Month: November 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.

In this week's London Calling, the topics under discussion are shooting, hunting, the moronic variant, David Icke, the new Beatles movie and Belfast, which is howlingly bad.

From January, the Greek Government will levy a monthly recurring fine of €100 on any individual aged 60 years-old and over who remains unvaccinated.

We're publishing a guest post by journalist Chris Morrison about one of the great global warming myths – that coral around the world is rapidly disappearing thanks to global warming. In fact, it's in robust health.

Former Google software engineer and Swiss resident Mike Hearn explains why Switzerland voted to retain vaccine passports in the recent referendum.

A German euthanasia group has said that it will only provide assisted suicide services to the vaccinated.

In a fascinating new report, Philippe Lemoine argues that models have done so badly because they ignored population structure. His analysis suggests that the 'R number' might be meaningless at the aggregate level.

Dr. Jenny Harries, the Head of NHS Test and Trace, has said that members of the public should stop socialising in order to restrict the transmission of the Omicron variant.

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.

"The ONS survey results on prevalence shows that the Scottish and English approach to masking although formally different since July has made no meaningful difference to Delta" – Prof Jim Naismith