News Round-Up
7 July 2025
The Crown Prosecution Service has admitted – in response to a Freedom of Information request – that "all offences charged under the Coronavirus Act were incorrectly charged".
Boris hailed what he called a "very considerable step on the road back to normality" at a Downing Street press briefing this evening, outlining what he's graciously going to "allow" us to do from May 17th.
Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister has branded Monday a "day of freedom" following the partial easing of lockdown restrictions. But many businesses – hotels, pubs and restaurants included – will remain closed until June.
Health Minister Nadine Dorries says she opposes the idea of care home staff being forced to take Covid vaccines.
The anti-lockdown group Back to Normal, which campaigns by delivering postcards door to door by hand, has produced a new postcard promoting the benefits of ivermectin.
Mark Harper and Steve Baker – the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Covid Recovery Group – have come out swinging today, demanding the Government end all social distancing restrictions on June 21st.
A Lockdown Sceptics readers spotted a good comment on a neighbourhood forum about a snitch who called the police on the family opposite because they were breaking the Covid rules.
I've published some responses to my slightly gloomy piece for Lockdown Sceptics on why anti-lockdown candidates did so badly last Thursday. Some of them are much more upbeat.
The four U.K. Chief Medical Officers have agreed that the Covid alert level should be lowered from level four to level three, meaning there should be a "gradual relaxing of restrictions and social distancing measures".
It was only on April 30th this year that the WHO finally updated its website to indicate that COVID can be transmitted via airborne particles. Had this happened sooner, our response might have looked rather different.
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