The Trouble With Matt Hancock
Is the trouble with British democracy that it produces politicians as dysfunctional as Matt Hancock, or that it gives politicians so much power in the first place?
Is the trouble with British democracy that it produces politicians as dysfunctional as Matt Hancock, or that it gives politicians so much power in the first place?
The Lockdown Files continue to bring out scandalous revelations about how pandemic management by WhatsApp was conducted. Here are some of the top stories from Wednesday.
The Scottish Government has misrepresented its own mask guidance in a 'fact check' by falsely denying it now recognises masks are harmful, when the guidance clearly states it is balancing mask harms against Covid harms.
The Scottish Government has finally accepted that mask-wearing is harmful following a campaign that led to the end of the mask recommendation in care homes.
More than 13,300 NHS hospital beds – one in seven – were filled with patients fit for discharge but unable to leave each day last month, triple the pre-pandemic figure, as excess non-Covid deaths continue to climb.
With prescriptions of antibiotics, painkillers, sedatives and opioids rising considerably during the Covid lockdowns, is overuse of medicine making us unwell, asks Dr Mark Shaw.
David Stacey recently found himself taking tea with sceptic-hero Anders Tegnell – the State Epidemiologist who steered Sweden away from the lockdown herd and showed the world another way.
Dr Gary Sidley sets out the case for why facemasks against COVID-19 are ineffective and harmful and mask mandates in healthcare settings must be dropped without delay.
Care home residents in Cornwall suffered appalling conditions during the pandemic amidst unmanageable pressures being placed on staff. Then along came the vaccine mandate and it got worse.
Preventing hospital patients and care home residents from seeing visitors, leaving them to die alone, is cruel, inhumane and unnecessary, both now and during the pandemic, doctors have told MPs.
