News Round-Up
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.
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.
Covid infections are 36 times higher now than they were at the time of Prince Philip's funeral, when the Queen poignantly sat alone. The Queen is owed an apology.
The efforts of left-wing lockdown fanatics to smear lockdown sceptics as libertarians in the pay of the Koch brothers has backfired spectacularly, say Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff.
Professor Danny Altmann has admitted that the emergence of the highly immune-evasive Omicron variant came as a surprise to most experts in the field. Is that because it was made in a lab?
Millions of Britons could need Covid boosters every six months for the foreseeable future, Dr. Jenny Harries, Chief Executive of the UKHSA has said. Better be sure there are no adverse effects from repeated doses, then.
Politicians were pursuing their own interests when they decided to lock down. They didn’t want to be punished by the voters for ‘not acting’, and recognised that the costs of lockdown would come later.
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.
In this week's London Calling, the talking points are Will Smith's slap, Biden's unfitness for office and why cynics about the war in Ukraine are sceptical about Russian war crimes but not Ukrainian ones.
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