Day: 14 March 2022

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.

All UK Covid restrictions on foreign travel, including passenger locator forms and tests for the unvaccinated, are to be scrapped in time for families planning to go abroad for the Easter holidays.

A reader sent us the letter he received recently from the ONS, in which it states that "having had a COVID-19 infection before usually gives a stronger immune response than vaccination".

Before ‘The Science’ flipped in the spring of 2020, the consensus among Western epidemiologists was that community masking doesn’t work. A new Spanish study strongly supports the pre-Covid conventional wisdom.

A surge in infections was always to be "expected" following the end of restrictions in England, Sajid Javid has said. Yet infections were rising already, and rose faster in Scotland where restrictions remain.

The BBC’s long-serving Environment Analyst Roger Harrabin is due to retire in June. What must his thoughts be as he contemplates the possible destruction of his cherished Net Zero fantasy?