COMMENT

Masks in schools is not a matter of opinion. It works.

— Suggesting that the benefit of wearing face masks at school to limit the spread of COVID-19 is more based on hope than evidence is misinformation. Even when it comes from the BBC.

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21st century Britain: Still the ‘emancipated empire’?

— Is history best looked at once we have finished with the future, as UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss seems to believe?

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This Christmas we managed to frighten ourselves into deep gloom.

— It’s probably a sign of the times that the hottest, newest Netflix Christmas movie this year was ‘Don’t Look Up’.

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On the Imperial College study on Omicron severity.

— All suggest that the observed reduction in severity is very likely due to the fact that a much larger proportion of omicron cases are people with prior infection.

EU Citizens

Home Office sued for breach of the Withdrawal Agreement.

— On Wednesday, the Independent Monitoring Authority for the Citizens’ Rights Agreements (IMA) launched a lawsuit against the Home Office for breaching the terms of the Withdrawal Agreements for people who have been granted pre-settled status.

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A moral vacuum... on either side of the English Channel?

— On either side of the English Channel, the debate is about a moral vacuum.

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Who do we not save?

— Stop using words like ‘balance’ to justify a policy of mass infection, avoidable deaths, and chronic illness. This was never about balance.

COMMENT

Thank you for writing to your MP about physical proof of status.

— Watch MPs defending an amendment asking for Comprehensive Sickness Insurance (CSI) to be removed as a requirement when EU citizens apply for citizenship in the UK.

COMMENT

Omicron variant – Signs so far suggest the potential threat is high.

— Given the potential threat of Omicron, it makes sense to assume a worst-case scenario and plan for this, rather than respond too late.

COMMENT

Asylum seekers crossing the Channel – Stop the BS!

— No one risks their life crossing one of the busiest shipping routes in the world for a fiver a day, a cheap mobile phone and to be stuck three-to-a-room in a dilapidated hell hole while struggling to access the legal system.

COMMENT

85 minutes as president – Kamala Harris’ place in history.

— Kamala Harris became the first woman to formally assume the powers of the presidency... for 85 minutes, while Joe Biden underwent a routine examination.

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The dictator returns — through his spawn.

— How countries sometimes strangely welcome the return of former dictators... or rather their children.

COMMENT

That subtle racism.

— An example of egregious subtle racism I faced yesterday.

COMMENT

Trump-lite is flavour of the month.

— Can Trump-lite lead the Republican Party to a big win in the US 2022 midterms?

COMMENT

Covid in the UK is the worst it has ever been. What’s the government doing?

— The latest REACT-1 study shows what many experts and health professionals feared would happen in the UK without mitigations: a higher number of infections in households with children is driving the rise of infection in the 65+ age group. Analysis of the REACT-1 study results by Dr Deepti Gurdasani.

COMMENT

Long COVID and why choosing to expose children to infection rather than vaccinate them is negligent and harmful.

— Let’s do a deep delve into Long COVID – this syndrome that some in the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) are in denial about!