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The populations most at risk of severe COVID-19, older and vaccinated early, may need to receive a booster jab earlier than expected because their prot…

Jun 10

How the government awarded contracts to private companies during the coronavirus pandemic, why it matters, and... will we ever know the truth?

May 13

A journalist’s investigation has exposed illegal social dinners that are making a mockery of the strict coronavirus measures in France. An insult to al…

Apr 5

For its vaccination programme, the government has put it all on NHS blue at the Covid roulette table. Although the vaccine rollout has been a success s…

Mar 22

Victory for freedom and democracy as the abhorrent Police & Crime Bill is finally delayed in Parliament by the government.

Mar 19

Fact-checking Children’s Minister Vicky Ford’s claim that it is not reckless to reopen all UK schools in the same week because parents and teachers are…

Mar 8

By telling us last week that 1% is all that they can afford to pay the exhausted heroes who saved our lives, who looked after our families and friends,…

Mar 7

The government’s strategy not to share a single vaccine dose with the rest of the world until its own entire adult population gets the jab is nothing b…

Mar 4

As we hopefully move a step closer to ending the coronavirus pandemic, our leaders and we must resist the voices of division who care for nothing but t…

Feb 23

Why Boris Johnson must resist the pressure by libertarians of all types and stripes to lift all Covid-19 lockdown restrictions early. You may have seen…

Feb 18

More than 15 million people in the UK have now received their first dose of a Covid vaccine. Extraordinary news that must be celebrated... with some im…

Feb 15

While the UK Government plays games to see one of the most iconic Franco-British companies crash in the middle of a pandemic, Eurostar employees are le…

Feb 13

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