There's a good piece in the Mail on Sunday today questioning whether it's sensible for the Government to continue updating the Covid dashboard every day, given how obsessed we've all become with the data.
Top U.K. universities are chartering flights to bring Chinese students into the country next month in an effort to overcome travel restrictions. Britain's Chinese students account for a fifth of all tuition fee income.
A reader has got in touch to tell us about his recent experience at Butlin's. It was ruined by the company's insistence that all members of staff, including the Redcoats, wear masks at all times.
We're publishing an essay on the Daily Sceptic today by historian Guy de la Bédoyère about the risk that Australia may actually break apart as a result of its political leaders' mismanagement of the coronavirus crisis.
The NHS has drawn up plans to start vaccinating 12-year-olds from the first week schools go back in spite of the fact that 12 year-olds have more chance of being struck by lightning than dying of Covid.
We're publishing a critique in the Daily Sceptic of the new paper in Nature by Neil Ferguson et al making the laughable claim that a lockdown in Sweden would have resulted in a two- to four-fold reduction in mortality.
We're publishing a new 'Postcard' on the Daily Sceptic today, this one by a man who's just returned from Poland with his wife and two kids. The archive of dispatches from readers all over the world is a great resource.
We're publishing another of Steve Waterson's peerless rants in the Daily Sceptic today. Waterman is the Commercial Editor of the Australian and one of the country's finest columnists. This one's a humdinger.
Read this piece for Mail+ about the new rainbow-coloured patrol cars the police have introduced in an effort to tackle hate crime. Isn’t it time the woke boys in blue started policing our streets, not our tweets?
We're publishing another "Postcard From Manilla" on the Daily Sceptic. The Philippines boasts the longest continuous lockdown in the world and there are no signs it's about to be lifted. Sounds even worse than Australia.
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