The Government's response to the pandemic was to cast aside all restraint on untrammelled power and plunge the country into authoritarianism. We pulled back from the brink, says Guy de la Bédoyère, but only just.
Lockdown sceptics were denounced as granny killers, banned, shadow-banned and cancelled. Yet as Allison Pearson points out, the Lockdown Files show we were right.
When Nigel Farage posted photographs of himself online breaking lockdown rules, Matt Hancock contacted the Home Office to see if he could get him in trouble. Now Farage is feeling vindicated for ignoring the "pipsqueak".
Matt Hancock was enraged by what he called the "f***ing Sweden argument" and told his aides to “supply three or four bullet points of why Sweden is wrong", leaked WhatsApp messages from the Lockdown Files have revealed.
Matt Hancock told ministers and the country’s most senior civil servant that they needed to “get heavy with the police” to crack down on the public during the Covid pandemic.
Is the trouble with British democracy that it produces politicians as dysfunctional as Matt Hancock, or that it gives politicians so much power in the first place?
The Lockdown Files continue to bring out scandalous revelations about how pandemic management by WhatsApp was conducted. Here are some of the top stories from Wednesday.
The 'Lockdown Files' confirm that there was no 'plandemic'. Matt Hancock was desperately trying to save his skin while careering from pilar to post. He didn't have a driving manual to his clown car, let alone a plan.
The Telegraph has got hold of a cache of WhatsApp messages between Matt Hancock and the main decision-makers during the pandemic. It confirms our worst suspicions. They weren't 'following the Science'. It was a clown show.
Andrew Bridgen is suing Matt Hancock for £100,000 over a Twitter message in which the ex-Health Secretary accused him of spouting “anti-Semitic, anti-vax, anti-scientific conspiracy theories” about the COVID-19 vaccines.
