FOLLOWING the submission of a public petition calling for a referendum of the British electorate before any treaty committing the country to take instruction under international law from the World Health Organisation on its future response to pandemics, the UK Government has issued its response. Instead of saying it was in listening mode and might …
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THE Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office – run by Foreign Secretary Liz Truss – has responded to the public petition requesting that no treaty should be signed with the World Health Organisation (WHO) without the consent of a national referendum – by rejecting the appeal out of hand. For readers unaware of the petition, it …
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Here’s why it matters so much IT’S NOT the rule-breaking that was the problem, it was the rule-making. That’s the essential point about Partygate. We see Boris Johnson’s No 10 flouting rules they clearly felt were ludicrous, inappropriate, repressive, disproportionate and ineffective. Otherwise they wouldn’t have partied as they did, or tried to defend their …
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JUST LAST WEEKEND Jeremy Hunt rather made a fool of himself. Going on GB News he had the shameless audacity to claim that had he been Prime Minister he would have avoided Boris Johnson’s lockdowns (essentially by using track and trace – which was not even in place to cope with the tsunami of numbers it would …
Sir Keir Starmer cannot duck his large share of the lockdown blame Read More »
HAVE SOME POLITICIANS never heard of Google? Are there really people in today’s politics who don’t realise we can look-up the internet via things called search engines and find what they and their colleagues have said in the past? Either Jeremy Hunt, former Health Secretary and losing candidate for the Conservative Party leadership in 2019, …
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By Brian Monteith – 5 minute read Here’s a simple question to ask yourself, or your friends and relatives – “After all that you have experienced and witnessed during the last two years of the Covid pandemic do you trust your own government to manage the next pandemic response, if one is required?” I have no …
There’s good news from the outcome of the Covid Inquiry terms of reference consultation – but there are also some serious concerns. THE IMPORTANCE of the Covid-19 Inquiry to the future of this country is enormous. It has at its core a mission to learn the lessons of the Covid-19 response ‘for the future’ which …
Covid Public Inquiry terms of reference – More wins than worries? Read More »
By Brian monteith – 4 minute read AFTER ALL WE have witnessed these last two years there are only two ways we can choose to manage our public health response to global pandemics. The first is to recognise we were patronised, manipulated, lied to, censored, sometimes criminalised or put under effective house arrest, unable to see …
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IT SEEMS that few places are currently safe from Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s ‘Zero Covid’ strategy, a policy designed to keep his country’s Covid death rate (a figure often disputed by the outside world) at an extremely low level just as the rest of the world is learning to live with the virus. The stories …
YET ANOTHER study has been published pulling down the claims of effectiveness of mask wearing and consequently mask mandates as a worthwhile medical intervention to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Published in the medical journal Cureus, the peer-reviewed ‘Correlation Between Mask Compliance and COVID-19 Outcomes in Europe’ is naturally causing a stir. Authored by Beny Spira, …
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