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Publisher of @Spectator, @UnHerd, @Apollo_magazine; Editor-in-Chief @UnHerd; CEO, OQS Media. freddie@oqs.media

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1Apr 17, '24Here is the full length video report into the mysterious 'Global Disinformation Index' and how it censors political speech across Europe and the US. Please share widely, more peopl218×8.5M7.8k3.9k3.1k
2Apr 1, '23When the White House announces that there is an “epidemic of violence against trans people” what does that even mean? It’s language used to signal virtue rather than describe anyth146×5.7M22k3.5k391
3Oct 4, '23Wowses. Ex Greek finance minister @yanisvaroufakis tells me Suella Braverman should be "expelled" from the UK for starting this "misanthropic, stupid debate" about immigration — th53.4×2.1M4.2k1.1k630
4Jun 7, '23In which Richard Dawkins - acknowledges that being religious is better for human flourishing - takes back his Covid-era vilification of vaccine refusers - condemns universities for32.6×1.3M1.7k272479
5Jul 5, '24Prof Sir John Curtice lays out some brutal facts to put this Labour landslide into perspective: — Labour’s vote share in England has *stayed the same* since the last election — Mos32.2×1.3M6.1k1.9k1k
6Sep 29, '23The UK Govt Health Security Agency quietly published its report this week into whether Covid lockdowns worked and concludes... wait for it... "There is a lack of strong evidence on22×861k4.3k1.7k572
7Apr 11, '23Nick Cave's early punk music energy was all about "fucking with people," he told me. Me: "How do you fuck with people in 2023?" Cave: "You'd go to church and be a conservative." 👇21.2×830k2.5k474224
8Mar 1, '23This exchange shows how close to a propaganda state we got during Covid. The media taking direct orders from their chums in government to stoke fear and “demand” for virus services20.8×815k5.3k2k312
9May 13, '24Wow. The Times of London devotes its lead editorial to the pernicious influence of the Global Disinformation Index, saying "it has helped to stymie valuable and independent-minded 20.8×814k3.6k1.1k434
10Jun 8, '23The "trans business" has become like a religion, @RichardDawkins tells me, with the change in gender akin to the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation: Full interview here:15.3×600k3.2k838490
11Jul 5, '24Votes for Labour in: 2017 (Jeremy Corbyn) — 12,877,918 2019 (Jeremy Corbyn) — 10,269,051 2024 (Keir Starmer) — 9,686,32914.5×566k3k941405
12Jan 2, '23How bad do the NHS disaster stories have to get for the conversation to move on from “it just needs more money” to “we have to rethink it from first principles”?13.9×545k3.2k41311
13Jun 5, '24Slightly stunned by this. A new UnHerd/Focaldata poll out today reveals that 54% of Britons aged 18-24 agree with the statement: "The state of Israel should not exist" 😶13.9×542k1.4k274182
14Aug 20, '23There's something very odd about changing speed limits to 20mph all over London (and Wales) at the same time as rolling out ULEZ in theory to reduce emissions. The evidence suggest13.4×525k3.3k1.1k230
15Feb 19, '25However sympathetic you are to the populist cause, however “realist” on Ukraine, it is impossible to defend the head of the world’s most powerful nation putting out reckless semi-l11.8×461k5.1k468233
16Aug 26, '23Beautiful walk around Stanford university campus with @DrJBhattacharya and John Ioannidis. Despite the intimidation campaigns of 2020 they are not bitter — they have chosen to stay11.1×433k3.4k52451
17Jul 20, '23The language in that Coutts memo is truly chilling. The words “Inclusivity” and “Purpose” now fulfil the same function that “Socialism” did for Soviet apparatchiks — lofty-sounding10.6×414k2.8k60967
18Jan 6, '2370% of Twitter staff; 18,000 at Amazon; 10% of Salesforce. @DavidSacks tells me the @elonmusk effect is cascading across Silicon Valley. Suddenly, your job is "no longer based on w10.3×404k2.6k315142
19Mar 7, '23I am Swedish, went to Sweden multiple times in 2020 and 2021 and I can tell you it was *not* in some kind of 'voluntary lockdown'. This is pure cope, designed to obscure the powerf10.1×397k3.2k552105
20Jan 29, '24Now might be a good time to repost my interview with Devi Sridhar in August 2020, in which she argues for 48 minutes in favour of Zero Covid. Her most bonkers suggestion (among man8.9×349k3k844243
21Oct 19, '24Latest YouGov data on who British *Conservative* voters would prefer to see win the US election: Harris - 55% Trump - 28% Don’t know - 18%8.8×343k1.4k18379
