Two senior BBC Newsnight journalists have been accused of “killing children” after they reported on an NHS commissioned report which found the evidence for using puberty blockers on children was of low quality and unreliable. https://twitter.com/TransportBeyond/status/1378326217565339649 Last week the BBC published an article, written by health correspondent Deborah Cohen and senior reporter Hannah Barnes, which […]
One thing that has genuinely been remarkable to witness over the course of Ireland’s covid journey is how the comparisons between Ireland and the UK in the Irish media have…… sort of disappeared? You will recall, of course, that in the early days of the pandemic, Irish journalists and political types could not stop comparing […]
On March 10th, four weeks ago tomorrow, the State of Texas in the United States ended all Coronavirus lockdown restrictions. By all, we mean just that: All. No masks. No restrictions on travel. No limits on opening businesses or gathering indoors. No laws against religious worship, or going to the beach. All restrictions in Texas […]
“Everyone will be able to take a free rapid coronavirus test twice a week from the 9th April.”
A new review of the evidence behind administering puberty blockers to children has said that the evidence available regarding “the clinical effectiveness, safety and cost-effectiveness” of administering puberty blockers to children, and adolescents aged 18 years or younger, is “of very low certainty.” All the studies considered by the review were deemed to “lack reasonable […]
The mayor of the City of Oakland in California has come under fire for excluding poor white families from a $500 monthly cheque support scheme. White families are explicitly excluded from the race-based program which is funded by wealthy private donors, despite the fact that an estimated 10,000 of the city’s population are white residents living in poverty, with yearly earnings of […]
A Brussels court has ruled that “all coronavirus measures” imposed by the Belgian state must be lifted within 30 days, because the legal basis on which they have been made is insufficient. The ruling came Wednesday in a lawsuit brought by The League for Human Rights who argued that the state’s use of Ministerial Decrees […]
“For a range of outcomes, white working class children trail behind their peers in almost all ethnic minority groups, although the extent of these disparities vary by area.”
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, and Lega leader Matteo Salvini are set to have a series of talks in Hungary’s capital of Budapest, with the goal of forming a conservative political alliance. Speaking to the press in Rome, Salvini stated that the main purpose of the discussions would be to […]
Sweden, which drew significant criticism last year for refusing to lockdown its economy to prevent the spread of covid-19, saw a smaller increase in its death rate than most of Europe, according to official figures. According to Eurostat, the EU’s official statistics organisation, no-lockdown Sweden had 7.7% more deaths in 2020 than they would have […]
JAMA Internal Medicine hosted a fiery debate about Dutch euthanasia this week. Geriatrician Diane Meier, of the Icahn School of Medicine, New York, responded feistily to critics of an editorial which she had written in December, headlined “The Treatment of Patients With Unbearable Suffering—The Slippery Slope Is Real”. Two teams of Dutch physicians responded with reassurances that “all […]
Islamist militants have attacked a convoy seeking to bring foreign workers to safety following an attack on a town in northern Mozambique. Hundreds of militants stormed the town of Palma on Wednesday in a surprise attack, and laid siege to a hotel where foreign workers and visitors were hiding after attacking shops, banks and a […]