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Covid Infections Peaked Prior to Lockdown – Any Policy Riding the ‘Down Wave’ Would Have Worked

As the Covid Inquiry continues to suggest that locking down earlier would have saved lives, Nick Rendell reminds us that infections were already falling before lockdown and any response would have seemed to 'work'.
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Why a Bill to Ban Conversion Therapy is a Terrible Idea

Why is the Prime Minister thinking about publishing a bill banning conversion therapy when it’s already illegal in this country? This is precisely the sort of woke virtue-signalling that antagonises people who voted Conservative in 2019.
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Some Call It Conspiracy Theory – Part 2

Iain Davis In Part 1 we contrasted the popular misconceptions about so-called “conspiracy theorists” with the well-grounded demographic research done on the individuals who, collectively, have had that pejorative label slapped on them. The demographic research reveals that there is no such thing as an identifiable group of people who can legitimately be called “conspiracy theorists.” The …

What is a Woman? Response to Jacqueline Rose

Simon Elmer The week after I published my article, ‘Trans Rights and the Order of Speech’ in Off-Guardian, The New Statesman published two articles by, respectively, the biologist, Richard Dawkins, ‘Why biological sex matters’ and the feminist, Jacqueline Rose, ‘The gender binary is false’. I don’t know Rose personally, but her 1986 book, Sexuality in the Field of Vision, had a considerable influence on …

Schools to Be Required to Disclose Content of Controversial Sex Education Lessons Under Proposed Law

After the courts ruled that the content of controversial pro-trans and 'sex positive' sex education lessons may be kept secret from parents, MPs prepare to legislate to force disclosure.
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