NHS waiting lists will not start to fall for two years, Sajid Javid has said, with more than 300,000 people facing waits of over a year for treatment, compared with 1,600 before the pandemic – a nearly 200-fold rise.
Shortly prior to the pandemic, Patrick Vallance showed Boris Johnson a slide show that used alarmist modelling to convince him of a 'climate emergency' and the need for drastic action. Sound familiar?
Deaths at the end of January were 9.3% below average. Why is the Government not joining countries like Denmark in reclassifying COVID-19, repealing pandemic laws and lifting the state of emergency?
Truckers in Canada's Freedom Convoy protest against vaccine mandates and other Covid restrictions have responded to Government smears of violence, racism and links to far-right groups.
As the energy crisis continues to bite, the Government gives the green light to six new oil and gas fields – but in a sign of things to come, the National Grid begins to experiment with rationing household power.
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 topics under discussion in this week's London Calling podcast are the Freedom Convoy, Jimmy Carr and a review of the podcast published in the progressive online magazine Left Food Forward.
