Tag: Sweden

Five years ago today, a supposedly freedom-loving government, led by a libertarian conservative, oversaw the greatest interference in our liberty in the history of these islands. Why? How? What were they thinking?

The collapse of Swedish battery startup Northvolt shows once more that there is no such thing as 'green' industry, says Ben Pile. Industry needs lots of cheap energy – something that China has and Europe doesn't.

In America, Prof Jay Bhattacharya, the lockdown sceptic once derided by NIH chief Francis Collins as a "fringe epidemiologist", is about to take over as NIH head in truly sweet karma. But the UK is still mired in denial.

The number of migrants granted asylum in Sweden dropped to the lowest level in 40 years in 2024 after a years-long crackdown on immigration under a succession of Governments. If Sweden can do it, why can't the U.K.?

In his new memoir, Boris Johnson admits the lockdowns he imposed may not have worked, given the similarity in the ebb and flow of the disease around the world, irrespective of the different restrictions imposed.

Sweden clearly showed that lockdown wasn't worth it and didn't work, says Daniel Hannan. But how long until people are willing to hear that?

Listening to Lee Cain on UnHerd, it's clear that the architects of Britain's lockdown policy still think they saved the day. In reality, it was their catastrophic mismanagement that has left the Tories in such a pickle.

An epidemiologist who called it right from the start, on Covid (over-hyped), lockdowns (useless, deadly) and vaccines (effectiveness overplayed, harms underplayed), Prof Eyal Shahar looks back at his articles since 2020.

The World Health Organisation is gearing up to persuade the world's governments to sign a new pandemic treaty that would allow the unelected body to seize power over nation states in future pandemics, warns Matt Ridley.

With the firing of Prof. Martin Kulldorff for having the temerity to be proven right in his scepticism of Government Covid measures, Harvard really shows it has lost its way, say Dr. Peter Gøtzsche and Janus Bang.