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.
In January 2021, Leeds student Xen Watts organised a lockdown snowball fight and was hit with a £10k fine that ruined his life. Half of the 120,000 Covid fines went to 18-24 year-olds. We owe young people a massive apology.
In America, Prof Jay Bhattacharya, the lockdown sceptic once derided by NIH chief Francis Collins as a "fringe epidemiologist", is about to take over as NIH head in truly sweet karma. But the UK is still mired in denial.
Lockdowns and school closures have triggered a devastating surge in child suicides and self-harm, with hospital admissions soaring and mental health disorders skyrocketing.
Nearly a quarter of all new cancer cases – one million globally – may have been missed during the Covid pandemic, a World Health Organisation study has found.
It's tremendous to see 2025 kicking off with more from the Times about the devastating effect of lockdowns on children. But we'll be waiting a long time for genuine mea culpas, says Joanna Gray, for one very simple reason.
The best US Government report yet on the Covid debacle delivers a damning indictment of the pandemic response but still misses the bigger picture of the global power grab at play, says Jeffrey A Tucker.
Five years on, it's clear that lockdowns were the greatest health economics mistake in modern history, says Martin Sewell. We would have been better off doing nothing. Next time, we should keep calm and carry on.
Welcome to Pendle, where lockdown didn’t just harm work – it crushed it. With jobs down 26%, the Telegraph's Melissa Lawford explores how local efforts offer hope, but the pandemic’s scars run deep.
Teachers are being forced to improvise with sign language to communicate with primary school pupils whose language skills have been severely impacted by lockdowns, according to a new report.