22Nov 29, '24For adults, I'm strongly pro free speech and against censorship. For under-16s, I'm in favour of a social media ban, if it can be practically implemented. This is not a contradicto8.7×342k1.4k10145
23Jun 13, '23Wow. That's just handy isn't it, from the most quoted advisor in the British media!8.3×326k2.9k52955
24Jul 18, '24I've just read the first formal report of the UK's Covid enquiry by Baroness Hallett. While she is meticulously careful to avoid arriving at any conclusions on important questions 8.2×321k1.9k497597
25Feb 5, '22Quite amazing how the Omicron wave surged and then turned around at almost the same time across so many countries — almost as if it paid no attention to their divergent policies...8.0×011k2.5k371
26Nov 13, '24Hey @elonmusk, congrats on new government job. Will you be formally recusing yourself from all decisions at @X? Otherwise it literally becomes a government mouthpiece, which is wha7.1×276k1.6k197113
27Sep 29, '22Suddenly the @Guardian is all over the lockdown harms stories. Where were you at the time? Your unthinking moralistic enforcement of lockdowns helped create the very problems that 6.0×08.3k2k100
29Mar 24, '23⁦@BBCNews⁩ decides to send a push notification to 1.5m Brits at 9pm on a Friday night to inform them that Gwyneth Paltrow’s skiing accident trial is… ongoing.5.4×210k1.3k6010
30Nov 4, '24On August 6th, at the height of the riots, BBC Verify used some of its 60+ staff to report “one of the most shocking” racist attacks. “An angry mob of white men surrounded and atta4.9×193k3.6k794194
31Sep 11, '23Seems very hard to argue with any of this — @soniasodha being brilliantly reasonable on the @BBC4.8×190k2.1k430186
32Jan 16, '22The best way for Boris to turn his polls around is to make a big ‘time of living in fear is over’ speech, immediately end remaining Covid restrictions, require every covid related 4.8×07.3k1.2k27
33Mar 5, '23It’s not the specific revelations of the #lockdownfiles so much as the *tone* that we should remember. Too much government power always ends up with pathetic little men getting off4.6×178k1.9k38962
34Sep 23, '21"Judge me in a year," he told me in summer 2020. One year on, Swedish Covid chief Anders Tegnell returned to @UnHerd to look back at lessons of the pandemic. He was modest and caut4.3×05.1k1.6k284
35May 21, '20WTAF. @YouTube has taken down our interview with @ProfKarolSikora - Professor of Medicine at @UniOfBuckingham, former advisor to WHO - presumably for sounding too optimistic about 4.2×05k1.7k57
36Jul 18, '23John Sopel and Emily Maitlis, fresh from attending George Osborne's wedding last weekend, are now co-hosting Tony Blair's policy summit today. Must be so liberating for them to hav4.2×163k1.8k35724
37Dec 12, '21Literally in the same speech from the PM: "It is now clear that two doses of the vaccine are simply not enough to give the level of protection we all need" Then: vaccine passports 4.2×05.8k1.3k75
38Jun 27, '23Can’t even watch the Matt Hancock Covid testimony because it makes me too angry. The question we should be asking is how such a dangerous and pathetic man got into such a position 3.8×150k3.2k58223
39Dec 2, '21This 26 year old Australian, identified as a 'contact' of a Covid case but never testing positive, was held at an internment camp outside Darwin without her consent for 14 days. Th3.7×04.1k1.6k153
40Mar 8, '24Andrew Sullivan on Joe Biden is quite something3.4×132k1.7k374124
41Sep 29, '23Blast from the past: July 2020. In retrospect, it's amazing how heretical and brave it seemed for Anders Tegnell simply to stick to normal principles of evidence-based policy. But 3.3×129k1.7k40264
42Aug 13, '24Within the past 24h: 1. Thierry Breton, EU Commissioner and chief regulator, sends a threatening letter to Elon Musk 2. Musk responds by telling him to “literally fuck your own fac3.3×127k1.8k32397
43Aug 17, '21What a calamity that he can say this and be entirely correct3.2×05.1k75878
44Feb 11, '22Latest from Neil Ferguson and Imperial estimates Omicron as intrinsically 70% less severe than Delta. Quite a difference from their 16th Dec report to SAGE: "We find no evidence of3.1×04.3k89966
45May 23, '23"BBC Verify" is being pushed very hard on the nightly news, Newsnight etc Given the appalling record of so-called fact-checkers over the past few years, the creation of an official2.9×112k1.5k24817
46Dec 3, '21Slightly depressed that this story is being covered by “right wing” channels all over the world but not a peep from BBC/Guardian/NYT et al. Where’s the outrage about the shredding 2.8×03.8k92970
47Nov 12, '22China announces change of Covid strategy: “Identify population base of the elderly, patients with underlying diseases, pregnant women, patients with chronic diseases and other grou2.7×03.8k750105
