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Roger Watson

Covid vaccine

Yet Another Study that Exaggerates COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness

A recent study titled ‘Averted mortality by COVID-19 vaccination in Belgium between 2021 and 2023’ published in the journal Vaccine claims that 12,800 COVID-19 deaths among people aged 65 years and over were averted, representing a reduction in Covid mortality of 54%. Presumably the study was carried out in good faith and, while it does […]

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Greta Thunberg

Greta’s Gaza Getaway

Is it a fish? Is it a boat? No, it’s worse, it’s Greta on a boat! Our favourite climate activist turned pro-Palestinian agitator, Ms Greta ‘how dare you’ Thunberg, is on the way to the Gaza strip to defeat the Israeli Defence Forces singlehanded. Having realised that people were bored with her zero-sum game climate

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Pakistan flag

Diversity in Islamabad

The New Conservative, always quick off the blocks with the latest news, has a scoop. Let us be the first to announce the appointment of former Rotherham resident Percival Thistlewick as the new Mayor of Islamabad. The appointment has sparked controversy, as Thistlewick does not speak Urdu or any of the other languages used in

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SAS

Who Scares Wins 

I recall an SAS story, told to me by a Catholic priest following the First Gulf War, where the SAS played a crucial role in spotting targets for the RAF which still horrifies me. The story involved an SAS unit crawling through the Iraqi desert. Suddenly, they encounter some shepherds and are clearly spotted. The

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Library

Arrest Me Now

What the hell kind of a police force do we have that can make a comment, regarding the arrest of a pensioner over a social media post, that his bookshelves contained ‘very Brexity things’? As if the presence of the police in his house was not bad enough over a social media post, while he

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Nigel Farage

Reform Derangement Syndrome 

It’s Brexit all over again. Democracy does what democracy has a habit of doing: putting those who have received the most votes into seats and into power. But the quivering masses of the hyper-offended – the Liberals, Greens and assorted lefties – simply cannot accept that. Although I never watch them, I hear that the

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