Commentary The Epoch Times, along with the Spectator Australia, were two of very few media outlets around the world that came out against the lockdowns from virtually day one and never wavered. We knew and argued that these policies were wrong on the data; wrong in principle for any society with a passing commitment to…

The Cabinet wasn’t told during the COVID-19 pandemic about the argument for cutting short the self-isolation period, former minister Jacob Rees-Mogg has said. It comes after The Telegraph reported that England’s Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty told former Health Secretary Matt Hancock as early as November 2020 that taking daily tests for five days would…

Two former heads of the UK’s Vaccine Taskforce said Matt Hancock didn’t understand the process of biological manufacturing after new “Lockdown Files” reports revealed disagreement between Hancock and the vaccines chiefs over COVID-19 vaccines deployment. Hancock reportedly said that Kate Bingham, who headed the taskforce between April and December 2020, was “totally unreliable,” and accused Bingham and her…

The tens of thousands of leaked WhatsApp messages among government ministers and officials during the COVID-19 pandemic highlight the need to update rules around public record-keeping, the UK’s information watchdog said on Friday. Writing in The Telegraph, Information Commissioner John Edwards said the newspaper’s revelation of how decisions were made on WhatsApp showed the need…