Education Secretary Gavin Williamson faces a legal challenge over the wearing of face masks in schools as he is told that official guidance will have "devastating” effects for deaf children.
New data establishes the relationship between the strictness of lockdowns and the level of economic harm. Will this lead to a more frank discussion on the trade-offs of having one of the strictest lockdowns in the OECD?
A Government fund established to support the arts through lockdowns has handed over little more than half of the money it has allocated. Why not just scrap the fund altogether and let the industry re-open?
Italy is set to impose another national lockdown over the Easter weekend. From April 3rd to April 5th, people will only be allowed to leave their homes for work, health or emergency reasons.
Just 10% of Manhattan’s one million office workers had returned to the workplace by early March. In the long term, some employers expect 56% of their office staff to continue working remotely at least part of the time.
Nicola Sturgeon acted outside of her constitutional powers by closing churches, a Scottish court heard today. Ministers believe that the Government should not have challenged the manner in which beliefs are expressed.
Boris Johnson has been warned that lockdown rules will look “silly” if Covid cases continue to fall. A growing number of Tory MPs are publicly challenging the Government's "roadmap" out of lockdown for being too slow.
4.6 million people were on the waiting list to begin hospital treatment in January, the highest since records began in 2007. The number waiting more than a year was 300,000 – up from 1,650 last year.
Denmark has temporarily halted the administration of the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine following reports of cases of blood clots forming. Austria has also paused usage while investigating a death from coagulation disorders.
Psychiatrists at Cambridge University have drawn attention to the impact of lockdown on young people. They demand urgent action "to ensure that this generation is not disproportionately disadvantaged by Covid".
© 2026 Skeptics Ltd.
