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7 Aug, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The only reason for a child to fear a disease milder (for children) than flu,that poses a risk for healthy children (1 in 2 million) less than lightning & for all children (1 in 0.5 m) less than drowning is fear-mongers like Ind. SAGE.

What a disgracefully exploitative video.
(And that’s the ‘risk’ of drowning including children who never go near a swimming pool or the sea. For context, a child has a 1/10,000 risk of mortality each year.)
Oh dear, looks like that didn’t go down so well…
This child is a campaign prop.

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21 Jul
My report, 'In Protection of Freedom of Speech' is now available here. The Executive Summary summarises the arguments. My thanks to @lozzafox & @thereclaimparty for commissioning this independent report. I am honoured that Ld Sumption wrote the Foreword.
reclaimparty.co.uk/wp-content/upl…
This Report makes six proposals:
(1) The word ‘abusive’ should be removed from section 5 and the words ‘insulting’ and ‘abusive’ should be removed from section 4A of the Public Order Act 1986:
...offences which criminalise speech or behaviour that is likely to or intended to cause harassment, alarm or distress. ‘Insulting’ was removed from section 5 but criminalises speech or behaviour that, while it might be unpleasant, should not be the concern of the state.
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18 Jul
I’m looking forward to the publication and launch on Tuesday of the report I have written, ‘In Protection of Freedom of Speech’, kindly commissioned by @LozzaFox with a Foreword by Lord Sumption.

thesun.co.uk/news/15620655/…
The report was commissioned by the @thereclaimparty but is independent. I currently have no party political affiliation.
The Report opposes the Online Safety Bill, a dangerous imposition on freedom of speech online which wld impose on social media companies a duty to remove content that cld cause ‘harm’ to an adult of ‘reasonable sensibilities’,irrespective of whether it is a crime or civil wrong
Read 9 tweets
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12 Jul
This is a deeply regressive measure that reverses the progression of international humanitarian law and the common law towards respect for bodily integrity; and the recognition that that respect requires the protection of the right to informed consent and the absence of coercion.
Compulsory vaccination is not unknown in this country - it was tried in the 19th century at a time when the poor were expected to know their place and that place was set by Poor Law Guardians. Aside from the effect on their bodily integrity and dignity, it was not a success.
But it was the 20th century that unveiled what medical professionals can do when unchecked by the protection of the dignity of the human person and his right to bodily integrity.
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6 Jul
@IainDale @lucyallan Yours are pig ignorant.

Care to identify a single country or state in which the introduction of a mask mandate has made any difference to the growth or decline or infections, hospitalisations or deaths?
@IainDale @lucyallan Because the studies about mask efficacy in clinical settings (indecisive but irrelevant to their use in the community) & the limited randomised controlled trials about their use in the community (which show they make no difference)are now diversions in the light of that evidence.
@IainDale @lucyallan If mask *mandates* requiring them to be worn in the community make any difference to infection, you would be able to identify when they were introduced.
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14 Jun
@SCynic1 @AdamWagner1 @DAaronovitch What factors haven’t I balanced?
In answering your question, take account of the following:
@SCynic1 @AdamWagner1 @DAaronovitch That, before the People’s Republic of China, no modern state has ever restricted the movements of all its citizens in response to a respiratory virus;
Or any state, for that matter;
@SCynic1 @AdamWagner1 @DAaronovitch That all state and WHO pandemic plans didn’t just recommend against restrictions on healthy people, they didn’t contemplate it while recommending against mass testing once a virus had become endemic ( apps.who.int/iris/bitstream…);
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14 Jun
Thanks, @Ed_Levey, for speaking out on this.
Elevating one issue above all others is at the core of this insanity. Respiratory pandemics fizzle out not by infections reducing to minimal levels but by natural (and now artificial) immunity & the evolution of less dangerous strains.
It is crazy to measure the progress of this one by ‘cases’ - and even crazier when they are not all cases in any meaningful way as they include asymptomatic infections.
And it is dangerous to link our ‘freedoms’ (or rather the licence given to us by the state) to the progress of one virus.
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