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Freddie Sayers

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1 year

When the White House announces that there is an “epidemic of violence against trans people” what does that even mean? It’s language used to signal virtue rather than describe anything with precision — and it’s coming from the most powerful office in the world.

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3 years

Quite amazing how the Omicron wave surged and then turned around at almost the same time across so many countries — almost as if it paid no attention to their divergent policies...

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2 years

Suddenly the @Guardian is all over the lockdown harms stories. Where were you at the time? Your unthinking moralistic enforcement of lockdowns helped create the very problems that you are now reporting as news 😡

Covid might have changed people’s personalities, study suggests

Younger adults became more prone to stress and less trusting, say US researchers

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

The best way for Boris to turn his polls around is to make a big ‘time of living in fear is over’ speech, immediately end remaining Covid restrictions, require every covid related sign to be removed and announce that England is open for business and back to life.

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5 months

Here is the full length video report into the mysterious 'Global Disinformation Index' and how it censors political speech across Europe and the US. Please share widely, more people need to know.

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2 months

Prof Sir John Curtice lays out some brutal facts to put this Labour landslide into perspective: — Labour’s vote share in England has *stayed the same* since the last election — Most of the Tory losses are explained by former Tory voters choosing Reform — Keir Starmer has won

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3 years

Literally in the same speech from the PM: "It is now clear that two doses of the vaccine are simply not enough to give the level of protection we all need" Then: vaccine passports for nightclubs and large events, with double-vaccinated exempt from requirement to test 🤔

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2 years

This exchange shows how close to a propaganda state we got during Covid. The media taking direct orders from their chums in government to stoke fear and “demand” for virus services that wasn’t there. #lockdownfiles

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4 years

WTAF. @YouTube has taken down our interview with @ProfKarolSikora - Professor of Medicine at @UniOfBuckingham , former advisor to WHO - presumably for sounding too optimistic about Covid-19. This really is getting sinister.

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3 years

What a calamity that he can say this and be entirely correct

Liam McCollum

@MLiamMcCollum

3 years

The Taliban spokesman got a question about freedom of speech and he said the question should be asked to US companies like Facebook who claim to promote it while still censoring

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3 years

"Judge me in a year," he told me in summer 2020. One year on, Swedish Covid chief Anders Tegnell returned to @UnHerd to look back at lessons of the pandemic. He was modest and cautious, but his overall message was clear: Sweden got it right. 👇👇👇

Anders Tegnell: Sweden won the argument on Covid

Of all the celebrities that have been created during the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, Swedish State Epidemiologist Anders Tegnell is perhaps the most surprising. A softly-spoken official within...

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11 months

Wowses. Ex Greek finance minister @yanisvaroufakis tells me Suella Braverman should be "expelled" from the UK for starting this "misanthropic, stupid debate" about immigration — that she is a "ridiculous idiot" and a "poor excuse for human nature"😳

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3 years

Latest from Neil Ferguson and Imperial estimates Omicron as intrinsically 70% less severe than Delta. Quite a difference from their 16th Dec report to SAGE: "We find no evidence of Omicron having different severity from Delta." No mention of why they got it so wrong before.

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11 months

The UK Govt Health Security Agency quietly published its report this week into whether Covid lockdowns worked and concludes... wait for it... "There is a lack of strong evidence on the effectiveness of NPIs to reduce COVID-19 transmission."

Government report: no good evidence that lockdown worked

On Wednesday, the UK Health Security Agency quietly released a review which found that the evidence base for the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) on Covid transmission was...

unherd.com

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3 years

This 26 year old Australian, identified as a 'contact' of a Covid case but never testing positive, was held at an internment camp outside Darwin without her consent for 14 days. There was no legal process or recourse. Come on liberals, where are you?

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3 years

But they obviously weren’t socially distanced like this throughout the summit - why is this kind of Covid theatre now considered normal?

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2 years

China announces change of Covid strategy: “Identify population base of the elderly, patients with underlying diseases, pregnant women, patients with chronic diseases and other groups, and formulate health and safety protection plans for them.” Ummm @gbdeclaration 2 years late?

