Professor Sir Chris Whitty was responsible for government guidance that was believed to have triggered the spread of Covid into care homes, the Telegraph has revealed.
The treatment of one of our leading mathematicians over his evidence-based dissident views on climate and Covid would have Galileo spinning in his grave, says Tilak Doshi.
Is Chinese President Xi Jinping – the great architect of the Covid lockdowns – about to be defenestrated? Those are the rumours coming out of China – and the fallout from the lockdowns is part of the reason.
It's tempting to see in the Covid response some malevolent design. And it's easy to find elite networks that promoted the crazy policies. But there's a key reason why conspiracy theories are always wrong, says Colin Meade.
Australia's scandal-ridden Covid Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been awarded the nation's top honour. Last year it went to Covid dictators Dan Andrews and Mark McGowan. Talk about failing up, says Rebekah Barnett.
Five years ago this month, the world changed. Manipulated by the media and deranged by politicians' daily podium pronouncements, the population lost its grip on reality and succumbed to mask mania, writes Paul Stevens.
In the Covid cock-up vs conspiracy debate, it's clear most politicians were clueless. But was the response being coordinated behind the scenes? Prof Roger Watson reviews a new book that finds troubling evidence it was.
On this, the five-year anniversary of the first UK mask mandate, clinical psychologist Dr Gary Sidley reminds us of the harms of wearing face coverings, a topic addressed in the soon-to-be-released film, Masking Humanity.
As Tommy Robinson emerges with a beard, Prof James Alexander muses on their rise on the Right. If Boris Johnson had not been so insanely clean-shaven, he would surely have stood up like a man to the nonsense of Covid.
The UK Covid Inquiry seems to be avoiding most of the fundamental questions. A new peer-reviewed paper faces them head on, slamming the global mismanagement of Covid and making recommendations for future outbreaks.
