88% of English parents would "definitely" or "probably" allow their children to get vaccinated against Covid if offered, according to a new survey. More than 30% said they were "unsure but probably in favour".
Dr Mike Tildesly, a SAGE modeller, has confessed to UnHerd's Freddie Sayers that he and his fellow court astrologers were too pessimistic about the impact of unlocking on June 21st and we should unlock in full on July 19th
New research in JAMA has found that wearing a face mask causes children to inhale dangerous levels of carbon dioxide that becomes trapped behind the mask – more than six times the safe limit.
The Italian Embassy in London has told England fans that they won't be let into Rome's Stadio Olimpico to see the quarter-final match against Ukraine if they only recently arrived in Italy – even if they have a ticket.
The Government says that Brits travelling to Spain cannot use negative results from relatively cheap and speedy antigen tests to gain entry – but the Spanish health authorities say that they can. So why the confusion?
We're publishing an original article to Lockdown Sceptics today by Dr Sinéad Murphy, a Research Associate in Philosophy at Newcastle University, about the descent into unreason prompted by an over-reliance on scientific advice.
Lockdown has spelt the end for Gap's time on the British high street, with the clothing retailer announcing the closure of all its 81 stores in the U.K. and Ireland due to "market dynamics". Over 1,000 jobs will be lost.
by Sinéad Murphy Hans-Georg Gadamer In another instalment of the Covid assault on the vulnerable, my little autistic boy has been sent home from school, to compound his already profound remove from social life by going into ‘isolation’ once again. To have asked for details as to why this decision was made would have been to dignify it with the appearance of reason, but, given that the corridors of school chat are not resounding with news of the serious illness of a teacher or a child, it is sure to have been in response to another positive result from the lateral flow test, the Covid gift that keeps on giving – it is reported that, on June 24th, 5% of English schoolchildren were not in class because of it. Joseph, who has an ‘Education, Health and Care Plan’ that legally obliges the city’s council to provide for his needs until he reaches the age of 25, has hardly been at school since the end of March 2020, on account of combinations and permutations of distancing, masking, and quarantining. And now he is at home again. If Covid does not strike again, by the time he is allowed to return to school Joseph will have nine days left before the summer holidays begin. That is what a council’s legal obligation to ...
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.
Lockdown sceptics are criticised for denying that reducing contact between people reduces transmission. However, this doesn't allow for the fact that reducing exposure does not greatly reduce infection risk.
