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UK Sage Group Scientist Says Lockdowns a Mistake

UK Sage Group Scientist Says Lockdowns a Mistake

Plan B While New Zealand commentators remain enamoured with lockdown, the rest of the world is thinking again… A member of the UK’s Sage group advising the government says lockdowns were a mistake. “Lockdown was a panic measure and I believe history will say trying to control Covid-19 through

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Lockdowns Must Never Happen Again, Says Scientist

Lockdowns Must Never Happen Again, Says Scientist

For months, I’ve been writing that lockdowns are a useless and destructive response to the Wuhan pandemic. At first, it was only a few contrarian scientists and academics who dared point out what the data were unequivocally showing: lockdowns do not work and cause more harm than they prevent.

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Letter From the North: What on Earth Is Going On?

We are now subject to regional lockdowns, town by town. These are increasingly ignored by an untrusting population, especially the young who appear to think that lack of age gives them immunity. They are possibly right in that COVID-19 doesn’t seem to affect them anywhere as near as the

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News You Can Trust From Lambton Quay and the World

News You Can Trust From Lambton Quay and the World

Information Satire Latest poll results In a survey carried out this week support for the Labour party is strengthening. 66% of respondents said that they would vote for Labour at the next election, 33% said that they would vote National. 1% don’t knows was a rounding error. This poll

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Labour Aims to Win This Election on a Lie: Part 2

Labour Aims to Win This Election on a Lie: Part 2

The second method by which the socialists achieve their aims is by packaging their leaders as ‘moderate’. The final destination for the left, its proper raison d’être if you will, is that of Trotsky and Lenin. But the Bolsheviks didn’t win elections. Although the result of our last

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Letter From the North: Financial Dark Skies Ahead

Taking time off from writing my letters from the North I managed to do some work for my day job. During my busy week, I had some interesting face time with managers of second-level funding institutions. These are participating in and advising on the Government protection devices attempting to keep

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Letter From the North: Absolute Incompetence

Letter From the North: Absolute Incompetence

I thought that if I left things to settle down for a couple of weeks or so I would be able to report events with a positive note. How wrong can you be? I have previously suggested that the government of the UK was developing into a complete shambles, but

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No Jokes, Please, We’re Scottish

No Jokes, Please, We’re Scottish

As Theodore Dalrymple points out, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is a nationalist and a socialist: “a national socialist”. Which might, perhaps, explain her government’s hyper-sensitivity to erstwhile national socialist leader Adolf Hitler being mocked by silly-looking dogs. When YouTube comedian Mark Meechan, aka “Count Dankula”, posted a video

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News You Can Trust from Lambton Quay and the World

News You Can Trust from Lambton Quay and the World

Information Satire Limerick competition Many thanks for the entrants to our Limerick competition, the submissions came flooding in. Both of them were given careful consideration and the following was selected as the winner: – there was a young girl from Waikatowhose intelligence reached a low plateauthe economy went flopincomes did dropand

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Letter from the North: July 20

Letter from the North: July 20

Following on from my previous letter regarding China, there are now interesting developments in the UK. It has ditched Huawei from the 5G programme and is looking to remove Huawei’s influence from the current infrastructure over the next few years. The UK’s mobile providers are being banned from

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It’s Better Not to Engage in the BLM Debate

It’s Better Not to Engage in the BLM Debate

Douglas Murray’s advice about responding to the BLM movement is not to play the racist game. He says you cannot win and gives the example of a UK discussion paper titled ‘Inequalities and Racial Discrimination’ produced by the Birmingham and Solihull NHS Mental Health Trust (BAME). The appropriate and

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Hypocritical Harry

Hypocritical Harry

Prince Harry and Megan Markle are carving out a new life removed from Harry’s privileged upbringing and aligned to Megan’s aspiration to become Hollywood new royalty. Harry has thrown his past away to the winds of change and adopted a new ideology saying “the wrongs of the past

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