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Did Virus Hunters Cover Up a Lab Leak?
Why did the Global Virome Project, a well-funded public health initiative set up to investigate the origins of viruses in 2018, fail to investigate the outbreak of COVID-19? Matt Ridley and Presenjit Ray investigate.
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U.K. Covid Cases Plunge Another 40% and Dip Below 20,000 For First Time Since Last June
The number of people testing positive for Covid per day in the U.K. has fallen by 40% since last week and is now at its lowest since last June.
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Will There Be Mass Famines This Year?
The UN's food price index is now as high as it was during the 1970s oil crisis, and the World Food Programme has warned that 2022 will be a year of “catastrophic hunger”. Lockdown is one major culprit.
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Massaging the Data to Eliminate Temperature Pauses, Deleting Evidence that there Were More Wildfires in the First Half of the 20th Century than the Second – Move Along Please, Nothing to See Here
Green zealots claiming to be following 'the Science' have been busy deleting historical data that contradicts their 'end is nigh' narrative. The Daily Sceptic's Environment Editor Chris Morrison sets the record straight.
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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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Are Netflix’s Recent Difficulties a Case of ‘Get Woke, Go Broke’?
Netflix has lost 200,000 subscribers in the last three months and expects to lose another two million more in the three months to July. Has the streaming giant become too woke for its own good?
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Sudden Shift to Organic Farming Plunges Sri Lanka into Worst Economic Crisis Since 1948
The President of Sri Lanka issued a sudden ban on chemical fertilisers last April, forcing farmers to go organic. The result is the worst financial crisis since 1948 and impending food shortages.
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Free Speech Union Opens Scottish Office
Peter Kearney, Director of Communications for the Catholic Church in Scotland, has written a great Thunderer for the Times explaining why he's joined the Scottish Advisory Council of the Free Speech Union.
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Straight From the Freezer: the Cold War in Ukraine
The story of the war in Ukraine is not just one of Russian bellicosity and irredentism, but also the hubris of the West at the end of the Cold War. We thought history had ended, but history had other ideas.
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New York City Data Show Infection Rates TWICE as High Among the Boosted – But Trickery Hides Low Infection Rates Among the Unvaccinated
Bill de Blasio really should warn people that NYC official data suggest that in taking his $100 to get boosted they’re going to be twice as likely to become infected and twice as likely to infect a vulnerable person.
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