NHS bureaucracy has doubled since the start of the pandemic despite little change in the size of the frontline workforce, a new report reveals, as a record 6.4 million people are on waiting lists.
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus – and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.
Woke capitalism is fast going out of fashion as hard realities catch up – as they inevitably do – with progressive posturing.
Entrepreneur John Caudwell has condemned the pandemic-induced WFH culture as "a catastrophe for the British economy" and an "epidemic of inefficiency" as he demands that civil servants get back to their desks.
The Chair of the UK independent public Covid inquiry, Baroness Heather Hallett, has told the Prime Minister she wants her inquiry to cover vaccine side-effects and fatalities.
In April 2020 the New York Times published the Red Dawn emails – a thread from early 2020 that included senior US officials discussing the emerging situation. Is this the closest we'll get to a lockdown conspiracy?
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus – and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.
Of the many myths that have taken hold during the pandemic, perhaps none is more central than that the Government was caught out by Covid with no idea how it ought to respond, when in fact it threw its plan in the bin.
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus – and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.
Covid levels continued to drop in England last week, falling to their lowest levels since the start of December before Omicron took off. ONS data also suggest BA.2 may be half as deadly as BA.1.
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