The latest data from PHE shows vaccine effectiveness against Delta infection has dropped to just 15% in the over 50s. Protection against death is holding up – though seemingly not in the under-50s.

Covid19 Assembly, an anti-lockdown lobby group, has organised a powerful letter signed by 133 doctors, nurses, paramedics and midwives challenging the thinking behind the Government's response to the coronavirus crisis.

Who could've predicted this? New Zealand's COVID-19 Response Minister has acknowledged that the "zero-Covid" policy hasn't worked, as an outbreak of the Delta variant continues to spread across the country.

There's an excellent piece on the Swiss Policy Research blog, aka the Swiss Doctor, trying to puzzle out why the world fell for the face mask folly, even though everyone knows masks don't work against respiratory viruses.

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.

In a new paper looking at the US, economic consultant L. Jan Reid concludes that the “cost of the lockdowns was up to ten times greater than the benefits”.

More than 50 companies will be removed from the Gov.uk site that lists approved travel testing providers following reports that many are charging more than their advertised costs and are failing to hand over results.

Flu vaccines could be less effective this year due to the total focus on Covid and the drop in global shipments of influenza surveillance samples over the past year of lockdowns.

Professor Robert Dingwall has written an excellent piece for Social Science Space criticising the imposition of mask mandates. There's little evidence that masks work and the plenty of evidence they cause harm.

In this week’s episode of London Calling, James and I discuss the end of the special relationship, Trump urging his supporters to get vaxxed, Australia’s descent into a police state and the rainbow-coloured police cars.

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.

60% of care homes could be forced to sack some of their staff because of the Covid vaccine mandate, according to new estimates, with almost 4% of managers fearing they could lose up to a fifth of their workforce.

Another month without many excess deaths and 2021 will officially be an 'average year' for English mortality.

Students about to begin university need support to help make up for lost learning during school closures over the past year of lockdowns, as well as help addressing "socialisation issues", a university official has said.

Neil Ferguson’s team at Imperial College London have released a new paper, published in Nature, claiming that if Sweden had adopted UK or Danish lockdown policies its COVID mortality would have halved. Although we have reviewed many epidemiological papers…

We're publishing another "Postcard From Manilla" on the Daily Sceptic. The Philippines boasts the longest continuous lockdown in the world and there are no signs it's about to be lifted. Sounds even worse than Australia.

Scotland is at a "fragile and potentially pivotal moment", says Nicola Sturgeon who has once again refused to rule out the imposition of another lockdown due to rising 'cases'.

Read this piece for Mail+ about the new rainbow-coloured patrol cars the police have introduced in an effort to tackle hate crime. Isn’t it time the woke boys in blue started policing our streets, not our tweets?

More businesses and universities are likely to introduce Covid vaccine mandates following the full approval of the Pfizer vaccine by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci.

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.

We're publishing another of Steve Waterson's peerless rants in the Daily Sceptic today. Waterman is the Commercial Editor of the Australian and one of the country's finest columnists. This one's a humdinger.