by Will Jones, Daily Sceptic:

The World Health Organisation is gearing up to persuade the world’s governments to sign a new pandemic treaty in May that would allow the unelected body to seize power over nation states in future pandemics, warns Matt Ridley in the Mail. Here’s an excerpt.

Though called an ‘accord’ so as not to frighten democrats who still like that old-fashioned thing called accountability, it is a significant power grab by an unelected body that seems determined now to set down rules for how countries should react to future pandemics. Never waste a good crisis, as the saying goes.