Day: 31 January 2022

On this week's London Calling the topics are Partygate, the abandonment of the NHS vaccine mandate and whether the podcast would fall foul of Spotify's new anti-Covid 'misinformation' rules.

All 54 passengers on the flight were fully vaccinated, masked, tested negative three times, had been in quarantine for two weeks and were put in quarantine with more testing on arrival. Two thirds caught the virus.

Sue Gray's report says No10 probably broke its own (ludicrous) rules by having gatherings during lockdown but refrains from confirming this due to the police investigation (because in the 2020s parties are a crime).

We're publishing a guest post on the Daily Sceptic from our in-house doctor, time drawing on his long experience of working in NHS hospitals to explain why the NHS won't be resuming normal service for a good while yet.

Dr Simon M Fox, a Consultant in Infectious Diseases in an NHS Hospital, chose not to be vaccinated against Covid despite the threat to his career. Here's why.

Despite the very limited extent of the wrinklies' boycott of Spotify over Joe Rogan's vaccine 'misinformation', Rogan has apologised for "pissing off" Spotify – after Spotify imposed new warnings on pandemic content.

Two recent surveys show that U.S. Democrats just can't let Covid go. 65% support closing schools, and 59% support a policy of confining unvaccinated people in their homes “at all times, except for emergencies”.

Mandatory Covid vaccination for NHS and social care workers is to be scrapped after warnings of severe staff shortages if the plan went ahead. What a relief for those affected. But why did it take so long?

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.