Fury as the government uses Twitter as a propaganda tool to attack the Mail’s covid analysis 

Anger flared last night after the Department of Health and Social Care’s Twitter account was used in an effort to rubbish a report challenging official scaremongering by analysing key facts about the coronavirus pandemic. Under the headline ‘Covid: What They Don’t Tell You’, a two-page article in yesterday’s Daily Mail raised multiple questions about the … Read more

Fury as the government uses Twitter as a propaganda tool to attack the Mail’s covid analysis 

Anger flared last night after the Department of Health and Social Care’s Twitter account was used in an effort to rubbish a report challenging official scaremongering by analysing key facts about the coronavirus pandemic. Under the headline ‘Covid: What They Don’t Tell You’, a two-page article in yesterday’s Daily Mail raised multiple questions about the … Read more

DAVID MELLOR: They’re sending us to hell in a handcart

Surely now is the time for Boris Johnson to offer the courage of his hero Winston Churchill.  We need it more than ever. Yet last week he became the reincarnation of LedruRollin, the French revolutionary, who, as the mob rampaged through Paris in 1848, declared: ‘I must follow them, for I am their leader!’  What … Read more

DAVID MELLOR: They’re sending us to hell in a handcart

Surely now is the time for Boris Johnson to offer the courage of his hero Winston Churchill.  We need it more than ever. Yet last week he became the reincarnation of LedruRollin, the French revolutionary, who, as the mob rampaged through Paris in 1848, declared: ‘I must follow them, for I am their leader!’  What … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Death rate graphs justifying lockdown were WRONG

An official prediction that coronavirus deaths would soon pass those registered in the first wave has been quietly corrected by the government, it emerged last night, because they were too high.  The projections led to the country being hit with a second national lockdown and were shown at a Downing Street press conference last Saturday.  … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Death rate graphs justifying lockdown were WRONG

An official prediction that coronavirus deaths would soon pass those registered in the first wave has been quietly corrected by the government, it emerged last night, because they were too high.  The projections led to the country being hit with a second national lockdown and were shown at a Downing Street press conference last Saturday.  … Read more

NHS boss takes a swipe at Vallance and Whitty’s ‘complicated graphs’ and shows a SINGLE chart

‘Unbelievable slide sass!’ Matt Hancock retweets message saying NHS boss was taking a dig at Vallance and Whitty’s ‘complicated graphs’ at No10 briefings Sir Simon was introducing a graph on rising Covid-19 hospital inpatients NHS CEO said: ‘Sometimes the charts can be a bit hard to keep up with’ Remark prompted a smirk from his … Read more

NHS boss takes a swipe at Vallance and Whitty’s ‘complicated graphs’ and shows a SINGLE chart

‘Unbelievable slide sass!’ Matt Hancock retweets message saying NHS boss was taking a dig at Vallance and Whitty’s ‘complicated graphs’ at No10 briefings Sir Simon was introducing a graph on rising Covid-19 hospital inpatients NHS CEO said: ‘Sometimes the charts can be a bit hard to keep up with’ Remark prompted a smirk from his … Read more

ROSS CLARK: The 4,000 deaths ‘fact’ that made gloomy experts squabble like schoolboys

Faced with a barrage of questions about the dubious graphs they wheeled out during Saturday night’s Halloween Horror press conference, Sir Patrick Vallance and Professor Chris Whitty spent much of yesterday’s Commons select committee hearing shifting in their seats. But there was one question in particular that got Sir Gloom and Professor Doom extremely hot … Read more

ROSS CLARK: The 4,000 deaths ‘fact’ that made gloomy experts squabble like schoolboys

Faced with a barrage of questions about the dubious graphs they wheeled out during Saturday night’s Halloween Horror press conference, Sir Patrick Vallance and Professor Chris Whitty spent much of yesterday’s Commons select committee hearing shifting in their seats. But there was one question in particular that got Sir Gloom and Professor Doom extremely hot … Read more