One of the most powerful teachers union bosses in the U.S. was blasted Thursday on CNN for supporting school lockdowns in the pandemic. A sign of the tide turning?
"I don’t regret speaking out, but I won’t pretend that it has been an easy ride." Headteacher Mike Fairclough spoke out to safeguard kids from the damaging effects of Covid restrictions - and he has paid a high price.
Every time one pupil tested positive in a class, the whole class was sent home for two weeks. Now we know Matt Hancock rejected advice to cut the isolation period to five days just to save face. Did he not care?
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.
Some Covid restrictions were "idiocy" and lengthy school closures were an "unnecessary mistake”, Germany’s lockdown chief Karl Lauterbach has admitted.
14 year-old Jack Watson has written a piece for the Daily Sceptic about the impact of the pandemic on his education. He says the only lesson he learned in two years is the rules don’t apply to those who make them.
A new study enumerates 12 ways in which leading scientists were censored for their heterodox views on COVID-19 and the ways they found to deal with them without recanting their heresy.
Brown Professor Emily Oster has called for a "pandemic amnesty", pleading ignorance on the failed, coercive policies. But were experts really ignorant, and is an amnesty really the right way forward?
Schoolchildren in the United States have fallen behind in their learning by almost a year in some subjects due to the impact of school closures and other pandemic measures, according to the latest official assessments.
Are lockdown fanatics, who seem unfussed about stunting children's lives with school closures, masks, distancing and endless testing, actually compensating for a lack of real meaning in their lives, asks Fraser Krats.
