Day: 8 September 2022

The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon. The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.

The introduction of VAR technology into football has managed to make the original problem – pundits and managers criticising referees’ ‘wrong’ decisions – even worse, while also generating fresh problems of its own.

As it becomes increasingly obvious the lockdown policy was a colossal error, those responsible are reacting in two ways: claiming they always knew it was a mistake or doubling down.

The coral reef global warming scare has suffered a mortal blow after a 10-year study of a reef has shown that bleaching is caused by natural changes in water temperature, not human activity, and the coral quickly recovers.

As excess non-Covid deaths hit 16,600 in 18 weeks, investigators have started to probe the causes. The main suspects are the vaccines, known to cause heart injury, and the virus itself. Which is the primary culprit?

Yours truly is the guest on this week’s Planet Normal, the weekly podcast by Liam Halligan and Allison Pearson that has done almost as much as the Daily Sceptic to keep people sane over the past two-and-a-half years.

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.