Matt Hancock has resigned as Health Secretary so as to not "distract attention from the single-minded focus that is leading us out of this crisis". Former Chancellor Sajid Javid has been appointed as his replacement.
We're publishing an original article on Lockdown Sceptics today setting out the case for the defence of the Prime Minister. This one is bound to get a lot of comments!
The Prime Minister has said there may be a "rough winter" ahead. But since by the Government's own admission lockdowns appear to be the cause of the pressures on the NHS, the cycle of lockdowns will never end.
What justifies a lockdown? That's the question which, 16 months after the policy was introduced as a draconian tool of disease management, we still don't have a clear answer to.
Following further pressure from SAGE on delaying Britain's unlock, the Prime Minister has said that Number 10 may have to "wait" for more data before pushing ahead with ending the lockdown.
The claim, repeated by Dominic Cummings to MPs yesterday, that without a lockdown in March 2020 "the NHS is going to be smashed in weeks" is demonstrably false. Infections were declining even as the words were spoken.
Judging from the bombs Dominic Cummings is going to drop – and which he's leaked to the Daily Mail – Boris is a 64 carat lockdown sceptic. If only he'd stuck to his guns.
Today we're publishing an excerpt from Laura Dodsworth's new book, A State of Fear: how the UK government weaponised fear during the COVID-19 pandemic. In it, Laura asks: Why was Boris's March 23rd 20202 speech so odd?
We're publishing an original essay today about the decline of Britain into an authoritarian, one-party state by Dr. James Alexander, an Assistant Prof in the Department of Political Science at Bilkent University in Turkey.
Boris Johnson confirmed today that "nothing" is ruled out in responding to the Indian variant including new lockdowns. But does the data show that the variant is anything for us to worry about?
