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In summary, Covid-19 posed very little risk to people of good health. The use of the tri-nutrient repurposed medicines approach can significantly reduce the incidence and severity of infections, ...

https://www.samizdata.net/2024/02/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-covid-all-australian-governments-failed-completely/

That is the detail of what Faustus does after selling his soul. Part of the moral of the play, I suppose, is the disparity between what the Doctor imagines he will do with the time given to him a...

https://www.samizdata.net/2024/02/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-faustus-in-westminster/

But the proposed UK law would go beyond just FaceTime and iMessage to encompass all Apple products. Earlier in January, civil liberties groups including Big Brother Watch, Liberty, Open Rights ...

https://www.samizdata.net/2024/01/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-uk-government-overreaching-again/

A blog for people with a critically rational individualist perspective

https://www.samizdata.net/2024/01/meme-of-the-month-gazalighting/

Ah! A testable proposition. So, currently the UK government takes 45% of everything, 45% of all economic effort and GDP. The US government – at all levels – consumes about 28% of GDP, the I...

https://www.samizdata.net/2024/01/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-economic-dynamism/

So, in spite of the Russia/Ukraine war, the growing conflict in the Middle East and the Chinese military threats to Taiwan, Ursula believes the most important issue facing the world is “disinfo...

https://www.samizdata.net/2024/01/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-bond-villain-know-what-their-priorities-are/

One can see why this idea has taken off again: it sits at the intersection of two of the most voguish ideologies of our time, namely, woke progressivism and anti-capitalism. It is a story about w...

https://www.samizdata.net/2024/01/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-do-empires-make-economic-sense/

I would like to think that the cozy post war socialist consensus is coming to a long overdue end. We defeated the divine right of kings, now we have to do the same to the divine right of bureaucr...

https://www.samizdata.net/2024/01/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-the-consensus-must-be-overturned/

Prices in markets are information – however much we might not like the lessons being delivered. – Tim Worstall

https://www.samizdata.net/2024/01/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-prices-in-markets-are-information/

Too often the culture war is misconceived as a conflict between Left and Right, with “woke” aligned with the former and “anti-woke” with the latter, but “wokeness” carries with it the...

https://www.samizdata.net/2024/01/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-woke-and-anti-woke/

So, there you have it. To recap — the new government installed its own political nominees by force, based upon a completely bogus legal justification, and the excuses it used were… “depolit...

https://www.samizdata.net/2024/01/58993/

It’s going to be an interesting election: the party that deserves to lose versus the party that doesn’t deserve to win. – Commenter Andy

https://www.samizdata.net/2024/01/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-a-perfect-summary-of-politics-today/