News Round-Up
22 April 2026
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The Covid Inquiry has failed to ask the most basic question: why were people dying, says Dr Andrew Bamji – a clinician who correctly adduced the answer in April 2020 and brought it to SAGE's attention, but was ignored.
Covid school closures, everyone now agrees, were an unmitigated disaster. Everyone, it seems, except the Covid Inquiry, which this week proved it is determined to repeat them, says Molly Kingsley.
The treatment of one of our leading mathematicians over his evidence-based dissident views on climate and Covid would have Galileo spinning in his grave, says Tilak Doshi.
Dr Andrew Bamji began blogging about Covid in February 2020. Looking back he finds he was mostly right, unlike the 'experts' on SAGE who refused to listen to him. His Covid writings are now collected in a new book.
Dr Rachel Nicoll has made a video about the shortcomings of the government's pandemic response and in particular just how unscientific its claims to be 'following the Science' were. Here, she summarises its contents.
Government advisers now falsely claim never to have supported pandemic fear messaging. Nonsense, says Laura Dodsworth, who kept the receipts and sets the record straight.
Professor Peter Horby's appearance at the Covid Inquiry provided confirmation of the role of the shadowy DELVE group in bringing mask mandates to the U.K., overturning all the scientific advice to that point.
Stephen Andrews overheard an alternative Covid Inquiry hearing and scribbled it down, in which the Chair was heard to suggest a new collective noun for f**kwits – a SAGE.
After our great successes in dealing with the Covid crisis, why not deal with the pothole crisis in the same way? Here's what that could look like.
Boris Johnson was secretly nudged into wearing a mask, according to the head of the Government's 'nudge unit', who says he turned his powers of persuasion on the PM after "it became clear he was not leading by example".