The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The Narrative in Retreat BY   RAMESH THAKUR   The  Lockdown Files  have dished up a curious exchange among Britain’s top policy advisers in early 2020. On February 29th, responding to a WhatsApp message from Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Chief Adviser Dominic Cummings that Israeli scientists were just weeks away from developing a Covid vaccine and if this was credible, Chief Scientist Sir Patrick Vallance replied “Short answer is no”. Chief Medical Officer  Chris Whitty  explained: “For a disease with a low (for the sake of argument 1%) mortality a vaccine has to be very safe so the safety studies can’t be shortcut. So important for the long run.” England’s highest  mortality rate  was in April 2020 at 0.6%, falling to 0.55% in January 2021 and 0.04% by January 2023. Based on the original Phase 3 trial data,  Bart Classen  showed as early as August 2021: “Results prove that none of the vaccines provide a health benefit and all pi...

  The Great Food Reset has begun We all lose from the global war on farmers BY  THOMAS FAZI France is in flames. Israel is erupting. America is facing a second January 6. In the Netherlands, however, the political establishment is reeling from an entirely different type of protest — one that, perhaps more than any other raging today, threatens to destabilise the global order. The victory of the Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB) in the recent provincial elections represents an extraordinary result for an anti-establishment party that was formed just over three years ago. But then again, these are not ordinary times. The BBB grew out of the mass demonstrations against the Dutch government’s proposal to cut nitrogen emissions by 50% in the country’s farming sector by 2030 — a target designed to comply with the European Union’s emission-reduction rules. While large farming companies have the means to meet these goals — by using less nitrogen fertiliser and reducing the number of their...