The New Conservative

Roger Watson

Covid vaccine

If Those Who Pushed the Covid Vaccines Go to Trial, This Book Should be Exhibit A for the Prosecution

I was sceptical about COVID-19 from the start. I was in Wuhan when it started (something I only realised in retrospect) and one year into the ‘pandemic’ not a single colleague or friend there had contracted it. I also knew that people were not dropping dead in the streets. I was not in denial about

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people wearing multiple masks

We’ve All Got the Flu

They tried to terrify us with Covid-19 and, sad to report, it largely worked. Most of the population cowered under the cosh of the public health experts, stayed indoors, socially distanced, wore masks and got vaccinated. Some people remain convinced that Covid-19 was an existential threat and that, had it not been for the one-way

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Gun reform

Australia Does a Dunblane

There are few things worse in governments, corporations and societies than the mentality that ‘something must be done’. Mostly because nothing needs to be done or that which is done is entirely the wrong thing. Following the dreadful shooting incident in Dunblane, Scotland in 1996 – tennis star Andy Murray was one of the children

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Backyard comedy club

Comedy Like It Ought to Be

My jaws are still aching this morning following the Free Speech Union Comedy Benefit at the Backyard Comedy Club last night in Bethnal Green. This was comedy like it used to be: offensive, insightful and most importantly, hilarious. The Free Speech Union, the brainchild of Toby Young (now Viscount Young of Acton), was formed after

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Old man writing furiously

From the Man Cave XXIII

I am sitting in the man cave besieged by a legion of brass monkeys, wearing two face masks and praying that my GP will not have run out of flu jabs before I can get down there and roll my sleeves up. We are entering – indeed we may already be in the midst of

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Old man writing furiously

From the Man Cave XXII

Once again, the man cave is in Italy. I wanted to title this one in Italian, to show how cultured and cosmopolitan I am, but apparently, there is no direct equivalent of ‘man cave’ in Italian. The nearest I could get was Dall’uomo delle caverne, meaning ‘from the caveman’, which I take as a compliment.

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