The number of new daily Covid cases in the U.K. fell to 21,952 today, the lowest it's been in five weeks. Meanwhile, deaths are up slightly compared to last Monday and hospitalisations are down.
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about Covid and other areas of warranted scepticism in the past 24 hours – not just in Britain, but around the world.
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about Covid and other areas of warranted scepticism in the past 24 hours – not just in Britain, but around the world.
A raging battle has erupted in the Cabinet over plans for a danger list of countries – an 'Amber watch list' – that could see destinations like Spain and Italy suddenly move to red.
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about Covid and other areas of warranted scepticism in the past 24 hours – not just in Britain, but around the world.
Confusion reigns over the prevalence of Covid in the UK. MailOnline says it's declining, the Guardian says it's going up and the ONS says it's gone up a bit– or did in England in w/e July 24th. So what's really going on?
The Daily Sceptic is publishing a new post by its in-house doctor about the NHS's admission that ~25% of patients with Covid were admitted for something else. How much longer can we continue to trust the NHS's figures?
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about Covid and other areas of warranted scepticism in the past 24 hours – not just in Britain, but around the world.
We're publishing on original essay today by Dr. Lee Jones, a reader in International Politics at Queen Mary, who argues that trying to suppress a virus that has an infection fatality rate of 0.05% for the under-70s is pointless.
Britain's families face paying hundreds of pounds more a year on food, flying and shipping costs to meet the net-zero emissions target by 2050, according to a new report.
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