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3 years

Slightly depressed that this story is being covered by “right wing” channels all over the world but not a peep from BBC/Guardian/NYT et al. Where’s the outrage about the shredding of due process, arbitrary detention, everything you’ve been championing for years? 😔

Freddie Sayers

@freddiesayers

3 years

This 26 year old Australian, identified as a 'contact' of a Covid case but never testing positive, was held at an internment camp outside Darwin without her consent for 14 days. There was no legal process or recourse. Come on liberals, where are you?

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2 years

Just met my first pub menu with calories and it’s a disaster. Campaign to reverse this nonsense begins immediately

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3 years

The most depressing combination of words in the English language

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4 months

Wow. The Times of London devotes its lead editorial to the pernicious influence of the Global Disinformation Index, saying "it has helped to stymie valuable and independent-minded journalism on the basis of little more than ideological prejudice." 🔥

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3 years

I’m in Vienna on day 1 of the world’s first ‘lockdown for the unvaccinated’ for a forthcoming #UnHerdTV special report. It’s eerie - and talking to people I can’t escape the feeling that the measure is more punitive than practical.

Inside Austria's lockdown for the unvaccinated

Vienna UPDATE: Don’t miss the full story and video report, now live HERE I’m in Vienna on day one of the world’s first lockdown for only the unvaccinated. At first glance it seems like an ordinary,...

unherd.com

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3 years

Confinement and house arrest for a whole minority of the Austrian population deemed unclean. This is terrifying.

BNO News

@BNOFeed

3 years

BREAKING: Austria announces nationwide lockdown for unvaccinated people

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3 years

Sorry but I can’t pretend to be outraged. Don’t care, can’t care. All it shows is how stupid the rules were all along. Meanwhile Russia is assembling tanks on Europe’s border and the financial markets are tanking. Is there anyone serious left in this country? Helloooooo

Paul Brand

@PaulBrandITV

3 years

EXCLUSIVE: Boris Johnson had a birthday party during lockdown in June 2020 despite rules forbidding social gatherings indoors, ITV News has learnt. Up to 30 staff celebrated in the cabinet room where Carrie Johnson surprised him with a cake, we're told.

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1 year

Beautiful walk around Stanford university campus with @DrJBhattacharya and John Ioannidis. Despite the intimidation campaigns of 2020 they are not bitter — they have chosen to stay and pursue science, liberalism and academic freedom. With a smile. Heroes.

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2 years

Russian ruble now *higher* against the dollar than before the war.

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1 year

There's something very odd about changing speed limits to 20mph all over London (and Wales) at the same time as rolling out ULEZ in theory to reduce emissions. The evidence suggests that driving slower at 20mph *increases* toxic emissions...

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1 year

The "trans business" has become like a religion, @RichardDawkins tells me, with the change in gender akin to the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation: Full interview here:

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1 year

Can’t even watch the Matt Hancock Covid testimony because it makes me too angry. The question we should be asking is how such a dangerous and pathetic man got into such a position of power, and how we can make sure it never happens again.

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5 years

Ref ⁦ @joswinson ⁩ ‘white men’ comment, here’s a reminder of the crowd at last month’s Lib Dem party conference. Prize to anyone who spots a non white face!

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2 years

I am Swedish, went to Sweden multiple times in 2020 and 2021 and I can tell you it was *not* in some kind of 'voluntary lockdown'. This is pure cope, designed to obscure the powerful evidence that lockdowns were ineffective and unnecessary.

Mark Kingsley-Williams

@Mark_LawPanel

2 years

@freddiesayers @andrew_lilico An implied false assertion in discussing pros and cons of lockdowns, is that where/when no lockdowns life was normal as per pre-pandemic. Accounts from Sweden were that caution was generally taken and mixing generally reduced, due to personal and social responsibility.

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3 years

The trouble we will face is that, if Omicron is mild but spreads very fast, then it will be all over the hospitals so hospitalisation and death numbers will look worse than they are (because everyone will have it whatever their other medical issues)

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3 years

What percentage of Covid transmission happens in shops? And what percentage of that will be prevented by making cloth facemasks mandatory? We're surely down to a fraction of 1 per cent at that point. As a response to 2 UK cases of a new variant it seems utterly tokenistic.

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2 years

How bad do the NHS disaster stories have to get for the conversation to move on from “it just needs more money” to “we have to rethink it from first principles”?

