Lockdown

COVID-19 Tested Our Commitment to Freedom. Three Years Later, We’re Still Failing

John & Nisha Whitehead “The remedy is worse than the disease.” Francis Bacon The government never cedes power willingly. Neither should we. If the COVID-19 debacle taught us one thing it is that, as Justice Neil Gorsuch acknowledged, “Rule by indefinite emergency edict risks leaving all of us with a shell of a democracy and civil …

Together Declaration Calls on Supporters to Back Anti-Lockdown, Pro-Freedom Candidates

Together Declaration, a prominent anti-lockdown and pro-free-speech pressure group, has announced its intention to support candidates who align with its principles in elections this year.
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Breathtakingly Awful: The ITV Drama Department Outdoes the BBC with New NHS-Worshipping, Pro-Lockdown, Anti-Tory Propaganda Series

The Daily Sceptic's in-house doctor, a former NHS consultant, has watched Breathtaking so you don't have to. As he expected, it's NHS-worshipping, pro-lockdown, anti-Tory dross.
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If You Think Parliament Will Get Any Opportunity to Scrutinise the WHO Pandemic Treaty, Think Again

The WHO Pandemic Treaty is a legally binding agreement that will commit the U.K. to adopt all measures set out by the Director-General during a future 'pandemic'. Yet Parliament will at no point scrutinise or vote on it.
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Malaysian Workers Unable to Retire, Having Been Urged to Cash in Pensions to Survive Lockdown

If you thought the British had it bad under lockdown, have a thought for the Malaysians. Forced to stay at home with no furlough payments, they were told to cash in their pensions. The result is they cannot now retire.
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British Living Standards Are Going Down and the Conservatives Only Have Themselves to Blame

According to newly-published figures, inflation-adjusted living standards in Britain have fallen for five out of the last six quarters. Britons today are worse off than they were in the last quarter of 2017.
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