Tag: Lockdown

Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson have decided that they will continue to cover the Covid Inquiry, despite its extreme biases, but will leave reporting on the sordid sideshows to others.

Nicola Sturgeon’s draconian COVID-19 rules caused children to attempt to take their own lives and parents to consider “suicide pacts”, a public inquiry has heard.

Heart failure deaths in 2023 are up 26% on 2020 levels, liver-related deaths are up 22% and diabetes deaths are up 19%. What's behind these worrying trends, asks Nick Rendell.

The Covid Inquiry is now hopelessly compromised by the partisan words of its own Chair. It has become an embarrassment and is jeopardising the reputation of the English legal system.

The U.K.'s new Chief Scientific Adviser pushed hard for lockdown during Covid, describing Rishi Sunak as "Dr. Death" for trying to get the country back to normal and opposing restrictions.

The boundary between liberal democracy and draconian dictatorship proved to be virus thin, writes Professor Ramesh Thakur. Tools of repression became uncomfortably familiar on the streets of Western democracies.

Professor Mark Woolhouse of the University of Edinburgh, a member of the SAGE Covid modelling group, has told the Covid Inquiry his team was never asked to model the harms of lockdown or how to avoid it.

UKHSA's 100 Covid models that it says are the evidence base for lockdown are not science, say Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson, who have now gone through and reviewed them all.

In the latest instance of lockdown backpedalling, Professor Neil Ferguson, the architect of Britain's lockdown, today denied ever calling for the first national stay-at-home order.

Cabinet Secretary Simon Case said he believed Carrie Johnson was the real Prime Minister during lockdown, text messages shown at the Covid Inquiry reveal.