Here’s why it matters so much IT’S NOT the rule-breaking that was the problem, it was the rule-making. That’s the essential point about Partygate. We see Boris Johnson’s No 10 flouting rules they clearly felt were ludicrous, inappropriate, repressive, disproportionate and ineffective. Otherwise they wouldn’t have partied as they did, or tried to defend their …
The media misses the central point about Partygate Read More »
JUST LAST WEEKEND Jeremy Hunt rather made a fool of himself. Going on GB News he had the shameless audacity to claim that had he been Prime Minister he would have avoided Boris Johnson’s lockdowns (essentially by using track and trace – which was not even in place to cope with the tsunami of numbers it would …
Sir Keir Starmer cannot duck his large share of the lockdown blame Read More »
HAVE SOME POLITICIANS never heard of Google? Are there really people in today’s politics who don’t realise we can look-up the internet via things called search engines and find what they and their colleagues have said in the past? Either Jeremy Hunt, former Health Secretary and losing candidate for the Conservative Party leadership in 2019, …
Jeremy Hunt cannot whitewash over his past support for lockdowns Read More »
By Brian Monteith – 5 minute read Here’s a simple question to ask yourself, or your friends and relatives – “After all that you have experienced and witnessed during the last two years of the Covid pandemic do you trust your own government to manage the next pandemic response, if one is required?” I have no …
There’s good news from the outcome of the Covid Inquiry terms of reference consultation – but there are also some serious concerns. THE IMPORTANCE of the Covid-19 Inquiry to the future of this country is enormous. It has at its core a mission to learn the lessons of the Covid-19 response ‘for the future’ which …
Covid Public Inquiry terms of reference – More wins than worries? Read More »
By Brian monteith – 4 minute read AFTER ALL WE have witnessed these last two years there are only two ways we can choose to manage our public health response to global pandemics. The first is to recognise we were patronised, manipulated, lied to, censored, sometimes criminalised or put under effective house arrest, unable to see …
Outsourcing our pandemic response to ‘WHO’ risks unaccountable lockdowns on steriods Read More »
IT SEEMS that few places are currently safe from Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s ‘Zero Covid’ strategy, a policy designed to keep his country’s Covid death rate (a figure often disputed by the outside world) at an extremely low level just as the rest of the world is learning to live with the virus. The stories …
YET ANOTHER study has been published pulling down the claims of effectiveness of mask wearing and consequently mask mandates as a worthwhile medical intervention to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Published in the medical journal Cureus, the peer-reviewed ‘Correlation Between Mask Compliance and COVID-19 Outcomes in Europe’ is naturally causing a stir. Authored by Beny Spira, …
Masks found wanting in comparative study of 35 countries Read More »
A STUDY of NHS data by the BMA tells a story of how the NHS is struggling to cope with the backlog of patients and procedures that was caused by the various lockdowns and restrictions in response to the Covid pandemic. The government was repeatedly warned by Recovery and many healthcare specialists that this would …
Four tables that show why Lockdowns should never happen again Read More »
THE RECENT announcement from the General Medical Council that doctors face being struck off for spreading fake news on lockdowns and vaccines is somewhat frightening given the recent experience of Dr Sam White, a GP in Hampshire. It has a chilling Orwellian overtone to it. It seems to imply that fake news is anything not approved by the Government and any of …
Doctors’ voices must be heard on lockdown and public health errors Read More »
