News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
The Covid Inquiry is right to name and shame Matt Hancock, says Professor Angus Dalgleish. The then-Health Secretary failed to provide the leadership we needed and abandoned the pandemic plan at the first opportunity.
Civil Service "groupthink", Brexit and planning for flu rather than a coronavirus led Britain to be unprepared for the pandemic, the Covid Inquiry has found.
Critics have slammed Keir Starmer for reneging on promises of change by appointing the Government’s former Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance as the new Minister of State for Science.
The real conspiracy of silence in this election is on the pandemic, says Liam Halligan in the Telegraph, slamming lockdowns as a major public health blunder that politicians are avoiding addressing.
Outrage is mounting over the Covid Inquiry's soaring £146 million price tag, which has seen more than £3 million allocated to emotional support services for witnesses.
Science found a "near non-existent" benefit of face masks, the Covid Inquiry Lead Counsel told Devi Sridhar last week. "Should this debate have been bypassed?" he asked her. "Exactly," she replied.
Lockdowns in Wales were "for the sake of it", a former Government Minister has told the Covid Inquiry. The country just wanted to be seen to be different to England.
The Covid Inquiry appears to be "fundamentally biased" and is failing to examine the costs of lockdown, 55 professors and academics have told its Chairman, Baroness Hallett.
Wales's First Minister Mark Drakeford has told the Covid Inquiry that local Covid lockdowns were a "failed experiment". If they were an experiment, where was the consent, ask Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
In a candid interview with the Telegraph, senior Covid advisor Sir John Edmunds expresses regret for not investing more into modelling the knock-on health effects and economic harm caused by lockdowns.
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