Systemic racism, according to those who campaign against it, is the disadvantage experienced by ethnic minorities on account of the bias, conscious and subconscious, that some people, particularly from the ethnic majority, have in respect of them. Even though racial discrimination in most contexts is unlawful, it still happens, and the impact falls largely on... Continue Reading →
The Government is right to be re-thinking gender self-identification
A leaked Government paper confirms what had been expected for a while, that the Government is planning to scrap plans drawn up under Theresa May to allow people to 'self-identify' as the opposite sex. The idea was to allow transgender people to change their birth certificate without a medical diagnosis, but according to The Sunday Times this has been... Continue Reading →
Why is the media still swallowing Ferguson’s lockdown nonsense?
Professor Neil Ferguson, whose notorious modelling predicting more than a quarter of a million deaths in a voluntary social distancing scenario prompted the UK lockdown on March 23, was at it again on Wednesday. Despite resigning in disgrace at the start of May after being caught breaking lockdown to host his married lover, he was back in Parliament... Continue Reading →
Imperial strikes again: the sloppy science that would doom us to eternal lockdown
Two new studies have been published – including one from Imperial College, London – saying lockdowns have worked against coronavirus and it’ll be catastrophic to lift them. Yet the Imperial model (as before) ‘assumes that changes in the reproduction number are an immediate response to interventions rather than gradual changes in behaviour'. So the authors assume their thesis.... Continue Reading →
Is this proof that social distancing makes things worse?
Increasingly it is becoming clear that far more people are resistant to the Wuhan coronavirus than was initially assumed, and thus that collective immunity is achieved at a much lower infection rate than 60 per cent. Ross Clark in the Spectator reports on a study in the journal Cell which finds 40 to 60 per cent of a control group... Continue Reading →