Middle Ground, or Illusion? A review of Mark Woolhouse’s The Year The World Went Mad Mark Woolhouse is Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh. He was a member of two high-level government advisory bodies throughout the pandemic: the UK’s SPI-M (Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling…

The Great Barringtons and the fantasy of ‘focused protection’ The Great Barrington Declaration, named after the New England town in which it was launched in October 2020, is the most substantial challenge to the policy of ‘lockdowns’ as the dominant public health response to the Covid pandemic. The Declaration was…

The Great Barringtons & the Threat Posed by Covid-19 As the Covid-19 pandemic moves, with the help of vaccines, into an endemic phase in some parts of the world, while continuing to rage in others, there is much debate over the most appropriate response. At the same time inquiries are…

Spiked-Online and Covid John Gillott In a recent article, Brendan O’Neill, editor of Spiked-Online, mounted a defence of the publication’s record on Covid, ‘We Must Never Surrender to the New Normal’. Spiked has, he argued, “been smeared and demonised”; branded deniers. We must never surrender to the New Normal Covid poses a serious threat to humankind. So does the culture of fear. This lockdown feels different to the first one…www.spiked-online.com