Day: 21 October 2021

A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus — and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.

An NHS surgeon who's contributed to the Daily Sceptic before has sent us an email offering us his perspective on the current NHS 'crisis'. One thing's for sure: it's not caused by a rising number of Covid patients.

The U.K. Statistics Authority says of official misrepresentation of data that "we’ve intervened more during the pandemic and made more comments than in the years before”. So why are the same mistakes made over and over?

A student at the University of Highlands and Islands is looking for mask refuseniks to participate in a research survey for his dissertation in psychology. Click here to find the link and complete the survey.

Laura Dodsworth has written a good piece in which she argues that the threat of lockdown "hangs like a Sword of Damocles", 'nudging' us into courses of action we wouldn't otherwise take.

We're publishing a guest post today by Daily Sceptic regular Dr. David McGrogan, an Associate Law Professor, about the Government's reliance on the Public Health Act 1984 to railroad through all the Covid restrictions.

The Chancellor is expected to announce an extension to the Government's Covid recovery loan scheme, which was set to end on December 31st, in his budget speech next week.