Day: 3 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.

The 16th of our round-ups of Covid vaccine safety reports and news from a group of medical doctors to inform the debate on vaccination.

A Swiss restaurant has been forcibly closed, and the owners arrested, for refusing to check customers for vaccine passports.

We're publishing guest post on the Daily Sceptic by journalist Chris Morrison looking at recent paper by the physicist Nicola Scafetta. Professor Scafetta's research suggests the main climate models aren't fit for purpose.

The Italian Higher Institute of Health had adjusted downwards its estimate of the number of people who've died from Covid, as opposed to with Covid, from over 130,000 to to under 4,000. Yes, you read that right.

Jonathan Van-Tam has declared that too many people think the pandemic is over, urging members of the public to wear masks and get their booster shots.

The U.S. has approved the use of the Pfizer jab for five to 11 year-olds.

Chris Whitty said the Great Barrington Declaration is "probably" unethical, presumably because it would have led to more deaths. But the UK's pandemic plan forecast 315,000 deaths, and Whitty never tried to change it.

The latest report from the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries includes the encouraging news that 2021 so far is an average year for deaths, but the worrying news of high mortality in the under-65s.