Is COVID a once-in-a-century apocalypse that justifies shutting down the economy? UK statistics show that over the past 26 years, 2019-2020 is merely the eighth-worst season for flu deaths. Laura Dodsworth, writing in The Critic, argues imprecise metrics have led to grossly exaggerated fears and destructive policies. Ultimately we need a better way of counting the dead.
Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.
