The Covid Inquiry is right to name and shame Matt Hancock, says Professor Angus Dalgleish. The then-Health Secretary failed to provide the leadership we needed and abandoned the pandemic plan at the first opportunity.
Matt Hancock, the ex-Health Secretary, has failed in his bid to have Andrew Bridgen's libel case thrown out after Hancock branded him antisemitic, paving the way for a full trial.
Dr David Livermore takes aim at the UK's fatal decision to disperse elderly Covid patients to care homes in 2020, arguing that an overlooked solution could have averted the virus's spread and ensuing high death toll.
Historian Guy de la Bédoyère says the SAGE scientists didn't have a clue about whether to lock down or not in March 2020, any more than historians know much about what went on in the past.
The rise and fall of Babylon Health, a U.K. tech startup backed by former Health Secretary Matt Hancock, that ultimately collapsed due to inflated AI technology claims.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are the mainstream media's attempt to shut down GB News, Nigel Farage starring at the Conservative party conference and Matt Hancock getting beasted on TV.
Canadian public health officials are reeling following the publication of an investigation in the BMJ criticising Canada's Covid response, though its criticisms aren't necessarily the ones sceptics would agree with.
Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson turn their sardonic gaze on week three of the pandemic inquiry. They think it's beginning to look as though the KCs may have done their homework.
The central problem was that Government pandemic plans didn't prepare us to lock down hard enough and fast enough, ex-Health Secretary Matt Hancock has told the Covid Inquiry.
The Standard covered the first performance of the Lockdown Files Live on Saturday, with Isabel Oakeshott interviewed on stage about the WhatsApp messages Hancock handed to her. Highlight was actors reading out excerpts.