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2 months

Votes for Labour in: 2017 (Jeremy Corbyn) — 12,877,918 2019 (Jeremy Corbyn) — 10,269,051 2024 (Keir Starmer) — 9,686,329

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3 years

Denmark, England, now Finland ends all Covid rules. Domino effect has begun. Likely order? Something like Norway, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands, Greece, Spain, France, Austria, Italy 🤷🏼‍♂️

PM Marin: Finland to lift all Covid restrictions in February

The PM made the comments a couple of days after the country entered its third year of dealing with the epidemic.

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3 years

Prof Neil Ferguson tells Politico: “I’m quite happy to be wrong if it’s wrong in the right direction.” But why is making overly pessimistic forecasts an error in the right direction? The fact that gov scientists think that way has enormous consequences.

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7 months

Now might be a good time to repost my interview with Devi Sridhar in August 2020, in which she argues for 48 minutes in favour of Zero Covid. Her most bonkers suggestion (among many): that people living in towns in England *without* Covid should be forbidden from travelling out

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1 year

Wow. That's just handy isn't it, from the most quoted advisor in the British media!

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3 years

The "with" thing again 🤦‍♂️

At least one person in UK has died with Omicron, says Boris Johnson

PM says idea that Omicron is ‘milder version’ of virus should be set aside as he confirms death of patient from Covid variant

www.theguardian.com

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1 year

The language in that Coutts memo is truly chilling. The words “Inclusivity” and “Purpose” now fulfil the same function that “Socialism” did for Soviet apparatchiks — lofty-sounding cover for acts against people you don’t like.

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3 years

It seems like the longstanding question over naturally-acquired immunity versus immunity from vaccination might have been answered. If it checks out, it will have far-reaching policy implications.

‘Bombshell’ study finds natural immunity superior to vaccination

A major study conducted by Israeli researchers into natural immunity has found that immunity acquired via infection from Covid-19 is superior to immunity from the Pfizer vaccine. Researchers at...

unherd.com

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Freddie Sayers

@freddiesayers

2 years

70% of Twitter staff; 18,000 at Amazon; 10% of Salesforce. @DavidSacks tells me the @elonmusk effect is cascading across Silicon Valley. Suddenly, your job is "no longer based on what your politics are. It’s based on what your contribution is." 👇👇👇

David Sacks: the tech reset has only just begun

As the cheap money era draws to a close, perhaps no industry has been worse affected than the tech sector. Last year, there were nearly 100,000 job cuts — an astonishing 649% increase from the nearly...

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4 years

Whatever you think of the PM's Christmas advice, this front page is horrible.

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1 year

Nick Cave's early punk music energy was all about "fucking with people," he told me. Me: "How do you fuck with people in 2023?" Cave: "You'd go to church and be a conservative." 👇👇👇

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2 years

This is inside a popular restaurant in Stockholm, taken on 17th July 2020. No masks, no social distancing, completely normal. The whole ‘Swedish people locked down without a mandate’ spin is nonsense. It had best excess death result in Europe. Those are the facts.

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3 years

What's so depressing here is the sense of spin, nudging, communicating not straightforward facts but "messaging" to achieve an outcome. People are sick of it.

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3 years

Some sobering statistics for those that say we are already basically back to normal: 🔻1 in 4 UK licensed premises (25,000) have not yet reopened as restrictions make them unviable 🔻45% of sports and social clubs remain closed 🔻8,500 premises have shut their doors for good

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3 years

Announcement on repeat at Victoria Station: “Please use hand sanitizer when entering and leaving the station. The little things we do help protect the little things we love.” Please, @TfL , for the love of God make it stop 🙏🏻

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3 years

So many young people I know have tested positive with Omicron, have their Xmas plans ruined and are stuck at home. Someone should do a club night for only pozzed people. Proof of positive status required for entry…

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3 years

Well that didn't last long. Cases actually started increasing *faster* after the lockdown for the unvaccinated, so Austria is now moving to universal lockdown and mandatory vaccination from the spring.

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2 years

A major Danish study reports concerning differences in all-cause mortality between types of Covid vaccine — and barely anyone reports it 🤔 Analysis by @DrJBhattacharya and interview with lead Prof @StabellBenn now up at @UnHerd :

Study into mRNA vaccine death rates sends 'danger signals'

Do the covid vaccines save lives? That is the question on many people’s minds, that has led to heated discussions across the world. A bombshell new study by a distinguished team of Danish researchers...

