Day: 21 February 2022

In this week's London Calling, the talking points are Justin Trudeau's political future, the influence of Klaus Schwab and whether we should cling on to nurse – Boris – for fear of something worse.

All remaining domestic Covid restrictions, including the requirement to isolate when testing positive for the virus, are to be removed on Thursday, February 24th, Boris Johnson has announced in the House of Commons.

A fourth vaccine dose should be offered to all adults over-75 and the most vulnerable over-12s this spring, vaccine advisory body and rolled out more widely in the autumn, the JCVI says.

New Zealand will lift COVID-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions after the Omicron peak has passed, Jacinda Ardern has said, as protesters occupying the parliament grounds again clashed with police.

Boris Johnson will address MPs about the lifting of restrictions at 4:30pm. However, there was a glitch this morning owing to a reported standoff between Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid over the end of free testing.

Models are neither science nor data but a set of assumptions that generate their own tautological conclusions. More than a war on the virus, lockdowns proved to be a war on the poor to protect the laptop class.

An Israeli study finds 25% of triple-jabbed and 20% of quadruple-jabbed healthcare workers were infected and infectious during the Omicron wave and concludes the vaccine programme has failed to stop the spread.

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.