Day: 8 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 the latest London Calling, the topics are Amanda Pritchard's misleading claim about Covid hospital admissions, Matt Hancock's widely ridiculed op ed in the Telegraph and James Delingpole's inability to answer emails.

We're publishing a second post on the Daily Sceptic – this one by a doctor – about the false claim by Amanda Pritchard that the no. of patients in hospital with Covid is 14 times greater than it was this time last year..

World Nuclear Association Senior Adviser Ian Hore-Lacy writes about the nonsense of blaming climate change for every unusual weather event, and asks what will happen to heavy industry as CO2 emissions are slashed.

China is experiencing its most severe outbreak since Wuhan, with the Government's extreme zero-Covid strategy seemingly doing little to curb the spread of the virus.

Amanda Pritchard, head of NHS England, claimed earlier today that the number of patients in English hospitals with COVID-19 is 14 times the number it was this time last year. Alarming if true, but it isn't. Not even close.

Although it was heralded as a dangerous move by media outlets and academics across the West, Sweden has emerged with a much lower death toll than many nations which enforced strict lockdown measures.

The former Health Secretary Matt Hancock has called for mandatory vaccination for NHS staff to be introduced before winter. Sajid Javid, instead, wants to wait until April.

Scottish nightclubs have discovered a loophole in the vaccine passport scheme whereby if they put chairs on the dance floor they are no longer classified as night clubs and can ignore the rules.

A recent viral tweet implies that if the UK had used contact tracing like Korea, we could have achieved the same outcomes. Yet we ploughed £37 billion into Test and Trace, and it still failed to halt the epidemic.