News Round-Up
12 July 2025
by Toby Young
Emergency Exit at English Heritage
12 July 2025
by Mike Wells
The latest UKHSA data show that vaccine effectiveness continues to fall, with the triple vaccinated now up to three times more likely to be infected than the unvaccinated.
More 'experts' have weighed in, claiming the decision to phase out all Covid restrictions is "premature" and "not based on current evidence". Meanwhile, infections, hospitalisations and deaths continue to plummet.
We are now perhaps emerging blinking into a life without Covid rules and yet the masks and their wearers are still everywhere. The natural world is unchanged, but the human world is still dystopian.
Britain's Omicron wave is fizzling out ahead of the planned ending of the final Covid rules next week, according to official data which show the outbreak is shrinking in terms of infections, hospitalisations and deaths.
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.
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