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Nothing is So Permanent as a Temporary (Scottish) Government Programme
The SNP has unveiled sinister plans to make its emergency Covid powers permanent. Deputy First Minister John Swinney says it's an opportunity to maintain the brilliant 'innovations' the SNP has made in the last 15 months.
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News Round-Up
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus — and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.
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Moderna Covid Vaccine Approved for Use in 12 to 17 Year-Olds by U.K. Regulator
The U.K. medicines regulator says it is safe for children aged 12-17 years to be given the Moderna Covid vaccine, leaving it to the JCVI to decide whether to advise the Government to extend the roll-out of this jab.
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Nature Has Abandoned Scientific Rigour For Woke Virtue-Signalling
Daily Sceptic contributor Dr Noah Carl has written a must-read piece for UnHerd about the decline and fall of Nature, once the world's most prestigious scientific journal but now a wholly owned subsidiary of the woke cult.
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Lockdown Caused Higher Number of Alcohol-Specific Deaths in Scotland in More Than a Decade in 2020
New figures show that the most alcohol-specific deaths were recorded in Scotland in more than a decade in the past year of lockdowns. There were 1,190 in 2020, excluding deaths only partially attributed to alcohol.
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Researchers Find “A Considerably Negative Effect of School Closures on Student Achievement”
There is ample evidence that school closures have hurt student achievement. And the World Bank estimates that “a school shutdown of 5 months could generate learning losses that have a present value of $10 trillion”.
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The Mob Comes For a Vaccine Refusenik
We're publishing an original piece on the Daily Sceptic today by Freddie Attenborough, a former academic, in which he imagines a near future in which vaccine refuseniks are targeted by vigilante mobs of pro-vaxxers.
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New Zealand Entering Lockdown Following Just One Positive Covid Test
The whole of New Zealand is being plunged into another lockdown because of a single positive Covid test result. All schools, offices and 'non-essential' businesses will be closed for between three and seven days.
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A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus — and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.
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Life Returns to Normal… At a Funeral
A reader has emailed the Daily Sceptic with a heart-warming account of a funeral. No masks, no social distancing, plenty of singing and laughter, and all down to the local pub for the wake. Felt like the old normal.
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