Remember the beginning of the pandemic when every man and his dog started buying up toilet paper? We laughed hysterically as Australians literally fought over toilet paper in the supermarket aisles. Every time there was an outbreak of the disease, everyone rushed to clear the shelves of toilet paper, flour
On his Bowalley Road blogsite, Chris Trotter raises the possibility that Jacinda will resign before Christmas. The reason he believes this is possible is obvious – COVID, particularly the Delta kind. Chris Trotter’s article is as well written and researched as we have come to expect of him, but I
One of the greatest fallacies of the Wuhan pandemic was the delusion by too many governments that they could just “freeze” national economies, turning them off and on like flicking a light switch. As we are seeing with, for instance, the spiralling supply chain crisis, it just doesn’t work
Brett Rowland Regional Editor thecentersquare.com Brett Rowland has worked as a reporter in newsrooms in Illinois and Wisconsin. He most recently served as news editor of the Northwest Herald in Crystal Lake, Illinois. He previously held the same position at the Daily Chronicle in DeKalb. (The Center Square) – Republicans
Patrick Carroll Patrick Carroll has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and is an Editorial Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. Jordan Peterson has become an increasingly outspoken critic of COVID lockdowns and mandates in recent weeks, using his large platform on Twitter to push
Kay O’Lacey wokejoke.nz Information Satire A leaked Police internal memo has revealed the real reason why the unvaxxed can’t go the hairdresser to get their hair cut under a red or orange light in the new traffic light system. With clearly no public health good arising from
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John Coggon University of Bristol John Coggon is Professor of Law in the Centre for Health, Law, and Society, in the University of Bristol Law School. His research focuses in particular on public health ethics and law, and mental capacity law. He is programme director of the LLM in Health,
New Conservative Party Co-Leaders Helen Houghton Ted Johnston The United Kingdom has announced that mandatory vaccine passes will be scrapped, as will the mandatory wearing of masks. Sweden has announced that negative Covid tests will no longer be required to enter the country. What will it take for New
Information Opinion Since I posted images taken from the Police Intranet regarding pushback against mandates, we have received a lot of correspondence. The information below that has been gleaned from numerous emails is very enlightening and shows how serious the position is for the Police Commissioner Andrew ‘Cuddles’ Coster. As
Jenin Younes brownstone.org Jenin Younes is litigation counsel at New Civil Liberties Alliance For two years, the political class’s ineptitude has been on full display. School shutdowns, business closures, and endless mask mandates have all proven relatively ineffective at stemming the spread of COVID-19 (never mind reducing
For most of us, the pandemic has been an utter disaster. But for some, it’s been two years of non-stop win. Oddly enough, the big winners from the pandemic — or more correctly, the response to it — are those with exactly the means and motivation to keep it going
CJ Hopkins cjhopkins.substack.com This isn’t going to be pretty, folks. The downfall of a death cult rarely is. There is going to be wailing and gnashing of teeth, incoherent fanatical jabbering, mass deleting of embarrassing tweets. There’s going to be a veritable tsunami of desperate rationalizing,
I recently wrote that “all Belts and Roads of sneaky Chinese money in the US lead back to Fauci”. I was more right than I knew. I was referring, in that instance, to the case of yet another US scientist caught on the take from China. A scientist whose research
Alberto Giubilini Julian Savulescu mercatornet.com Alberto Giubilini is a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, University of Oxford. Professor Julian Savulescu holds the Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford. He is Director of
One of the biggest lies of the Covid pandemic is that the politicians and bureaucrats were “keeping us safe”. In fact, often the worst outcomes of the pandemic can be traced directly back to the venal incompetence of the Covidians. In Australia, for instance, the Andrews government’s criminally botched
