Tag: Lockdown harms

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.

Children have been turned feral by lockdown and are leaving the rest of us living in fear, says Camilla Tominey, as she notes an alarming 16% rise in criminality amongst under-18s since 2020.

Joanna Gray works with some of the countless children whose mental health was devastated by lockdown. No wonder the NHS is reporting anxiety referrals through the roof. When will children get their apology?

Joanna Gray explores the curious mindset behind some parents’ impulse to label their child as disabled when they are not, even going so far as to get a fake disabled parking badge.

Critics are pushing for swimming pools to ditch restrictive post-Covid booking rules, arguing that they hinder access to exercise and risk creating a "lost generation" of young swimmers.