48Apr 7, '22Just met my first pub menu with calories and it’s a disaster. Campaign to reverse this nonsense begins immediately2.7×03.7k31814
49Nov 15, '21I’m in Vienna on day 1 of the world’s first ‘lockdown for the unvaccinated’ for a forthcoming #UnHerdTV special report. It’s eerie - and talking to people I can’t escape the feelin2.7×03.4k865118
50Aug 26, '21It seems like the longstanding question over naturally-acquired immunity versus immunity from vaccination might have been answered. If it checks out, it will have far-reaching poli2.7×02.6k1.1k254
52Nov 12, '21Confinement and house arrest for a whole minority of the Austrian population deemed unclean. This is terrifying.2.6×03.4k85829
53Oct 23, '19Ref ⁦@joswinson⁩ ‘white men’ comment, here’s a reminder of the crowd at last month’s Lib Dem party conference. Prize to anyone who spots a non white face!2.5×03k1k12
54Jun 5, '21But they obviously weren’t socially distanced like this throughout the summit - why is this kind of Covid theatre now considered normal?2.5×04k51314
55May 3, '22A major Danish study reports concerning differences in all-cause mortality between types of Covid vaccine — and barely anyone reports it 🤔 Analysis by @DrJBhattacharya and intervi2.3×02.1k1.1k303
56May 11, '22Russian ruble now *higher* against the dollar than before the war.2.3×03k67777
57Jan 24, '22Sorry but I can’t pretend to be outraged. Don’t care, can’t care. All it shows is how stupid the rules were all along. Meanwhile Russia is assembling tanks on Europe’s border and t2.3×03.4k48724
58Jan 31, '22Denmark, England, now Finland ends all Covid rules. Domino effect has begun. Likely order? Something like Norway, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands, Greece, Spain, France, Austria, Ital2.3×03k73355
59Jul 20, '23You hear that? That’s the sound of thousands of CEOs worldwide rapidly re-evaluating the risk-reward ratio of corporate woke activism. Quite a momentous 24h.2.2×86k2.1k28535
60Dec 11, '21The trouble we will face is that, if Omicron is mild but spreads very fast, then it will be all over the hospitals so hospitalisation and death numbers will look worse than they ar2.2×03.2k50039
61Jul 28, '21Prof Neil Ferguson tells Politico: “I’m quite happy to be wrong if it’s wrong in the right direction.” But why is making overly pessimistic forecasts an error in the right directio2.0×03k44733
62Oct 5, '20NEW Profs @SunetraGupta @MartinKulldorff and Jay Bhattacharya met over the weekend in the US to write a declaration calling for a different #Covid approach. They're in Washington D2.0×01.8k862152
63Jun 2, '21Some sobering statistics for those that say we are already basically back to normal: 🔻1 in 4 UK licensed premises (25,000) have not yet reopened as restrictions make them unviable2.0×02.4k86925
64Nov 30, '21The most depressing combination of words in the English language2.0×03.6k2954
65Nov 27, '21What percentage of Covid transmission happens in shops? And what percentage of that will be prevented by making cloth facemasks mandatory? We're surely down to a fraction of 1 per 1.9×03.1k42113
66Nov 19, '21Well that didn't last long. Cases actually started increasing *faster* after the lockdown for the unvaccinated, so Austria is now moving to universal lockdown and mandatory vaccina1.9×02.2k65847
67Dec 13, '21The "with" thing again 🤦‍♂️1.8×02.8k39114
68Dec 16, '20Whatever you think of the PM's Christmas advice, this front page is horrible.1.7×02.5k1496
69Apr 13, '21What's so depressing here is the sense of spin, nudging, communicating not straightforward facts but "messaging" to achieve an outcome. People are sick of it.1.7×02.4k37428
70Aug 17, '21The latest estimates of protection from infection from 2 vaccines (<50%) leave the case for domestic vaccine passports in tatters.1.6×01.7k71169
71Nov 12, '21As the Netherlands considers its first post-vaccine lockdown, I'm in the @telegraph trying to work out how the most nominally liberal governments became the most illiberal of the n1.5×02k49452
72Apr 17, '21Punchy language from 1200 Church of England and Catholic priests writing to govt against vaccine passports. They didn’t hold back!1.5×01.9k56529
73Sep 5, '21The Health Protection (Vaccination) regulations 2009 place a legal requirement on the Secretary of State for Health to accept the JCVI recommendations when it comes to national vac1.5×01.5k68361
74Oct 18, '22Suddenly there is wide open space for a new populist movement in the UK: - anti-globalist/technocrat - pro-freedom - culturally conservative - non free market-fundamentalist Neithe1.5×02k32826
