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News Round-Up – The Daily Sceptic
dailysceptic.org...The verdict on Covid restrictions” – The Institute of Economic Affairs publishes the new study into lockdowns by Jonas Herby, Dr Lars Jonung and... ...” - “Lockdown was burning down home to destroy wasp"s nest” – Writing in the Daily Mail, Peter Hitchens says he doubts that the IEA report will... ...Lock You Down for 130 Days” – Professor Jay Bhattacharya warns Brownstone Institute readers that President Biden"s new pandemic plan means ongoing... ...Berenson flags up new research from South Korea which finds that mRNA Covid shots caused more sudden cardiac deaths in people under 45 than doctors...

Net Zero ‘Grocery Tax’ Will Push Shopping Bills Up by £4 Billion, Tories warned – The Daily Sceptic...
dailysceptic.org...Greta Thunberg during a protest march to call for action against climate change, in The Hague, Netherlands September 27, 2019.... ...will increase food prices within months, pushing up total shopping bills by up to £4 billion a year, retailers have warned, as senior Tories urged Rishi... ...The levy was devised by Michael Gove during his time as Environment Secretary and billed as helping the U.K. to reduce waste and meet its Net Zero... ...In an open letter to the Telegraph, the British Retail Consortium suggests that a scheme to charge retailers and manufacturers for the cost of councils...

How Popular is DIE in the Workplace? – The Daily Sceptic
dailysceptic.org...Even Britain"s supposedly cash-strapped NHS employs dozens of “diversity managers”, who often get paid as much as doctors.... ...Google trends shows that few Americans searched for “diversity inclusion” before around 2016 – though interest has been steadily climbing since then... ...Yet according to a new survey by Pew Research, just 16% of U.S. workers say DIE is a “bad thing”. And 56% say it's a “good thing”.... ...More research needed....

And Finally... – The Daily Sceptic
dailysceptic.org...of the Institute of Economic Affairs" report claiming the first U.K.... ...In this week"s episode of London Calling, James and I talk about James"s new buff body (he went to the gym with his son last week), why James thinks... ...lockdown in the spring of 2020 only saved 1,700 lives in England and Wales, the defenestration of Philip Schofield, and, in Culture Corner, James... ...is scathing about Poker Face, I am enthusiastic about The Diplomat and James doesn't want to talk about the season finale of Succession because...

BBC Faces Backlash as Trans Character in Casualty Enthuses About Double Mastectomy – The Daily Sceptic...
dailysceptic.org...BBC Faces Backlash as Trans Character in Casualty Enthuses About Double Mastectomy All gender restroom sign. Male, female transgender.... ...normalisation of self-mutilating surgery have said a scene in Casualty, broadcast before the watershed, was a “new low” and questioned whether the BBC... ...The character, Sah, said in another clip released by the BBC: Fair Play for Women, a female rights charity, questioned if the BBC had taken its safeguarding... ...: “Let's see whether the BBC team took its safeguarding responsibilities seriously.”...

Giant Pride Flag on Bromley Hospital Criticised by Health Secretary – The Daily Sceptic
dailysceptic.org...The Princess Royal University Hospital, in Bromley, south London, last week opened a new link-bridge which is wrapped with a giant three-sided “intersex-inclusive... ...Giant Pride Flag on Bromley Hospital Criticised by Health Secretary Rainbow mural painted on a new bridge walkway at Bromley Hospital has been criticised... ...Jonathan Lofthouse, a senior executive at King"s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, one of the largest in the country, which runs the hospital... ...But Steve Barclay has led a fierce backlash against the move....

News Round-Up – The Daily Sceptic
dailysceptic.org...a democratic outrage,” writes Tom Slater in Spiked.... ...A look at the data” – The Spectator"s Fraser Nelson responds to the claim made in the Observer that the Eat Out to Help scheme drove up Covid infections... ...voters,” writes Dominic Lawson in the Sunday Times.... ...- “Boris Johnson may lose legal funding if he "undermines" Government's Covid position” – The Cabinet Office says former PM will lose legal aid if...

Sir Keir Starmer’s Plans to Turn Britain into a ‘Green Energy Superpower’ will Bankrupt Households and Cripple the Economy – The Daily Sceptic...
dailysceptic.org...What effect will Sir Keir Starmer"s ambition to turn Britain into a “clean energy superpower” and ban any further oil and gas exploration have on... ...Countries like India (7 c/KWh) and China (8 c/KWh) and South Korea (9 c/KWh) pay around a fifth of U.K. at 18 c/KWh, France at 21 c/KWh, Singapore... ...As for Sir Keir "Just Stop Oil" Starmer"s boast that he's going to make Britain a "clean energy superpower" – the figures from many countries show... ...As Prince, now King, Charles warned us in May 2009, “The best scientific projections indicate that we have very little time left – indeed less than...

Lockdown Benefits “Drop in the Bucket Compared to the Costs”, Landmark Study Finds – The Daily Sceptic...
dailysceptic.org...A new landmark meta-study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University and Sweden"s Lund University has concluded that that draconian restrictions... ...Scientists from Johns Hopkins University and Lund University examined almost 20,000 studies on measures taken to protect populations against Covid... ...Johns Hopkins is one of the most respected medical schools in the world and became known during the pandemic for its Covid dashboard measuring cases... ..., prevented as few as 1,700 deaths in England and Wales....

The Covid Inquiry’s ‘Commemorative Tapestry’ Reveals its True Purpose – Comforting the Afflicted, Not Afflicting the Comfortable – The Daily Sceptic...
dailysceptic.org...The core of this observation was a passage from Milan Kundera"s The Unbearable Lightness of Being, in which he describes kitsch as being at the heart... ...Commemorative Tapestry" Reveals its True Purpose – Comforting the Afflicted, Not Afflicting the Comfortable Back in July 2021 I wrote an article for the AIER... ...This creates a powerful bond that transcends space and time: when Bob looks at the Mona Lisa and is moved, and knows that anybody else from the past... ...sense of outrage over some perceived injustice, and the sensation that the same rush of emotion is felt by legions of likeminded but anonymous brethren...