After just the first lockdown, data suggest that average primary school pupils in England were 3.6 months behind in maths compared to previous years, rising to almost six months in Yorkshire and the Humber.
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.
Reports that a hybrid Covid variant of Omicron and Delta dubbed 'Deltacron' is spreading across the world are not yet a cause for concern, scientists have said.
According to a new study in the Lancet, Britain's Covid death toll was just above the world average, Sweden fared no worse than its Nordic neighbours and no correlation between stringency of restrictions and Covid deaths.
We're publishing a guest post on the Daily Sceptic by David Livermore reacting to the Terms of Reference for the inquiry into the COVID-19 pandemic. He thinks it's a curate's egg – good in part, not so good in others.
