Patrick Vallance branded Chris Whitty a lockdown 'delayer', but he seems to have forgotten that before the first lockdown he was himself a champion of herd immunity and avoiding "hard suppression".
Patrick Vallance branded his Chief Medical Officer colleague Chris Whitty a "delayer", it has emerged, as the former Chief Scientific Adviser tells the Covid Inquiry future lockdowns must be "harder and earlier".
Once the golden boy of UK primary education, Mike Fairclough was the only headteacher to question the vaccinating and masking of children – and found himself being investigated by counter-terrorism agencies.
The UKHSA pleads poverty to get out of providing any systematic appraisal of the models it used to justify lockdown despite having a £2.4bn Covid budget for the coming year, say Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson.
Memories of 2020 are now fading, meaning it can be easy to forget how on that Remembrance Sunday some bravely defied the lockdown to gather at war memorials. But we must not forget, as the tyranny must not be repeated.
Not seeing loved ones at least once a month and living alone significantly increases people’s risk of dying, academics at the University of Glasgow have found. Does this help explain pandemic deaths?
The Munk debate on the 'crisis of liberalism' missed the plot, says Bruce Pardy. "No one mentioned Covid restrictions. No one mentioned the weaponisation of the legal system. No one mentioned government censorship."
The spreading dominance of the woke agenda was a key enabling environment in 2020 for the Covid interventions, says Ramesh Thakur. "Wokism is a war on Western civilisation and empirical science."
The 'graph of doom' used to justify the second lockdown was known by the Government to be wrong, evidence submitted to the Covid Inquiry has shown. So why was it used?
As the Covid Inquiry continues to suggest that locking down earlier would have saved lives, Nick Rendell reminds us that infections were already falling before lockdown and any response would have seemed to 'work'.
