UK reported coronavirus cases hit a new high since June 12 of 1,522 on Thursday. This needs to be set against a continued downward trend of deaths and hospital admissions, with the seven-day average for deaths falling from 64 on July 24 to 11 on Thursday while just 767 coronavirus patients remained in hospital as of... Continue Reading →

Systemic racism is everywhere you look these days. There was athlete Bianca Williams last month, then MP Dawn Butler this week, the Metropolitan Police getting it in the neck as usual for pulling over black drivers. The fact that Ms Williams’s vehicle was being driven in what the police regarded as a ‘suspicious manner’ including being on... Continue Reading →

Is there a risk that re-opening schools will lead to a second wave of coronavirus? That’s what the government says it fears, floating the prospect of closing pubs, restaurants and shops to keep classrooms open come the autumn. New modelling from Professor Neil Ferguson and his team at Imperial College London (ICL) published in the Lancet claims... Continue Reading →

For the sixth week in a row the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has reported deaths below average in England and Wales. For the week ending July 24 there were 8,891 deaths registered, which is 1.8 per cent below the five-year average (161 deaths fewer). While it is the second week in a row to... Continue Reading →

Is Britain really seeing the beginnings of a ‘second wave’ of coronavirus? Carl Heneghan, professor of evidence-based medicine at the University of Oxford, has his doubts. A rare voice of reason throughout the madness of the last six months, Professor Heneghan has done the analysis which appears to be beyond the ken of government scientists... Continue Reading →

They're not even pretending any more. Confronted with a future of an ageing population with not enough children to renew the workforce and pay the taxes to keep the show on the road, rather than wondering what we might do urgently to boost family life, they celebrate it as a victory for women’s liberation and... Continue Reading →