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• Latest UK Covid-19 Chart
• Pandemic 2.0 – Where do we go from here? The Delta variant and the young.
• What’s at stake for Afghan women?
• Decline and fall of Brexit Britain.
• One rule for us, chumocracy for them.
• Vaccination and ventilation for children – Government’s dither and delay is failing children.
• Europe’s catastrophic flooding was forecast well in advance – What went so wrong?
• How Canada became ‘warmer than Dubai’.
• What’s at stake for Afghan women?
• Is the UK turning to an elected dictatorship?
• Implementing a plan without having a plan.
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• Latest UK Covid-19 Chart
• Why vaccines will not be the sole answer to COVID-19.
• Poorly designed study minimises long COVID in children.
• Why test rates are falling in the UK – A confused picture.
• Long COVID and why choosing to expose children to infection rather than vaccinate them is negligent and harmful.
• COVID-19 in the UK – Power, expert complicity, and the manufacture of inevitability.
• SARS-CoV-2 mutations: Why the virus might still have some tricks to pull.
• What happens if a far more lethal coronavirus emerges in pets?
• Will mask-wearing still be common in Britain after the pandemic is over?
• No, we can’t treat COVID-19 like the flu. We have to consider the lasting health problems it causes.
• Will Covid-19 become endemic, and what would this mean?
• Spain wants to fine Franco apologists – The latest example of using laws to address uncomfortable history.
• The Frost-Johnson approach has already failed.
• Decline and fall of Brexit Britain.
• Three takeaways from the Taliban’s return to Kabul.
• Vaccination and ventilation for children – Government’s dither and delay is failing children.
• No one is safe until every school is safe.
Our forgotten children will suffer most from Covid being let rip – again.
Irish sea border: Trust is the biggest problem for the Northern Ireland protocol.
‘Freedom’ at any cost – Being a Clinically Vulnerable family has left us invisible.
COVID-19 in the UK – Power, expert complicity, and the manufacture of inevitability.
Most COVID deaths in England now are in the vaccinated – Here’s why that shouldn’t alarm you.