Is Mark Steyn a victim of censorship at the hands of GB News? Or is it perfectly reasonable to ask him to abide by Ofcom’s rules, given that it can be fined over £5 million for breaking them and lose its licence?
Lockdown proponents continue to get a free pass in making unwarranted assertions about lockdowns being necessary and effective, despite the evidence clearly showing infections falling ahead of lockdowns being imposed.
In his Spectator column this week, Toby looks at the "head-scratcher" of how progressives seek to both politicise science and appeal to it as an objective source of justification for measures like lockdown and Net Zero.
Boris Johnson is guilty of misleading the House of Commons and, even more seriously, of putting the lockdown laws on the statute book in the first place, framing them in such a way as to criminalise everyday interaction.
Patrick Vallance has come to the defence of SAGE after some torrid headlines this week following revelations from lead modeller Graham Medley that Government had not asked them to model less disastrous scenarios.
Bristol's Prof Philip Thomas admits he was wrong about the size of the Delta wave, but now predicts no winter surge. I think he's wrong again, and for the same reason – a misunderstanding of herd immunity.
The models from SAGE and others all forecast a huge summer surge as we reopen, but the predictions are already wrong. With the peak expected in the next month, we'll soon know how wrong they are.
The Spectator has added a new table to its data hub showing the current level of Covid infection in different countries around the world relative to the peak. Britain has seen the sharpest decline in the developed world.
