India’s Current ‘COVID Crisis’ in Context
The mainstream media’s reporting on the ‘COVID crisis’ in India has clearly been governed by a global approach to messaging that appears to aim at ramping up fear of ‘new...
March for Freedom, London 24th April 2021
Yesterday was the March for Freedom in central London, following on from the one last month in London and Manchester. As a trade unionist and socialist I have been on...
Book Review: The COVID Consensus- The New Politics of Global Inequality by Toby Green
Historian Toby Green’s new book ‘The COVID Consensus- The New Politics of Global Inequality’ [1] is a rigorously researched study of the development of the global lockdown consensus following the...
LLS supporter Steve Jack is standing for the Freedom Alliance
I’m delighted to be standing as the Freedom Alliance candidate in this important by-election, and to be in with a chance of becoming Hartlepool’s next MP. I currently live in...
Returning to the office: Legions of the vaxxed
I work for a medium sized company and have spent nearly all of the last six months working from home. This was a blessing in disguise because it provided me...
India is under another lockdown. Why?
Following some news articles announcing India had reached near herd immunity and widespread reports on the ground of services and businesses opening up [1], most of the country has once...
The Russian periphery of 100 million-plus people has suffered fewer state interventions than Sweden
Greetings to my fellow sceptic comrades! I come from an Eastern European country that was highly praised in summer 2020 for ‘defeating the coronavirus’. My country's success cost me six...
Real COVID death rate 0.15%
New study finds global infection fatality rate is 0.15% All systematic evaluations of seroprevalence data converge that SARS‐CoV‐2 infection is widely spread globally. Acknowledging residual uncertainties, the available evidence suggests...
Every Official UK Covid Death to be Investigated
Reproduced from https://www.covid19assembly.org/2021/03/dr-clare-craig-of-the-covid19-assembly-introduces-the-covid-deaths-audit/ Covid19 Assembly announces today that for the first time in the UK it is setting up a team which will audit all Covid deaths. Many concerns about...
The Swappies: a Corony Case Study
If there is any consistency on the activist revolutionary left in the UK about coronavirus it is in their massive overestimation of the risk posed by it, in tandem with a universal acceptance that the Tories were initially hell bent on a ‘herd immunity’ strategy.