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1 year

You hear that? That’s the sound of thousands of CEOs worldwide rapidly re-evaluating the risk-reward ratio of corporate woke activism. Quite a momentous 24h.

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1 year

Seems very hard to argue with any of this — @soniasodha being brilliantly reasonable on the @BBC

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4 years

It’s genuinely frightening to me how lightly people seem to value their freedoms - readiness to give them up has become, incredibly, a sign of virtue

Stig Abell

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4 years

The solution for coronavirus surely worth considering is to shut borders for all non-essential travel until next year, bail out the aviation and travel industries, then aggressively test, trace and lockdown locally in this country. National self-isolation of people, not goods.

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3 years

Case numbers are *decreasing* in South Africa @sajidjavid @BorisJohnson . Feels like this might be worth looking into before you lurch the country into yet more restrictions

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@freddiesayers

3 years

As the Netherlands considers its first post-vaccine lockdown, I'm in the @telegraph trying to work out how the most nominally liberal governments became the most illiberal of the new era:

‘Liberals’ are now the new authoritarians

The so-called progressives who run the Netherlands are once again reaching for lockdown measures

www.telegraph.co.uk

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2 years

Suddenly there is wide open space for a new populist movement in the UK: - anti-globalist/technocrat - pro-freedom - culturally conservative - non free market-fundamentalist Neither Tories or Labour anywhere near. Will anyone emerge to seize the opportunity?

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3 years

This is how tired parents talk to naughty five year olds, not normally how presidents talk to voters

President Biden

@POTUS

3 years

The rule is now simple: get vaccinated or wear a mask until you do. The choice is yours.

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3 years

Punchy language from 1200 Church of England and Catholic priests writing to govt against vaccine passports. They didn’t hold back!

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3 years

✔️ No more facemasks ✔️ No more work from home guidance ✔️ No more Covid passes It’s not everything, but England is saying farewell to Covid life ahead of most of the rest of the world.

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@freddiesayers

3 years

England is now uniquely positioned to show the world the way out of the Covid era. (And if Boris sees this opportunity, it might just save his premiership) Me at @UnHerd :

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3 years

Any red wall Tory MP who thinks Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss will help them win their next election is having a laugh.

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2 years

It’s not the specific revelations of the #lockdownfiles so much as the *tone* that we should remember. Too much government power always ends up with pathetic little men getting off on it and disregarding the real-world impact of their whims. Authoritarianism 101.

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NEW Profs @SunetraGupta @MartinKulldorff and Jay Bhattacharya met over the weekend in the US to write a declaration calling for a different #Covid approach. They're in Washington DC today meeting admin officials. Text and interview up now on @unherd

Covid experts: there is another way

Three eminent epidemiologists met in Massachusetts to plan a better response to the pandemic

unherd.com

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@freddiesayers

2 years

Hunt. The same Hunt who approvingly quoted China sealing in its citizens in their homes during lockdown. Beneath the genial centrist exterior there's a hard-edged technocrat with a thirst for power and an admiration for authoritarians. Watch out!

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NEW 📽️ @DrJBhattacharya and other scientists are suing Anthony Fauci and the Biden admin for breach of 1st amendment rights over Covid era censorship. If successful, it would set a historic precedent for freedom of speech. Full interview on #UnHerdTV :

Jay Bhattacharya: The legal case against Anthony Fauci

In October 2020, the Great Barrington Declaration was published by three academics — Jay Bhattacharya, Sunetra Gupta and Martin Kulldorff — who appeared on UnHerd to break the story. It marked a...

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2 months

I've just read the first formal report of the UK's Covid enquiry by Baroness Hallett. While she is meticulously careful to avoid arriving at any conclusions on important questions (eg were lockdowns worth it?) she has included a few sentences that leap out from the page: 🧵

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1 year

John Sopel and Emily Maitlis, fresh from attending George Osborne's wedding last weekend, are now co-hosting Tony Blair's policy summit today. Must be so liberating for them to have left the establishment BBC and be free to rattle the cage with fresh ideas!

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2 years

Can we please have a universal amnesty on absurd breaches of absurd Covid rules, ideally alongside a promise never to introduce them again? Then can we please start talking about more interesting things? Thank you!

