Education Secretary Reveals that ‘Plan B’ for Schools Includes Mask Mandates
Schools will not reintroduce the policy of 'bubbles' to protect pupils against coronavirus, the Education Secretary says, but he hasn't ruled out a return of face masks.
Tag: Mask Mandates
Postcard From Southern Europe, Where Mask Wearing is Almost Universal
A Daily Sceptic reader has just returned from a trip to Spain and Italy and has sent us a guest post. He found the attitude of the locals to mask mandates, even on beaches, depressingly supine.
Butlin’s Has Muzzled the Redcoats – Not So Much Hi-De-Hi as Low-De-Low
A reader has got in touch to tell us about his recent experience at Butlin's. It was ruined by the company's insistence that all members of staff, including the Redcoats, wear masks at all times.
Robert Dingwall: We Need to Hold Advocates of Mask Mandates to Account
Professor Robert Dingwall has written an excellent piece for Social Science Space criticising the imposition of mask mandates. There's little evidence that masks work and the plenty of evidence they cause harm.
The Heresy of Heresies
We're publishing a guest piece on the Daily Sceptic by Charlotte Niemiec. In an impressive tour de horizon, she highlights the Government's endless stream of contradictory and nonsensical advice, from face masks on down.
Boris to Declare End of Mask Mandate and Social Distancing Rules
The Prime Minister has signed off plans to end the legal requirement to wear masks on July 19th, saying the link between COVID-19 infections and hospitalisations has been broken.
End the Mask Mandates Now: Launch of the ‘Smile Free’ Campaign
"Never mind that masks don’t work, masking the healthy harms us all socially and psychologically: all mandates must end on June 21st", argues Dr Gary Sidley in a new piece marking the launch of the Smile Free campaign.
Why Are the Teaching Unions Such Lockdown Zealots?
We're publishing an original article today by two social scientists – Professor Donald S. Siegel and Professor Robert M. Sauer – about the disgraceful behaviour of Britain's teaching unions over the past 15 months.
