Nick Rendell

The data from the first wave in spring 2020 show a considerable number of deaths not linked to Covid – a sign that the pandemic response was killing people, says Nick Rendell.

Jonathan Sumption was very sound on the issue of lockdowns, but he is wrong about the cause of excess deaths in 2022, writes Nick Rendell.

Sweden's Covid approach caused widespread outrage amongst mainstream commentators. Yet as the data continues to vindicate them, the outrage seems to have quietly died down, writes Nick Rendell.

With 15m views and counting, Aseem Malhotra's BBC appearance is set to be one of the most viewed BBC clips of the year. Does it herald a change in approach from the broadcaster, or did someone just not do their homework?

Nick Rendell looks past the lurid predictions of models at the actual Covid stats in China and asks if the Chinese people will start to question why they were locked in their houses for so long.

The vaccines weren't tested to stop transmission, Covid might have escaped from a lab, healthy people are at very low risk – hold the front page! The world is waking up to what sceptics knew all along.

It's hard to make sense of a policy that spends billions on lockdowns to 'save lives' while also assisting many of the same people to commit suicide.

Initially we were told that we would only vaccinate the vulnerable. We then proceeded to vaccinate everyone. Now we’re back to only vaccinating the over-50s, and only a minority of 50-59 year-olds are taking it up.

A recent poll found far more people blame the war in Ukraine for the cost of living crisis than lockdown. But the data are clear: inflation started as lockdown ended and no impact from the start of the war can be seen.

Nick Rendell senses a turning of the tide in people’s perception of the vaccines and the pandemic in general, and suggests some ways to broach the topic of vaccines without imbuing unproductive alarm.

Those demonising the unvaccinated need to look in the mirror – many of them are overweight, and that's much more likely to put you in hospital for Covid or something else than declining the vaccine.

One of the many charges levelled at Brazil's President Bolsonaro is that his sceptical handling of the pandemic was "disastrous". A comparison with other countries, however, quickly shows that to be nonsense.