We’ve got a Prime Minister who set the rules on COVID-19, then repeatedly reminded the public what those rules were and why they had to be followed, now telling us that nobody actually told him what the very rules were.
Omicron: Viral load can be at its highest at day five so cutting isolation period doesn’t make sense.
Professor Sally Cutler || 5 min readAre economic drivers the reason for the reduced isolation period in the UK? What evidence is the government using on which this reduction is based?
How dare scientists do something to prevent more deaths in the UK!
Dr Deepti Gurdasani || 3 min readWhy shouldn’t we look for ways to pursue better health care in the UK? And why wouldn’t we want “to do more” to prevent deaths? Dr Deepti Gurdasani on the scale of normalisation of excess deaths in the UK media.
Nobody told me this was against the rules – Boris Johnson.
3 min readWe’ve got a Prime Minister who set the rules on COVID-19, then repeatedly reminded the public what those rules were and why they had to be followed, now telling us that nobody actually told him what the very rules were.
Today in COVID 🦠 17 Jan 2022.
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Today in COVID 🦠 16 Jan 2022.
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Today in COVID 🦠 15 Jan 2022.
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Omicron: Viral load can be at its highest at day five so cutting isolation period doesn’t make sense.
5 min readAre economic drivers the reason for the reduced isolation period in the UK? What evidence is the government using on which this reduction is based?
Is the party over for Boris Johnson? This polling detail suggests it could well be.
6 min readThere is a clear route out of the Boris Johnson problem for Tory MPs – namely to remove the prime minister and hope for a recovery in the polls by electing a new leader.
Boris Johnson’s Downing Street party apology: Three key takeaways.
5 min readBoris Johnson is sort of sorry – but the caveats are key. There is little doubt that his apology only occurred because the PM had no other choice – the evidence was too strong. But we can be sure that he will stick to this argument like glue.
Brexiters now worry about the judgment of history.
14 min readProfessor Chris Grey’s analysis on the recent spate of Brexiter anxiety about Brexit realities, the conundrum this poses for Boris Johnson, and why it matters so much to Brexiters – and to all of us.
What are the symptoms of omicron?
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Brexit returns to its roots.
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Not my Brexit.
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Either we kill coal or coal will kill us.
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Trapped between a rock and a party place.
5 min readAt this point in time, it might be easier for Boris Johnson to list the days when there wasn’t a booze-up in Downing Street.
Schools are stuck in 2020 too.
6 min readIt’s a new year. But it somehow still feels like 2020 too. We know so much more about COVID yet we are still having the same conversations we had in 2020, Stephanie Salgado writes.
In Tory Britain, you never know what will happen yesterday.
5 min readThe UK is now at that critical point where it is about to slide into full-blown authoritarianism, presided over by an entitled clown.