There's a horrifying story in the Sunday Times this morning that lays bare the terrible psychological damage wrought by the mind-benders of the SPI-B – 10% of Britons want lockdown restrictions to last forever!
SAGE's claim that the Indian variant could mean 10,000 hospital admissions a day in mid-July assumes that between 30% and 60% of the U.K. population could become infected with the new variant in a single week. Yeah, right.
We're publishing a guest post today about an unexpected benefit of the pandemic: the emergence of scientifically- and data-literate groups of amateurs who scrutinise and challenge the official scientific narrative.
Anti-lockdown protests are taking place across the world today and protestors are streaming through Central London this afternoon. Needless to say, the BBC has yet to cover the demonstration.
We're publishing an original essay today about the decline of Britain into an authoritarian, one-party state by Dr. James Alexander, an Assistant Prof in the Department of Political Science at Bilkent University in Turkey.
Scotland's Supreme Leader, Nic Sturge-On, has announced that the lockdown rules will remain in force in Glasgow and Moray after Monday while restrictions are eased in the rest of Scotland.
We're publishing an original piece tonight by Dr Sinéad Murphy, an Associate Researcher in Philosophy at Newcastle University, about why it is the public have put up so little resistance to lockdowns.
We've taken a look at the new modelling from Imperial, Warwick and LSHTM that led to headlines earlier this week saying SAGE was no longer predicting an apocalyptic 'third wave'. Unfortunately, it's not all good news.
Man Utd fans who've applied to be in the ballot for tickets to the Europa League final in Gdansk on May 26th were sent an email by the club this evening that will put off all but the most avid fans from travelling.
Read this original piece for Lockdown Sceptics in defence of the handshake by Dr David McGrogan, Associate Professor at Northumbria Law School. As he says, we cannot hope to return to normal without shaking hands again.
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