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4 years

Ta da! @YouTube reinstates our @ProfKarolSikora interview - no doubt persuaded by the huge negative attention they were getting on here, so thanks Twitterers ✌🏻 For people without noisy friends, this kind of big tech censorship is the end of the road. Scary.

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3 years

The latest estimates of protection from infection from 2 vaccines (<50%) leave the case for domestic vaccine passports in tatters.

The new case for jabs makes the idea of vaccine passports absurd

A combination of new variants and fading immunity has left early hopes of 95 per cent protection in tatters

www.telegraph.co.uk

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"Covid measures have become theatrical rituals intended to convey seriousness, reassure the compliant that their sacrifices have not been in vain, and punish the noncompliant." Park Macdougald @hpmacd on Novak Djokovic @UnHerd

Novak Djokovic is Covid's ritual sacrifice

The public embrace of Novak Djokovic was nice while it lasted. Now it’s back to controversy, complete with media tut-tutting that the Serb is setting a bad example. After a public outcry, and some...

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1 year

In which Richard Dawkins - acknowledges that being religious is better for human flourishing - takes back his Covid-era vilification of vaccine refusers - condemns universities for not protecting dissident faculty like Kathleen Stock

Was New Atheism a mistake?

Richard Dawkins on God, vaccines and his poetic spirit

unherd.com

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24 days

Within the past 24h: 1. Thierry Breton, EU Commissioner and chief regulator, sends a threatening letter to Elon Musk 2. Musk responds by telling him to “literally fuck your own face” 3. The EU commission distances itself from Breton Rather clarifies where the power lies 😳

Financial Times

@FT

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The European Commission has denied that its internal market commissioner had approval from Ursula von der Leyen to send the letter, with one EU official saying, 'Thierry has his own mind and way of working and thinking'.

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Did the BBC, CBS etc go live to Wuhan at any previous new year? No. Now the Chinese govt arranges a lovely (somewhat obnoxious) PR display and all the Western news networks obediently take it? 🤨

CBS News

@CBSNews

4 years

Once the coronavirus epicenter, thousands pack Wuhan, China and let go of balloons to celebrate the New Year

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No wonder people are terrified about this thing never being allowed to end when every day there are stories like this in the media - it’s not hysteria, it’s an entirely rational anxiety

The Telegraph

@Telegraph

4 years

🚨 Experts have warned that restrictions on large gatherings could remain in place for 'the next few years'

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6 months

Andrew Sullivan on Joe Biden is quite something

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3 years

The central fantasy in the Cummings testimony is that he and a couple of brainiacs invented lockdown late in the night in Number Ten, bravely going against the consensus. In reality it was simply the UK falling into line with the same policy as the rest of the Western world.

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One thing’s for sure: after today’s protests if there *isnt* a dramatic spike in Covid cases in 1-3 weeks it will be tricky to argue that outside social distancing is even worth talking about

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9 months

Thanks @BBCNews ⁩ but this does not read like a neutral news alert

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3 years

And half way through he should say that Partygate has showed him the absurdity of trying to micromanage all society via centralised diktat - and vow that he will never make that mistake again

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11 months

Blast from the past: July 2020. In retrospect, it's amazing how heretical and brave it seemed for Anders Tegnell simply to stick to normal principles of evidence-based policy. But the rest of the world — including many still influential people on here — had gone mad.

Kevin Bass PhD MS

@kevinnbass

1 year

July 2020 Anders Tegnell, in charge of Sweden's COVID response, said he did not mandate masks because they are unscientific and provide false reassurance. He was fiercely criticized for this. From 2020-23, Sweden had the lowest excess death rate in Europe. Tegnell was right.

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This is horrific. Hopefully will help people see that the currently fashionable authoritarianism takes us to a dark place

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3 years

The Health Protection (Vaccination) regulations 2009 place a legal requirement on the Secretary of State for Health to accept the JCVI recommendations when it comes to national vaccination programmes:

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Asked about the aviation industry, the prime minister says: "The best thing for them is to get flying — and that's absolutely critical". Great idea! Why didn't they think of that?

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You have to wonder whether, if Boris had followed his original instincts and taken a braver course on Covid more similar to Sweden, he would still be prime minister today.

