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May 5, 2020
Sorry, Melanie, this is Goodbye. I finally Part Company with Melanie Phillips.
Long ago, I saw Melanie Phillips as an ally against many of the follies of the modern world. In the following years, we have grown apart especially over the Iraq war on which she seemed to me to have been gravely mistaken. I have had one or two other quarrels with her. But now it is the end.
Alas, though I may continue to agree with her on one or two specific subjects, I must declare a formal, irrevocable rift. In the greatest national controversy of our lives, she has taken the side of panic...
A note for Mr Baumgartner
Some people who followed the link to the Fraser Nelson article
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/sweden-tames-its-r-number-without-lockdown
on Sweden (including perhaps Mr 'Baumgartner', who accuses me of deliberate untruth ) may not have noticed or pursued or studied the links within it, such as these two :
Fraser Nelson described them thus: 'But Imperial also applied its UK assumptions to Sweden, warning that its rejection of lockdown was likely to leave the virus...
May 4, 2020
Interesting stuff about Sweden, Imperial College and Covid-19
An article by Fraser Nelson, editor of The Spectator, about Imperial College's modelling and Sweden
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/sweden-tames-its-r-number-without-lockdown
My Latest Conversation with Mike Graham of Talk Radio
Some readers may wish to listen to my latest conversation with Mike Graham of Talk Radio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baLxkQMVs0k&feature=youtu.be
Here I have provided a number of links which back up the statements which I made oin air
Getting the figures into proportion.
http://inproportion2.talkigy.com/
Do shutdowns have the claimed effect?
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.24.20078717v1
A good, solid general sceptical analysis of the matter
May 2, 2020
PETER HITCHENS: We���re destroying the nation���s wealth ��� and the health of millions
This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday column
Why do I bother? For six weeks now I have been saying that the Government���s policy on Covid-19 is a mistake. Most people do not agree with me, and many are angry with me for saying so. Others, bafflingly, don���t care about the greatest crisis I have seen in my lifetime, and regard the debate as a spectator sport.
Let me say it again: the coronavirus is not as dangerous as claimed. Other comparable epidemics have taken place with far less...
April 29, 2020
We Need an Inquiry into Whether the Virus Policy was Right and Justified - a new Youtube interview
...is here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyCY0Gtn7dE&lc=UgxDmdiG87LwQEV0uNZ4AaABAg
Here the same enterprising interviewer speaks to Lord (Jonathan) Sumption about the Virus panic:
April 27, 2020
April 25, 2020
Don���t be fooled by the sunshine ��� there are only dark days ahead
This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column
I have come to hate this beautiful weather, the loveliest spring for 50 years. I long to wake up to a filthy morning of dirty grey skies and miserable rain, like the one Tennyson described when he wrote ���ghastly, thro��� the drizzling rain, on the bald street, breaks the blank day���. This is because I think the British people are lost in an unreal, sunshiny dreamtime of delusion, seeing the current crisis as a sort of holiday after which they...
April 24, 2020
Now online - the Cambridge Union's debate on the shutdown of the country
Some readers may wish to watch this debate. My contribution begins at 37 minutes
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