Five years on from COVID-19, the medical and public health establishments are still some way from acknowledging that the response was entirely disproportionate and inappropriate. Dr Alan Mordue refreshes our memories.
Back in March 2020 Toby was among a depressingly select group of journalists who opposed the lockdowns. The other side included his now Spectator Editor Michael Gove, who has let him write about it in this week's magazine.
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.
Civil Service "groupthink", Brexit and planning for flu rather than a coronavirus led Britain to be unprepared for the pandemic, the Covid Inquiry has found.
In the UK, as in the US, the Covid pandemic response switched abruptly in mid-March 2020 from a standard public health plan to a totalitarian lockdown-until-vaccine plan. Debbie Lerman digs into why this happened.
The Covid response was the opposite of what appeared in long-prepared pandemic plans – and turned accepted principles of medical ethics on their heads, with disastrous results, says Dr Alan Mordue.
Dame Jenny Harries, head of the U.K. Health Security Agency, suggests the U.K. will adopt a Swedish-style approach to social distancing in the future, focusing on voluntary measures and transparent risk communication.
The first phase of the Covid Inquiry has ended. Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson report on what we have learned so far, namely, that the captain of the ship wasn't so much missing as there simply was no captain.
A contributor to the Daily Sceptic has devised a template email to send to the Conservative leadership candidates asking them whether they'd lock us down again in the event of another pandemic.
The World Health Organisation is to make lockdowns and other non-pharmaceutical interventions intended to curb viral spread part of official pandemic guidance, and has said the work to do this is already underway.