75Sep 30, '22NEW 📽️ @DrJBhattacharya and other scientists are suing Anthony Fauci and the Biden admin for breach of 1st amendment rights over Covid era censorship. If successful, it would set 1.5×01.9k56852
76Aug 2, '20It’s genuinely frightening to me how lightly people seem to value their freedoms - readiness to give them up has become, incredibly, a sign of virtue1.4×01.9k4319
77Dec 11, '21Case numbers are *decreasing* in South Africa @sajidjavid @BorisJohnson. Feels like this might be worth looking into before you lurch the country into yet more restrictions1.4×02k4547
78Jan 7, '22"Covid measures have become theatrical rituals intended to convey seriousness, reassure the compliant that their sacrifices have not been in vain, and punish the noncompliant." Par1.3×01.8k48854
79Dec 20, '21So many young people I know have tested positive with Omicron, have their Xmas plans ruined and are stuck at home. Someone should do a club night for only pozzed people. Proof of p1.3×02.3k15212
80Oct 7, '20Ouch. From both Left and Right, it’s a far cry from March. Number Ten is making decisions based on opinion polls, but the thing about public opinion is *it changes*. Rather like th1.3×01.4k52721
81Feb 2, '22Announcement on repeat at Victoria Station: “Please use hand sanitizer when entering and leaving the station. The little things we do help protect the little things we love.” Pleas1.3×02.3k1884
82Oct 14, '22Hunt. The same Hunt who approvingly quoted China sealing in its citizens in their homes during lockdown. Beneath the genial centrist exterior there's a hard-edged technocrat with a1.3×01.9k3948
83May 14, '21This is how tired parents talk to naughty five year olds, not normally how presidents talk to voters1.2×02k26215
84Jan 12, '22*NEW INTERVIEW* Dr Steve James, who challenged Sajid Javid over vax mandates, tells me - why he hasn't got the vaccine - why is prepared to lose his job over it - why 10% of NHS st1.2×01.5k46179
85Jan 19, '22✔️ No more facemasks ✔️ No more work from home guidance ✔️ No more Covid passes It’s not everything, but England is saying farewell to Covid life ahead of most of the rest of the w1.2×02k24212
86Jan 1, '21Did the BBC, CBS etc go live to Wuhan at any previous new year? No. Now the Chinese govt arranges a lovely (somewhat obnoxious) PR display and all the Western news networks obedien1.2×01.7k28732
87Mar 13, '21This is horrific. Hopefully will help people see that the currently fashionable authoritarianism takes us to a dark place1.2×01.5k41914
88Oct 31, '20"All a lockdown does is reduce infection levels for the period of time it's in force," Neil Ferguson tells the BBC. "Once you release the lockdown, infection levels start going up 1.2×01.4k28929
89Feb 7, '21No wonder people are terrified about this thing never being allowed to end when every day there are stories like this in the media - it’s not hysteria, it’s an entirely rational an1.1×01.7k30415
90May 9, '22Can we please have a universal amnesty on absurd breaches of absurd Covid rules, ideally alongside a promise never to introduce them again? Then can we please start talking about m1.1×01.9k2137
91Jan 18, '22Any red wall Tory MP who thinks Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss will help them win their next election is having a laugh.1.1×01.9k2184
92May 21, '20Ta da! @YouTube reinstates our @ProfKarolSikora interview - no doubt persuaded by the huge negative attention they were getting on here, so thanks Twitterers ✌🏻 For people without1.1×01.8k2647
93Jun 6, '20One thing’s for sure: after today’s protests if there *isnt* a dramatic spike in Covid cases in 1-3 weeks it will be tricky to argue that outside social distancing is even worth ta1.1×01.6k30411
94May 26, '21The central fantasy in the Cummings testimony is that he and a couple of brainiacs invented lockdown late in the night in Number Ten, bravely going against the consensus. In realit1.0×01.7k22710
95Dec 9, '21Plan B is bad policy, bad politics, and should be resisted or ignored. Me in @UnHerd1.0×01.5k28319
96Sep 6, '22You have to wonder whether, if Boris had followed his original instincts and taken a braver course on Covid more similar to Sweden, he would still be prime minister today.1.0×01.5k919
97Oct 23, '21Why have you chosen this path for us, @BorisJohnson?0.9×01.5k18937
99Apr 5, '21Asked about the aviation industry, the prime minister says: "The best thing for them is to get flying — and that's absolutely critical". Great idea! Why didn't they think of that?0.8×01.5k1253

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