The use of behavioural psychology in influencing public behaviour during the pandemic – a.k.a. Project Fear – must be part of the U.K. COVID-19 Inquiry, say 42% of the public, according to a new poll.
In this week's London Calling, the topics are the weird karaoke cult among Tory politicians and their staff, the terrible timing of the Just Stop Oil protestors and Elon Musk's welcome bid to take over Twitter.
Masking, green passes, closures, and Christian Drosten too – all of them were part of the same system of social, cultural and intellectual strangulation from which Germans have now been released.
There are clear reasons for the UK, which produces just 1% of global CO2 emissions, to pedal slowly to Net Zero. But with most scientists supporting AGW it is not realistic to expect governments to abandon it altogether.
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.
