Five years on from COVID-19, the medical and public health establishments are still some way from acknowledging that the response was entirely disproportionate and inappropriate. Dr Alan Mordue refreshes our memories.
Matt Hancock has lost a High Court attempt to end a libel claim by former MP Andrew Bridgen against him over a tweet about the Covid vaccine after Hancock branded his fellow Tory "antisemitic".
It is a sad reflection on our age that the line 'lies, damned lies and statistics' was forgotten, says Prof James Alexander. Good political sense can never be grounded on statistics, but only on history and criticism.
Toby Young was given his peerage for the wrong reason, says Alexander Norman. He deserved it for creating Lockdown Sceptics in April 2020 – a lonely refuge from a world taking a new and cruel delight in preventing joy.
Canada's lockdown tyrant Trudeau has quit in failure, paving the way for Mark Carney to lead the Liberals into the election. Despite the Trump effect, Prof James Allan predicts a victory for Poilievre's Conservatives.
Dr Andrew Bamji began blogging about Covid in February 2020. Looking back he finds he was mostly right, unlike the 'experts' on SAGE who refused to listen to him. His Covid writings are now collected in a new book.
Consultants assessing Covid vaccine damage claims on behalf of the NHS have been paid millions more than the victims, it has emerged, after US-based Crawford and Company dismissed more than 98% of cases.
A study from Japan shows the link between mRNA vaccines and cancer. No wonder it keeps getting censored, says Rebekah Barnett – they really don't want you to see it.
Once a bastion of an evidence-based approach, the BMJ became biased towards lockdown and lost its way, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson. History will judge that the lack of debate in its pages was a serious error.
Back in March 2020 Toby was among a depressingly select group of journalists who opposed the lockdowns. The other side included his now Spectator Editor Michael Gove, who has let him write about it in this week's magazine.
