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‘Eat Out to Help Out’ Scheme ‘Epidemiologically Illiterate’ As Sunak Failed to Consult Scientists, New Report Reveals
While the Chancellor avoided consulting experts, other ministers used them as scapegoats – as chaos reigned in Downing Street, a damning new report into the pandemic suggests
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UK ‘Mega Lab’ Cut Working Hours Last Week Amid ‘Shortages’
Byline Times understands that one of the UK’s largest ‘Lighthouse’ labs was forced to scale down its operation last week, despite surging demand
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£66.7 Million Birmingham Nightingale Hospital Has Admitted No Patients in Eight Months
Sam Bright reports on how Birmingham’s flagship facility has been free of patients since Prince William opened the hospital in April
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Pregnant and on the COVID Frontline
Frontline NHS doctor Meenal Viz reflects on a momentous year – in which she gave birth to her first child and took on the Government over its lack of protection for healthcare workers during the Coronavirus pandemic
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Wealthy London Areas With Low COVID Case Rates Included in Rapid Testing Programme
Westminster and the City of London are among the areas receiving lateral flow tests, despite having relatively low case rates, reports Sam Bright
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Britain Can’t Put All its COVID Eggs in the Vaccine Basket
Adam Hamdy argues that the Government is mistaken in its belief that a vaccine alone will allow life to return to normal
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Boris Johnson’s Excuse for Bad Government
Under the cover of seemingly generous economic policies, the Government has eroded the rights of vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 pandemic, says Sam Bright
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Rewarding Failure: NHS Whistleblowers Let Down by Trusts Selected for Accolades
Stephen Colegrave investigates the shortlist for a prestigious healthcare whistleblowing award and finds serious shortcomings in those picked for the prize
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Dispelling Disinformation: If COVID-19 Doesn’t Kill the Young and Fit, Why Can’t We Just Ignore It?
NHS Consultant David Oliver dissects some of the dangerous and dismissive arguments pushed by lockdown sceptics and Covid-denialists
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Completed COVID Care Home Tests Flown 300 Miles for Results
‘Test and trace’ chaos forced the Government to fly care home swabs from Bournemouth to Belfast, new documents reveal
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Frontline Workers Failed By Wasteful, Inefficient £15 Billion PPE Procurement Effort
The majority of protective equipment bought by the Government still hasn’t arrived, the National Audit Office has revealed
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Hidden Trauma: Accident and Emergency Nurse Reveals Abuse of Disabled by Family Carers
Stephen Colegrave speaks to an Accident and Emergency nurse who has witnessed the unreported abuse of vulnerable people
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COVID-19 Testing Chaos Forced Almost Half a Million Tests to be Processed Abroad
Amid a backlog in domestic labs, the UK shipped tests to the United States, Italy and Germany for analysis, Sam Bright reveals
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Extreme Anti-Abortion Group’s New ‘Missional Network of Pregnancy Support’ Revealed
Sian Norris reports on plans for the provision of new services by a group which links abortion with Satanic Ritual Abuse, believes delaying abortion decisions is justified, and links it to suicide
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Up to £1.1 Billion in Government PPE Contracts Awarded to Firms Linked to Religious Sect
Byline Times and The Citizens have discovered dozens of deals awarded to firms with apparent ties to a little-known Christian group
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Government’s Rushed, Biased Procurement Process Exposed by Spending Watchdog
A new National Audit Office report – which found that the Government established a ‘high-priority’ lane for PPE suppliers with political links – does little to dispel the notion of cronyism at the heart of the Boris Johnson administration, explains Sam Bright
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The Government’s COVID response is Mired in Anti-EU, Anti-Public Sector Bias and Corruption
The Boris Johnson administration’s ideological decision-making is putting lives at risk, argues Mike Buckley
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Health Ministers’ COVID-19 Meetings with Conservative & Vote Leave Allies Revealed
MP alleges ‘special treatment’ as two former Vote Leave chiefs were drafted in by Matt Hancock’s department, reports Sam Bright
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Why the UK Could be the Source of the Next Pandemic
Intensive chicken farming in the UK is generating dangerous new viruses, reports Claire Hamlett
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What I Learnt About the Great Procurement Scandal: Building ‘My Little Crony’
Sophie Hill explains how she found the Conservative Party, Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings at the centre of her vast interactive map of Government contracts
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£119 Million COVID-19 Testing Contract Awarded to Four-Month-Old DNA Analysis Firm
A company incorporated on 18 May was awarded a huge Government contract to ramp-up Coronavirus testing, reports Sam Bright
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‘Unproven, Expensive’ NHS Digital Plans Criticised by MPs
MPs warn that billions of pounds could be wasted by the opaque tech-focused arm of NHS, reports David Hencke
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‘Informal Arrangements’ Used for Government PPE Procurement, Says Health Minister
Lord James Bethell’s comments appear to validate leaked documents revealing an expedited system of the awarding contracts to “high profile contacts” of the Boris Johnson administration
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Truth was the First Casualty of the Pandemic
Byline Times’ chief medical officer John Ashton looks at the tragic consequences of a lack of transparency – the first rule of public health
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Visit Wales to See what a Public Health Tracing System Looks Like
he Coronavirus crisis has established the realities of devolution more clearly in the public mind than any other issue, says Leighton Andrews
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Why Is ‘Test and Trace’ Still Failing?
