Experts and health professionals on Number 10 sidelining behaviour experts at SAGE, thousands of COVID deaths reported every week, teenagers finally getting vaccinated in England, COVID cases among schoolchildren hitting record peak in England, and England’s new, controversial Covid travel rules.
Think before getting outraged by the Home Office’s crazy ideas.
Dan Sohege || 3 min readPersonal attacks against Priti Patel might be cathartic, and easy, but they yet again play into the Home Office’s hands. Why do you think she is still in post?
COVID winter plan: UK blueprint doesn’t go far enough.
Professor Trish Greenhalgh || 5 min readWithout an adequate plan, the UK will be stuck in a cycle of rising deaths and measures introduced too late to counter them.
COVID vaccine boosters – Who will receive them and why are they being given?
Dr Sarah Pitt || 5 min readAt this point in the pandemic, we ought to be able to both offer boosters to the most vulnerable ahead of the winter and increase the pace of vaccine rollout across the world.
Front pages — 24 September 2021.
2 min readWe take a look at the front pages of the main UK newspapers and magazines today with a special focus on political stories without any side distractions.
Today in Covid 🚨 23 September 2021.
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Front pages — 23 September 2021.
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Today in Covid 🚨 22 September 2021.
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Front pages — 22 September 2021.
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Think before getting outraged by the Home Office’s crazy ideas.
3 min readPersonal attacks against Priti Patel might be cathartic, and easy, but they yet again play into the Home Office’s hands. Why do you think she is still in post?
What’s with the Gallic ire?
3 min readFrance is hopping mad that the US, UK and Australia have announced a new three-way defence alliance.
Had it been Brexit in 2005, there would have been no ‘British’ success at the US Open.
2 min readBritain is celebrating Emma Raducanu’s stunning success as “the first British woman to win a singles grand slam since Virginia Wade in 1977”. But what would have happened had the UK left the EU a decade earlier?
Fact-checking 6 myths about the Covid jabs for 12 to 15-year-olds.
7 min readTime to debunk a few myths I have seen floating around the media regarding the vaccination of 12 to 15-year-olds.
Today in Covid 🚨 23 September 2021.
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Today in Covid 🚨 22 September 2021.
11 min read
Today in Covid 🚨 21 September 2021.
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Today in Covid 🚨 20 September 2021.
12 min read
Justice today... and tomorrow?
4 min read
Justice for George Floyd and his family.
6 min read
The only exit strategy is elimination.
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Too much democracy for this little island?
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Brexit – The ludicrous proposition.
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Johnson’s bridge to nowhere.
6 min readBoris Johnson’s plan for a fixed link between Scotland and Northern Ireland was never realistic. His vanity project was always about attaching his name to something to provide him with a legacy.
I know. I promised myself. But...
4 min readDonald Trump is not the type to fade quietly into the woodwork. Will he be running again? Could he become president again?
Crying for not being able to protect my children.
2 min read“I tried to protect my children – now I am being forced to send them in by a government that has done nothing to keep them safe.”
Why it will soon be too late to find out where the COVID-19 virus originated.
5 min readSince the WHO’s investigation earlier this year, several papers have come to the same conclusion regarding the likely origins of SARS-CoV-2. Yet progress is too slow.