In the last year, there has been an excess of 21,841 cardiovascular deaths. The data suggest it isn’t caused by a fall in drug treatment. The Government should do better to get to the bottom of what is really driving it.
Clinical trials of masks in various settings have failed to show any effect. Which tallies with everyone’s personal experience of mask 'protection'. So, why the sudden reintroduction, ask Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
Does the policy of requiring Chinese arrivals to have negative test make sense? If we don’t trust the data coming out of China, how can we trust the test used before Chinese travellers are allowed to board planes?
Without dissenters to pandemic policies, it would have taken much longer to exit lockdowns. Yet there was a concerted effort in government and media to discredit all dissent, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance are marking their own homework with their 'independent' report on lockdowns, and no surprises that they omit to highlight any of the glaring failures in the approach they took.
Can you catch Covid from groceries, soft toys, tables and sofas? In the wake of alarmist reports from the BBC, Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson parse the evidence.
Test and Trace cost £37bn and made no measurable difference – and its ineffectiveness was clear from the start. Lessons must be learned from such a colossal waste of resources.
Between generous loan schemes with little or no anti-fraud checks and rampant welfare fraud, the UK Government is estimated to have lost over £37bn to fraud during the pandemic.
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.
The NHS is in a perpetual winter crisis, something that more than doubling the budget in the 2000s did nothing to change. With beds already 95% occupied, will Therese Coffey's plan to get us through the winter work?
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