It's not just SAGE member and renowned Communist Susan Michie who believes some lockdown measures should stay forever. Polling suggests that an alarmingly high percentage of Brits support permanent mask and curfew rules.
Toby and Will will be joining experts from HART and others including Professor Karol Sikora and Dr Clare Craig at the Question Everything lockdown summit in London on Saturday July 17th. Register now.
Dr Tess Lawrie and Dr Edmund Fordham respond to an abysmal BBC programme which claimed to debunk a landmark study showing the efficacy of Ivermectin in treating Covid, but failed to contact any of the authors.
Lockdown has hit the already-dwindling teaching of languages, with a report by the British Council showing that more than half of primary school pupils did not do any language learning during the first national lockdown.
There's a great letter in the Telegraph today asking where reporters find Brits who want to remain in lockdown. These people may be happy to merely "exist", but "some of us want to live"!
Vaccination rates have fallen due to higher hesitancy rates among younger people – a problem which Boris Johnson hopes to resolve by offering incentives that widen the gap between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated.
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.
