In Spiked, Fraser Myers covers the “trial” of former UK prime minister Boris Johnson. The venue is supposed to be an unbiased evaluation of the country’s handling of Covid-19, to better prepare for the next pandemic. Myers shows how the process is instead attempting to solidify a pro-lockdown narrative by twisting statistics and ignoring key facts such as non-lockdown Sweden’s low rate of excess deaths.

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.


