Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has confirmed that the Government's disinformation unit is "working", after suggestions from Labour that the counter disinformation policy was scrapped in the summer.
The Government has published the evidence informing its recent decision to require face masks in secondary school classrooms – but inadvertently reveals why they're a terrible idea.
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.
A closer look at the recent papers from Oxford University on post-vaccine myocarditis finds some concerns about the methodology which may underestimate the risk.
The UKHSA has announced that confirmatory PCR tests will no longer be available for those who test positive on an LFT test without symptoms, raising fears of staff shortages being exacerbated by false positives.
French President Emmanuel Macron has said he wants to "piss off" the unvaccinated by banning them from public venues such as restaurants, cafes and cinemas.
Covid testing rules are to be relaxed as part of efforts to shorten isolation periods and ease staffing shortages. But given mass testing has clearly failed to contain the virus why continue it at all?
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 problem is that almost anything, including declining vaccination, can be construed as "prejudicial to the interests of others". We don't need a harm principle; we need a freedom principle.
French scientists at the IHU Mediterranee Infection have announced the discovery of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 which, they say has more mutations than Omicron and may be more resistant to vaccines.
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