In 1905, the Irish language activist Patrick Pearse, not yet a revolutionary, bought land in Connemara, in Ireland’s Irish-speaking far West, where he built a thatched cottage in traditional Irish style. Poor and remote, the wind-lashed bogs and rocky hillsides …
The flaws in Musk’s Mars mission
In his speech to Congress last month, President Donald Trump promised to “lead humanity into space and plant the American flag on the planet Mars and even far beyond”. His claim is not serious, as Trump is far too busy …
Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ will fail
President Trump has dubbed 2 April, when his new tariffs go into effect, “Liberation Day”. While many investors, financial analysts, and consumers are in panic mode, Trump’s pitch to the industrial working class remains blunt: over the last half century, …
England’s villages are no joke
In the latest edition of News & Views, the local pamphlet delivered to all houses in the little constellation of villages on the Lincolnshire-Nottinghamshire border where I am from, the editor praises the “snowdrops, daffodils and crocuses” which have sprung …
Germany isn’t ready to fight
“Germany is back,” Friedrich Merz victoriously declared, fresh off securing a historic deal to boost military spending. Once, such a statement might have sent shudders across Europe. Now, it brings cautious relief. With the postwar order in disarray, London, Paris …
USAID funded Brazil’s judiciary to target Jair Bolsonaro and his supporters
In recent years, USAID has funded the judiciary and media in foreign countries to target dissenters, including populist political figures such as Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro. In which countries was USAID funding “independent” […]
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Daily Mail Report: Here’s where the UK’s foreign aid is going
The mind-boggling magnitude of Britain’s ‘wasted’ foreign aid spending was laid bare in extraordinary detail in a dossier published by the Daily Mail yesterday. “Almost £14 billion of UK taxpayer cash will […]
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Infection by injection: 1875 postcard reveals smallpox vaccines caused smallpox
Dr. Tess Lawrie highlights a postcard from The Society for Suppressing Compulsory Vaccination, which some fortunate people in England received in 1875. It outlined four reasons not to vaccinate children against smallpox. […]
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Dear US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
Dear US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
by Tom Jefferson at Brownstone Institute
We have shown how you have consistently exaggerated the threat from influenza, which you inconsistently labelled “flu” or “influenza” as your needs changed to suit your …
Europe needs a battle plan
Europe is appalled. Donald Trump has delivered a wake-up call that it cannot ignore. We have long been in denial about the state of our relationship with America, knowing about our dependency, but have done nothing to correct it. This …
Why Wales is going to the dogs
Eight minutes ’til race one. The Valley Stadium is packed, a sense of nervous anticipation lingering in the air. It’s St David’s Day, and a huge crowd has flocked to Wales’s last greyhound track, in the small Valleys town of …
Will Australia fall for Trumpism?
Where America goes, the rest of the world follows. Donald Trump has inspired copycats on just about every continent, politicians who frame their reforms as a crusade against a liberal establishment neglecting the country’s left-behind. As Australia’s 3 May federal …
The creepiness of Amanda Knox
Amanda Knox starts off her new memoir, Free: My Search for Meaning, with a barbed anecdote: her mother told her once when she was a child that she would have “an extraordinary life”. And she has, though not in …
Who is preventing peace in Ukraine?
Odesa’s historic city centre remains under daily Russian bombardment. Each night, we wake to news of yet another drone or missile attack. But so far the air defences, like Ukraine, hold out. And the yellow and blue flags fly defiantly …
NIH has known for decades that flu vaccinations do not reduce deaths among the elderly but instead increases them
In 2006, CBS News reported that despite a significant increase in the percentage of seniors getting flu shots – from 15% to 65% over two decades – the death rate among the […]
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