Failed leadership, an abandoned public health system and a preoccupation with private sector involvement have all resulted in problems with COVID-19 testing, says Mike Buckley
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The Government’s Inept Pandemic Communications Read like a Manual for Failure
Acute hospital consultant David Oliver considers how the Boris Johnson administration has constantly undermined its own plans to tackle COVID-19
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‘High Profile’ Government Contacts Given Priority in PPE Procurement, Leaked Documents Reveal
Questions should be asked about “whether politically connected ‘VIPs’ benefitted from lucrative inside information”, says the director of the Good Law Project, which was handed the documents
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Outsourcing Giant Paid £1,800-A-Day for Test and Trace Role
The Government shelled out £120,250 for a senior Test and Trace consultant to work for 66 days, Sam Bright reveals
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Flattening the Curve of COVID Conviction
Byline Times’ Secret Scientist finds that science is being abused as much in the second wave of COVID-19 as it was in the first
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Snatching Milk: Boris Johnson Has Picked the Wrong Hill to Die On
Boris Johnson has ignored ample guidance from Conservative Party history in resisting calls for an extension of free school meals, explains Tom Wilson
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£40.5 Million in PPE Contracts Awarded to ‘Micro’ Firm
The company has £134,500 assets yet has been awarded contracts worth tens of millions by the Government, reports Sam Bright
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Being Herded into Disaster in a Post-Science World
Without decisive, science-driven policy and clear public health messaging, Britain is condemned to a cyclical cost to life, society and the economy at the hands of COVID-19, argue epidemiologist Deepti Gurdasani and neuroscientist Hisham Ziauddeen
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Business Associate of Government ‘PPE Tsar’ Awarded £300,000 Contract
The man leading the Government’s personal protective equipment (PPE) procurement has seen an internal contract handed to a close business associate
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The Government Tightening Its Belt with the North will Keep Us All in this COVID Chaos
By curtailing the furlough scheme, Rishi Sunak has undermined the trust on which Coronavirus restrictions operate, argues Sam Bright
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COVID-19 and the Second Harrying of The North
Byline Times’ chief medical officer, John Ashton, looks at how the Government has lost popular support for its unequal tier system
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‘Sack Serco’: Why Boris Johnson’s Addiction to Outsourcing Must End
The Government’s strategy of shelling out billions on private sector firms is not working, argues Labour MP Rachel Reeves
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£2.3 Billion of PPE Supplied by Company With Just 25 Employees
The company has supplied a fifth of the Government’s PPE stockpile, yet virtually none of the contracts are publicly available, reports Sam Bright
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Government Dodges PPE Procurement Scrutiny
Boris Johnson’s administration is stubbornly refusing to answer questions from MPs about the PPE procurement scandal, reports Sam Bright
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Did the Right Experts Advise Boris Johnson on how to Tackle COVID-19?
Byline Times’ chief medical officer John Ashton looks at how England has been on the back foot in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic since the first cases were recorded at the end of January
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Koch-Funded PR Agency Aided Great Barrington Declaration Sponsor
The company Emergent Order has provided extensive multimedia public relations support services to a network of climate science deniers bankrolled by the Charles Koch Foundation, Nafeez Ahmed reports
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Cutting the Fringe: The Media is Chasing Clicks Rather Than Reflecting Science
Amplified by the media, fringe scientists are allowed to present simplistic yet dangerously shareable solutions to complex problems, reports Zack King from Independent SAGE
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Government Targeted by Fraudsters and Counterfeiters During First COVID-19 Wave, Insider Claims
HMRC is investigating cases of fraud by health equipment importers, a procurement insider suggests
