The past two years have seen a 'New Normal' emerge as a set of views about discrimination, prejudice, culture and guilt under which white, heterosexual men began to be obliged to feel guilty for being themselves.
World No. 1 tennis player Novak Djokovic has said he would rather miss out on future tennis competitions than be forced to get a Covid vaccine, adding he was not anti-vaccine but supported a person's right to choose.
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.
Canadian PM Justin Trudeau has invoked the Emergencies Act to crack down on Freedom Convoy protests, which includes empowering banks to freeze the personal accounts of protestors.
White Britons were more likely than black Britons to be infected with Covid during the Delta wave in 2021 despite having significantly higher vaccination rates, ONS analysis shows.
Long Covid joins a long list of syndromes "without clinical explanation", leading to questions of what really lies behind it and to what extent it is actually psychogenic or sociogenic.
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.
The Government has opened a consultation on the NHS and social care vaccine mandates, entitled "Revoking vaccination as a condition of deployment across all health and social care".
Freedom Convoy protests continue in Canada, France and New Zealand – three countries where extreme responses to Covid have persisted for two years and where the unvaccinated are targeted with harsh restrictions.
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.
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