News Round-Up
10 August 2025
by Will Jones
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Education Secretary Gavin Williamson faces a legal challenge over the wearing of face masks in schools as he is told that official guidance will have "devastating” effects for deaf children.
Mass testing in schools as children returned this week is resulting in hundreds of positives – but viral prevalence is now so low that the large majority of them are wrong and result in children and their contacts isolating needlessly.
In an original essay for Lockdown Sceptics, Dr James Moreton Wakeley, a former parliamentary researcher, says the Government's response to lockdown is an indictment of Britain's political class.
Robin Tilbrook, the solicitor leading one of the legal challenges of the Government's Lockdown Regulations, has written a guest post for Lockdown Sceptics updating us on this particular challenge. He now has a court date!
New data establishes the relationship between the strictness of lockdowns and the level of economic harm. Will this lead to a more frank discussion on the trade-offs of having one of the strictest lockdowns in the OECD?
A Government fund established to support the arts through lockdowns has handed over little more than half of the money it has allocated. Why not just scrap the fund altogether and let the industry re-open?
Italy is set to impose another national lockdown over the Easter weekend. From April 3rd to April 5th, people will only be allowed to leave their homes for work, health or emergency reasons.
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about the virus in the past 24 hours – not just in Britain, but around the world.
A new paper in Nature looks at whether people staying at home more reduces Covid mortality and finds it does not. This backs up many other studies. So why don't lockdowns work?
Just 10% of Manhattan’s one million office workers had returned to the workplace by early March. In the long term, some employers expect 56% of their office staff to continue working remotely at least part of the time.
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