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May 17, 2020 6:14 pm Published by Toby Young 446 Comments

As week eight of the lockdown comes to a close, there are some rumblings of dissent – although it’s coming...

May 17, 2020 4:19 pm Published by Toby Young 58 Comments

By Kathrine Jebsen Moore Reading through the daily Lockdown Sceptics newsletter the other day, I was dismayed to see that...

May 17, 2020 3:01 pm Published by Toby Young 25 Comments

by Freddie Attenborough There’s a photograph doing the rounds in the mainstream press (May 13th, above) which depicts a group...

May 16, 2020 1:50 pm Published by Toby Young 528 Comments

The Express leads with the fact that 15 million day-trippers are expected to hit the road this weekend, taking advantage...

May 15, 2020 4:52 pm Published by Toby Young 360 Comments

The Mirror leads with the preprint I flagged up yesterday estimating that by the end of April 29% of the...

May 14, 2020 6:18 pm Published by Toby Young 464 Comments

Today’s Guardian leads on the care home scandal, which Keir Starmer succeeded in moving to the top of the news...

May 13, 2020 4:08 pm Published by Toby Young 662 Comments

The Times says the teaching unions are advising their members not to return to work if primary schools reopen in...

May 12, 2020 5:44 pm Published by Toby Young 560 Comments

The press is having fun today about the apparent “confusion” in Boris’s exit plan, with some papers flagging up new...

May 11, 2020 3:28 pm Published by Toby Young 585 Comments

Keeping the handbrake on is a polite way of describing Boris’s raft of announcements yesterday about how and when the...

May 10, 2020 4:59 pm Published by Toby Young 529 Comments

The Sunday Times reports that the Strategic Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) has been told that the British death toll...