Thorntons is the latest major high street victim of the Government's lockdowns. All 61 of its stores are to be closed, putting 600 jobs at risk. The retailer was struggling before 2020, but lockdown was the final blow.
The role of SAGE is likely to be reviewed when the pandemic is over. Some Government insiders have already admitted to having "bowed to" the advisory group too often over the past year.
Julia Whitaker, a freelance Health Play Specialist, has written a furious letter to UsForThem Scotland about compulsory face masks in Scottish secondary schools. We have republished it in full.
Germany and France are the latest countries to pause their rollouts of the AstraZeneca jab because of fears over blood clotting. Boris Johnson, Britain's medicines regulator and AZ itself have all defended the vaccine.
A House of Commons Select Committee has published a damning report highlighting the lack of transparency from the Government on key policy decisions relating to lockdowns.
Much of America is only just starting to emerge from months under lockdown, but in Florida people are living their lives as close to normal as currently seems possible. Plus, cases and hospitalisations continue to fall.
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about the virus in the past 24 hours – not just in Britain, but around the world.
Infections were falling in the week before March 23rd 2020, and no-lockdown Sweden fared better than the UK. So how can lockdown have come too late? Should have stuck with the original plan, Boris.
In an original piece for Lockdown Sceptics, former Parliamentary researcher Dr James Moreton Wakeley asks why the police are enforcing lockdown restrictions with such wild abandon.
Boris Johnson believes that he handled the response to Covid poorly in the early days. Apparently, the first lockdown did not come soon – or hard – enough. His supporters claim he was let down by scientific advisors.
