Herd immunity is a form of indirect protection from infectious disease that occurs when a high percentage of a population has become immune to it, either through vaccination or previous infection. To cause an outbreak, a virus must have a continuous supply of potential victims whose immune system do not know how to fend it … Read more
Last week I gave evidence at the Education Committee’s inquiry into why poor white children do so badly at school. It’s an inquiry that was long overdue. The fact that I was there at all was something of a miracle because I am white and come from a single-parent, working-class family where money was always … Read more
Professor Paul Ewart has also been awarded £30,000 in compensation after he won a landmark age discrimination battle Oxford University has been ordered to re-employ a professor who it illegally forced to quit before his 70th birthday. Professor Paul Ewart has also been awarded £30,000 in compensation after he won a landmark age discrimination battle … Read more
The North of England is bearing the brunt of Britain’s second coronavirus wave because it didn’t squash its first outbreak, the deputy chief medical officer has admitted. Official data shows two thirds of UK hospitalisations from Covid-19 are in Yorkshire, the North East and North West, where swathes are expected to be hit with harsher … Read more
Why we’re all working MORE, and not less: Cambridge professor reveals how technological developments can be a threat to humanity Cambridge professor suggests advances in technology could be detrimental Suggests rise in Britain’s population leads to productivity being cancelled out Says famines, wars & pandemics are ‘imminent & severe correction’ of disorder By Roger Lewis … Read more
A Oxford professor has urged universities in the UK to follow Sweden and pay infected freshers to trace their contacts as at least 32 report Covid cases. Carl Heneghan, professor of evidence-based medicine at Oxford University told the Times newspaper the Government had helped every sector but had ‘clamped down’ on students. The professor said … Read more
Britain is now in grave danger of sleepwalking into a second national lockdown. The consequences of doing so would be disastrous. We find ourselves in this wretched position partly because the Government’s main achievement since the pandemic first emerged in China has not been suppressing the virus or saving lives or the economy, but in … Read more
Professor Chris Whitty is pushing for a new two-week national lockdown amid concerns the true number of coronavirus cases is far higher than being reported, a former World Health Organisation expert claims. Anthony Costello, who sits on the independent SAGE panel, made the statement on Twitter on Wednesday evening, adding that daily infections could be as … Read more
Safety is ‘top of the list’ when it comes to making a Covid-19 vaccine, the professor leading Oxford University’s vaccine group has said. Sarah Gilbert, professor of vaccinology at Oxford, said no corners were being cut when it came to ensuring that a vaccine was safe. Usually the process of making and approving a vaccine … Read more
KAROL SIKORA: It is illogical and merely invites ridicule and disobedience from an increasingly sceptical and weary public Expert advisers have deep and very specific areas of knowledge, but can only offer a selective view of the facts – in this case a recent and modest rise in coronavirus infections in young people – to ministers. … Read more