News Round-Up
22 April 2026
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A new government report has the Telegraph linking Covid and lockdowns to a surge in cold‑weather deaths, but Sallust isn't so sure. Rising energy bills, age and poverty seem far likelier culprits.
The cremation industry is facing millions in extra costs and doubled cremation times as Labour pushes eco coffins and no-gas ovens in pursuit of Ed Miliband's Net Zero dream.
It turns out the climate apocalypse is on hold, with 2025 logging the lowest six-month death toll from extreme weather on record – something Chris Morrison notes barely makes a ripple in climate-panic land.
The weight loss drug Mounjaro has been linked to the death of a 58 year-old NHS nurse after she suffered multiple organ failure – the first U.K. fatality attributed to the jab.
Reflecting on the deaths, on the same day, of Yahya Sinwar and Liam Payne, Prof James Alexander asks what gives a death dignity. Even the death of a despicable man like Sinwar can have dignity on its own terms, he argues.
Electric cars kill pedestrians at double the rate of petrol or diesel vehicles because they are quieter, a study in a BMJ journal has found.
In a new peer-reviewed study, Japanese researcher Dr. Yasusi Suzumura finds a massive safety signal for deaths associated with mRNA vaccines in the 10 days following inoculation.
John Kirby, spokesman for America's National Security Council, recently claimed that Russia has lost 20,000 men since December. Is this figure plausible? Based on the best available information, the answer is "yes".
The Western world has been caught in a spiral of self-harm for the past three years. This has happened because in our affluence we fear death and this makes us susceptible to public health tyranny, says Dr David Bell.
The vaccines weren't tested to stop transmission, Covid might have escaped from a lab, healthy people are at very low risk – hold the front page! The world is waking up to what sceptics knew all along.