Tag: Lockdown

How Dominic Cummings pushed us into lockdown – Part 3

In Part 1 on Tuesday I examined Dominic Cummings’s project for government reform and his operational plan for improving government decision-making in uncertain situations. Yesterday I looked at how his operational plan worked in early 2020, resulting in his Red Team advisers persuading him to support lockdown. In this third and final part I describe how he […]

How Dominic Cummings pushed us into lockdown – Part 2

In Part 1 yesterday I examined Dominic Cummings’s project for government reform and his operational plan for improving government decision-making in uncertain situations. Today I will look at how his operational plan worked in early 2020, resulting in his Red Team advisers persuading him to support lockdown. THE first death attributed to coronavirus in the […]

How Dominic Cummings pushed us into lockdown – Part 1

IT’S FOUR years since the dystopian nightmare of the covid lockdown befell the United Kingdom. The grossly disproportionate measure of putting the entire population under house arrest to prevent encounters with a respiratory infection appears no more rational now than it did then. In re-examining how the government arrived at this draconian decision, it is […]

TCW New Year Reads: The doctor who stood up for the lockdown children

Calling Out The Shots by Eashwarran Kohilathas; ‎ independently published (December 2022)  DURING Covid in 2020, Dr Eashwarran Kohilathas worked in accident and emergency in a busy NHS hospital and at a GP practice, all the while gathering information and asking questions about Covid measures that seemed largely redundant. He also worked in paediatrics and neonatal and in […]

Why We Fight the Church Lockdown

The other day a small (but photogenic) band of protesters gathered in front of our church –St. Andrew’s Cathedral in downtown Victoria—calling for the reopening of church services by the public health authorities, and asserting our rights to worship, assemble and speak. These are all recognized by our Charter of Rights as “fundamental freedoms,” which […]