Lockdown was necessary to prevent an "extraordinarily high loss of life", Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty told the Covid Inquiry today, despite Sweden long ago exposing such a claim as palpable nonsense.
Voters are increasingly worried about immigration as the scale of Tory failure on the issue becomes apparent, but not enough to support the politicians who will actually do something about it, it appears.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Nigel Farage eating ze bugs, Elon Musk's lawsuit against the haters at Media Matters and Argentina's new libertarian President.
Patrick Vallance branded his Chief Medical Officer colleague Chris Whitty a "delayer", it has emerged, as the former Chief Scientific Adviser tells the Covid Inquiry future lockdowns must be "harder and earlier".
Moderna is spying on you, say Lee Fang and Jack Poulson as they expose the behind-the-scenes machinations of the Covid vaccine maker to shape and censor the public debate around the jabs.
A jury has cleared nine climate activists of causing £500,000 worth of criminal damage to HSBC’s London headquarters after they argued they had a "lawful excuse" for the action.
Climate change "hazards" threaten 71% of National Trust properties, the charity has said in a new report where it claims to be already experiencing more frequent drought, heavy rain and wildfires on its sites.
Sadiq Khan misled the public about the “benefits” of Ulez in radio and newspaper advertisements, a draft report from the advertising watchdog leaked to the Telegraph reveals.
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the virus and the vaccines, the ‘climate emergency’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
Police officers have been told not to say "man up", "OAP", "policeman" and "middle-aged", along with a host of other common words and phrases when dealing with the public as they could be "unlawful discrimination".
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