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UK daily death toll at its lowest since the start of coronavirus lockdown
Britain’s daily death toll has fallen to its lowest level since the lockdown was imposed, with half of hospitals reporting no deaths from Covid-19 in the past 48 hours.Matt Hancock, the health
'Prof Lockdown' Neil Ferguson admits Sweden used same science as UK but has suppressed coronavirus without tough restrictions
Sweden has kept restaurants, bars and many schools open in a much softer approach to virus than other countries in Europe
Daniel Hannan
“A policy which is short of a full lockdown has got quite a long way to the same effect. That is something we are looking at very closely.”
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An interview with Daniel Hannan
SFL UK & Ireland had the pleasure of hosting Daniel Hannan, writer, journalist, President of the Initiative for Free Trade, and former MEP for South East Eng...
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Daniel Hannan
In Denmark, politicians seem to have pushed for a tougher lockdown than public health advisers wanted. My guess is that - contrary to widespread belief - it is a similar story everywhere. The political incentive in these situations is aways to overreact.
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The world panicked with ineffective lockdowns
On March 12, 1913, at about noon, the people of Columbus, Ohio, started running. No one could quite remember how it started. The writer James Thurber, then a senior at the local high school, recalled the moment some 20 years later:
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Daniel Hannan
How did a policy of general house arrest - a policy not previously considered in the contingency plans of any Western state - suddenly go global? For the same reason that the people of Columbus Ohio simultaneously started running in 1913.
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Coronavirus: Norway wonders if it should have been more like Sweden
Cost of lockdown sees prime minister raise questions about strategy
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Daniel Hannan
Norway’s PM is honest enough to admit that she closed schools in a panic, and that the measure made no appreciable difference to fighting the disease.
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Hit by a crisis like no other, the Eurocrats' one wish is to teach Brexit Britain a lesson
Stand back and look at how the EU is behaving
Daniel Hannan
The EU is locked into a stance designed, not to get the best for its 27 remaining members, but to overturn Brexit. Circumstances have changed, but its position has not. That is why we are sliding towards no deal.
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The lockdown’s founding myth | Christopher Snowdon | The Critic Magazine
Now in its tenth week, Britain’s lockdown has been around long enough for it to develop its own founding myth. The folklore goes something like this: Once upon a time there was a wicked and reckless…
Daniel Hannan
Superb journalism here from @cjsnowdon for @TheCriticMag: well-researched, measured, thoughtful - and hugely important in its conclusion.
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Debate: Iran Is Not Our Enemy (Online) - Intelligence Squared
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Daniel Hannan
Iran: friend or foe? Join me for the @intelligence2 debate tomorrow evening - Tuesday 2 June.
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: ConservativeHome Live - Matt Ridley in conversation with Mark Wallace. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join us for ConservativeHome's first ever live online event, an evening of discussion and debate with Matt Ridley - best-selling science writer, prominent Leave campaigner, Conservative peer, newspaper columnist and author of the new book How...
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Daniel Hannan
Our most original writer has written his most important book. Listen to @MattWRidley online on 10 June. Tickets available here. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist… pic.twitter.com/U0gZgj7pgZ
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Mark Zuckerberg says social networks should not be fact-checking political speech
Facebook CEO tells CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin, "Political speech is one of the most sensitive parts in a democracy, and people should be able to see what politicians say."
The City View: 'End the lockdown now and cut taxes to avoid a depression'
In this episode Christian is joined by lockdown sceptic Dan Hannan, former Tory MEP and now president of the Initiative for Free Trade.
Daniel Hannan
Ending the lockdown, cutting taxes, dealing with China, keeping the sealanes open. My wide-ranging podcast with @CityAM.
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Oxford University intends to teach face-to-face
The university's vice-chancellor says emerging from coronavirus "will be slow and protracted".
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Daniel Hannan
This is very good news. I can’t help noticing that, while Cambridge is cancelling lectures, Oxford is researching vaccines.
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Norway health chief: lockdown was not needed to tame Covid | The Spectator
Norway is assembling a picture of what happened before lockdown and its latest discovery is pretty significant. It is using observed data – hospital figures, infection numbers and so on – to construct a picture of what was happening in March. At the...
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Daniel Hannan
This, from @FraserNelson, is very important. Norway's epidemiologists are more or less admitting that their infection rate had peaked before lockdown and that they would have been better off taking Sweden's approach.
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Who was John Milton? with Dan Hannan
‘School of Thought’ is the IEA discussion series based on ‘101 Great Liberal Thinkers’ by Dr Eamonn Butler. Each week, Syed will discuss classical liberalism...
Ibn Khaldun
Ibn Khaldun, considered the greatest Arab historian, is also known as the father of modern social science and cultural history. Born in Tunis to a politically influential and devout family, his early education was marked by the high intellectual...
Daniel Hannan
“Privately owned businesses must over time surpass those owned by princes”. Ibn Khaldūn, whose writings anticipated a lot of modern market economics, was born #OTD 1332 - perhaps the last great figure of Islam’s open-minded mediaeval phase.
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Daniel Hannan: Where we’ve got to with the lockdown. We say we want it. Then we break it.
There has been a vivid daily demonstration of our collective double-standard in the mass of journalists swarming outside Cummings’s house.
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Daniel Hannan
When the state seeks to micromanage our behaviour, we are bound to end up with absurdities - such as being allowed to have your estate agent in the house but not your mother. We should instead say, "Here is the evidence we have, now use your common sense."
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Daniel Hannan
@DAaronovitch What that tells me is that it is impossible for the state to micromanage behaviour. It would be better simply to say “Here’s the situation, here are the risks, here is the best evidence we have. Now use your common sense.”
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Daniel Hannan
Thesis. A lot of people are telling pollsters that they want a strict lockdown while giving themselves a partial pass on following the rules.
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Clip from: Bart Gets an Elephant
Whoa!
This is the moment we've feared, people.
Many of you thought it would never happen,
but I insisted we spend two hours every morning training for it.
You all thought I was mad.
Many of you requested to be transferred to another peanut...
Their sons were best friends. In 1978 they were disappeared by the IRA. This is the remarkable story of how 16 years later two mothers found the courage to speak out
It was in the tiny living room of her immaculate west Belfast home that I first met her. A white-haired mother clutching an old black-and-white photograph of her beloved boy. It was his First Communion day and he was turned out in his best jacket...
Alastair Campbell blasts Boris Johnson over Dominic Cummings breaking lockdown
Former political aide Alastair Campbell has blasted Boris Johnson for failing to remove Dominic Cummings as his senior advisor, after Mr Cummings travelled o...