Nigel Farage has hinted that he could join the Conservatives if there was a change of leader as he blasted the party for imposing the third lockdown and for overseeing record tax levels and immigration figures.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has admitted he wanted non-essential shops to open before schools in the first lockdown and it's emerged he pushed for schools to be closed before shops in the second lockdown.
It increasingly appears that the Covid Inquiry, set up by the Blob, staffed and run by the Blob, sees its job as blaming the politicians and excusing the Blob, says Matt Ridley in the Telegraph.
When he appeared at the Covid Inquiry this week, Boris Johnson had a golden opportunity to get to the heart of the issue and denounce lockdown as unnecessary and harmful. But he blew it, says Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.
What gives the relatives of Covid victims the sole right to the moral high ground, asks Allison Pearson. Lockdowns were devastating, and their victims were often far younger than those of Covid.
The German media are waking up to the fact that their mask-loving Health Minister Karl Lauterbach is an international laughingstock thanks to a devastating intervention by Stanford's Professor Jay Bhattacharya.
With a background in writing and editing and a long involvement in politics, Boris Johnson knows how to spin a yarn or two. Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson attempt to translate some of his Covid Inquiry statements.
Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter has told the BBC that Covid infections were dropping before lockdown and he "really, really regrets" not having evidence sooner that closing schools was pointless.
According to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, Brexit has been a major cause of the woeful performance of the U.K. economy over the last few years. That's nonsense, says Matthew Lynn. The truth is it was lockdown.
BBC World Affairs Editor John Simpson has claimed that climate change is driving mass immigration into Europe. However, surveys reveal that it was the over-reaction to Covid that has really triggered the exodus.
