Day: 12 January 2022

"My son and I were welcomed to the first day of term with a screaming child pinned to the floor by a parent jamming a swab down their nose." A concerned parent on how small children have suffered under Covid rules.

Why have the risk estimates produced by the QCovid risk calculator changed recently, and why don't they take into account the protection provided by previous infection?

Boris Johnson has apologised for attending a social gathering at No 10 during the U.K.'s first lockdown, saying he believed implicitly it was a work event. Will it be enough to save him?

The Wellcome Trust has called for coronavirus to be “treated like the common cold”, as Israeli Prof Ehud Qimron slams the lockdown consensus as a failure based on myths and lies.

The BBC has published another of its 'reality checks', this time targeting Dr Steve James, who challenged Sajid Javid on the science behind the vaccine mandate. But it needs a fact check of its own.

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.