without losing your livelihood.
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NHS Compulsory Vaccination as an Example of Doublethink
Dr Peter Hayes spies a touch of Orwellian propaganda in the Government's mixed messages on NHS staff and vaccination. Is it essential they are jabbed or not? Both, it seems.
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Mandatory Vaccination Will Only Persuade 20,000 Out of 70,000 Unvaccinated NHS Staff to Get Jabbed, According to Government Predictions
Official Government estimates unveil that the 'no jab, no job' rule will only persuade a fraction of unvaccinated NHS staff to come forward, with Sajid Javid continuing to back the policy.
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Scottish Government Considers Extending Vaccine Passports to Cafes and Pubs
The SNP Deputy First Minister, John Swinney, has said that the Scottish Government is considering widening the use of its vaccine passport scheme to halt a winter surge in Covid cases.
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Growth Doesn’t Mean More Environmental Impacts
In a recent article, George Monbiot criticised growth, arguing that if the economy doubles in size then so do environmental impacts. But the UK's economy grew by 74% from 1990–2018, while CO2 emissions fell by 19%.
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UK Life Expectancy in 2020 Was Still at 2010 Levels and Over 80, OECD Report Shows
A new report from the OECD shows that UK life expectancy in 2020 was still at 2010 levels and over 80 – which hardly seems a disaster worth sacrificing our health, economy and freedom over.
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