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Plan B is bad policy, bad politics, and should be resisted or ignored. Me in @UnHerd

Why Plan B is a mistake

The Government’s new restrictions set a dangerous precedent

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3 years

Why have you chosen this path for us, @BorisJohnson ?

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3 years

Why have you chosen this path for us, @BorisJohnson ?

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Ouch. From both Left and Right, it’s a far cry from March. Number Ten is making decisions based on opinion polls, but the thing about public opinion is *it changes*. Rather like the media, it’s with you... until it isn’t

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*NEW INTERVIEW* Dr Steve James, who challenged Sajid Javid over vax mandates, tells me - why he hasn't got the vaccine - why is prepared to lose his job over it - why 10% of NHS staff agree with him A minority voice, but deserves to be heard.

Dr Steve James: I’d sacrifice my job over vaccine mandates

Steve James is a critical care consultant at King’s College Hospital in London. When Health Secretary Sajid Javid visited last Friday, he asked the NHS staff about what they thought of the forthcom...

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Freddie Sayers

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"BBC Verify" is being pushed very hard on the nightly news, Newsnight etc Given the appalling record of so-called fact-checkers over the past few years, the creation of an official Truth Department within the national broadcaster is a mighty hostage to fortune.

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"All a lockdown does is reduce infection levels for the period of time it's in force," Neil Ferguson tells the BBC. "Once you release the lockdown, infection levels start going up again."

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Slightly stunned by this. A new UnHerd/Focaldata poll out today reveals that 54% of Britons aged 18-24 agree with the statement: "The state of Israel should not exist" 😶

Majority of young Britons think Israel should not exist

A majority of Britain’s young people do not believe Israel should exist, a new UnHerd poll has revealed. A preliminary finding of an exclusive survey of 1,012 voters about foreign policy, conducted...

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⁦ @BBCNews ⁩ decides to send a push notification to 1.5m Brits at 9pm on a Friday night to inform them that Gwyneth Paltrow’s skiing accident trial is… ongoing.

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So Patrick Vallance, chief UK scientific advisor during lockdowns, is now joining the Tony Blair Institute, which campaigns for health data passports and is funded by Oracle. It’s like they are trying to turn everyone into conspiracists!

Sir Patrick Vallance joins Tony Blair Institute

Former Government chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance has joined the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI), the ex-prime minister’s organisation has announced. Vallance has been...

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In 2020, Prof @SunetraGupta was pilloried for her suggestion to @UnHerd that the Covid Infection Fatality Rate could be close to 5 in 10,000. Three years on, new data from Denmark suggests the real figure is... 6.5 in 10,000. Read her response here:

Was I wrong about the Covid infection fatality rate?

For suggesting that the average IFR of Covid-19 might be between 0.01% and 0.05% during an early 2020 interview with UnHerd, I was mocked by large sections of the media and accused of minimising the...

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Freddie Sayers

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New on #LockdownTV @UnHerd Spoke to Scott Atlas, Snr advisor to @realDonaldTrump and member of the task force, from his office in the White House... and he sure didn't hold back. Blistering, I'd call it. Video and key quotes here 👇👇👇

Scott Atlas: I'm disgusted and dismayed

Podcast version: Freddie Sayers caught up with Scott Atlas, a healthcare policy academic from the Hoover Institute at Stanford, who has become the latest lightning rod for the controversy around...

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“This doesn’t mean Farage is necessarily right — there are many well-informed people who take the opposite view — but his position is reasonable and intellectually defensible. It does not make him a ‘Putin apologist’.” @NoahCarl90 at @UnHerd :

Nigel Farage's Ukraine comments aren't 'disgraceful'

Ever since Nigel Farage announced that he would stand for election as leader of Reform UK, the political class has been looking for an opportunity to thwart him. Those on the liberal-Left deplore his...

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Me in @UnHerd on the cost of introducing policies (facemasks in shops in response to Omicron variant!) that nobody thinks will work. 👇👇👇

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This was an extraordinary interview. If you watch one thing today, watch this. Prof Johan Giesecke, one of the most senior epidemiologists in the world, lays out with typical Swedish bluntness why he thinks lockdowns are a historic overreaction:

Swedish expert: why lockdowns are the wrong policy

That was one of the more extraordinary interviews we have done here at UnHerd. Professor Johan Giesecke, one of the world’s most senior epidemiologists, advisor to the Swedish Government (he hired...

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