An official Bundestag report is about to be published concluding that lockdowns and other Covid containment measures in Germany did more harm than good. The pro-lockdown establishment is frantically trying to discredit it.
According to a new report from the Resolution Foundation, working from home has benefited the local economies of the most affluent parts of the country and harmed the most deprived.
Ethical scepticism refuses to let the perpetrator of a gross injustice off the hook and evade accountability just because the alternatives may be worse. Ethical sceptics should have no confidence in Boris Johnson.
The cost of living crisis and runaway inflation are a result of imposing ruinous lockdowns on society, experts have told MPs and Peers. Lockdowns must never be used again.
The pandemic saw crony capitalism at its worst as big companies enriched themselves at public expense. The more government is captured by big business, the more the rich profit, and the more problems we see.
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.
