Day: 10 January 2022

In this week's London Calling, the topics are No-Vaxx Djokovic's triumph over the Oz immigration authorities, the NHS doctor who spoke truth to power, Gina Miller's new political party and Don't Look Up.

A petition signed by more than 1.2 million people, including doctors, nurses and vaccinated citizens, protesting against vaccine passports has been delivered to the National Assembly in France.

T-cells from common cold coronaviruses can provide protection against COVID-19, an Imperial College London study has found. But why has it taken 16 months for it to be published?

In what may be a sign of things to come, arch-lockdown fanatic Michael Gove has begun to pivot, contradicting Nadhim Zahawi by refusing to rule out the end of free LFTs and saying the pressure on the NHS is "abating".

We're publishing a long, thoughtful essay on the Daily Sceptic by an MIT-educated software developer who has decided, on balance, not to get vaccinated. He's reasonable and scientifically-literate, not an anti-vaxxer.

World No.1 tennis player Novak Djokovic is allowed to play in the Australian Open again after a judge quashed the decision to cancel his visa – but the Government issues a new threat to cancel the visa regardless.

There's little doubt that Omicron is causing milder disease in the U.K., as well as in South Africa, Denmark, and other places. But what's going on in Australia? ICU admissions have shot up as Omicron has taken hold.

How deadly is COVID-19? Last year Prof John Ioannidis published an analysis of antibody studies which concluded the IFR was around 0.15% globally. Now he's brought out an update – and the IFR has gone down.

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.