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‘A case study in groupthink’: were liberals wrong about the pandemic?
US political scientists’ book argues aggressive Covid policies such as mask mandates were in some cases misguided
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6 mins
How lockdown created Starmerism Politics means more than clapping
Naff; garish; tedious; mandatory; much hyped at the time; discrediting to many; ending with a large damages bill and a…
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10 mins
Ten lockdown lessons to learn for next time
Five years since Boris Johnson ordered the UK to stay home, steps to prepare for the next national emergency are…
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Will the world lockdown end in the next Pandemic
“The COVID response caused much more harm than good. That’s my position on that, and I came to it by…
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7 mins
Why Canada needs an 'urgent' public inquiry into its COVID response
Some have argued an inquiry is needed to evaluate the effectiveness and harms of lockdowns, vaccine passports, school closures and…
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4 mins
The cult of Covid censorship is finally being broken
A few days ago, Stanford University hosted the first major university-sponsored conference where different viewpoints on the appropriate management of…
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7 mins
We still need to reckon with the folly of lockdown
The Covid inquiry has exposed the widespread harm caused by the UK’s authoritarian restrictions.
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5 mins
Did the Covid inquiry just admit lockdown was a mistake?
The Covid inquiry has this afternoon published a full report on its first module, assessing the resilience and preparedness of the UK’s pandemic response.