Day: 28 October 2021

A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus — and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.

Fully vaccinated travellers entering the U.K. from the remaining seven countries on the 'red list' will not have to self-isolate from 4am on Monday. But the Government has left the door open to bring back the policy.

Schools are to receive a £1.8 billion funding boost to help resolve the disruption caused by lockdown.

Mason Reed, who lives in Melbourne, has an official Covid vaccine exemption but has been denied work as firms refuse to hire anyone unvaccinated.

A Californian burger restaurant has been closed down following its continuous refusal to check customers for vaccine passports.

Why have the lockdown sceptics' failed to win the argument? Partly because we made the mistake of trying to appeal to reason, but partly because we got some things wrong at the beginning.

Releasing all Covid restrictions on 'Freedom Day' was the right thing to do despite outcry at the time, a study for Imperial College London led by 'Professor Lockdown' Neil Ferguson has found.

A new Lancet pre-print study from Sweden finds zero vaccine efficacy against infection after nine months, and worrying drops against severe disease as well. But some people are living in a parallel universe.