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Lockdowns and vaccinations. What are the pro’s and con’s? Does anyone even know? Has anyone done any research? If they have, why haven’t we been told? If not, why are we being bossed around from waking till sleeping? It is the spectacular omission of cost/benefit analyses that is making the public so sceptical of every word that comes out of the mouth of a front bench minister or their advisors. At the moment, people who have been vaccinated receive a record card, and the imm

Labour under Sir Keir Starmer have repeatedly shown they are not just unfit for opposition, but are actually no opposition at all. In the latest vote against freedom, the new leader has said his party will abstain. Just a cluster of hard left MPs are expected to join the rebel Covid Recovery Group of Tory MPs in voting against the restrictions, which will now come into force tomorrow. In effect, Sir Keir is stating that his party does not have an opinion on what is about to b

At what stage does someone take the blame for the debacle that has been 2020? The unseemly scramble to ready the NHS for a respiratory disease that has been long forecast was unseemly at best, chaotic at worst. So why has Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health & Social Care since 2018 faced such little criticism? Apart from a brief spell working for his father’s software firm, his entire career has been in the murky world of politics. He has never known what it is like t

In Matt Hancock, Boris has found a true dictator of the very worst kind. When asked about the continuance of cancer treatment during a possible “second wave”, all people got was a veiled threat as he said “It is critical for everybody to understand that the best way to keep cancer services running is to suppress the disease; the more the disease is under control, the more we can both recover and continue with cancer treatments”. Cancer kills an average of 450 people every sin

If one looks beyond the main Covid-19 headlines and at stories of how it is affecting the general population, one can see all kinds of human tragedies unfold. Empathy and sympathy seem to have been two of the biggest casualties of the war on the virus. As the general panic continues and talk of a second lockdown gathers pace, isn’t it time we remembered we are, first and foremost, human? Humans, by and large, are not solitary creatures and function best when they have the sup

Guest piece from Tony Brown, former political advisor to the EFDD group in the European Parliament. Better than most, libertarians understand multiple objectives. If you are libertarian, you pretty much always have at least two objectives. The first is whatever you wish to achieve but the second is the extension of freedom and choice: liberty. This makes libertarians better equipped than most to understand that Covid involves – and must involve – non-Covid objectives and deci

Dan Liddicott Midlands Coordinator and Young Libertarians Coordinator Among all the drivel coming out of the Tory party conference there was at least one brief window of sanity. Ministry of Justice Under-Secretary of State, Dr. Philip Lee MP, admitted in a fringe event that our beloved NHS is actually funded as a Ponzi scheme as he questioned the morality of asking younger people today to keep paying for a service from which they may never benefit. The BBC reported that ‘the

Andrew Withers Party Chairman Yet again we are on the annual winter financial NHS crisis, and the solution always offered is the same, throw more money at the problem. The money being ‘Government’ money which of course is Taxpayers’ money – not magic money from the free money tree. Notwithstanding that the NHS wastes £2bn a year on Labour’s off balance sheet scam called PFI, and one health tourist alone cost the NHS in Manchester £500,000, waste is endemic in the NHS, as is