Author Archives: David Waltham

The Cummings Affair – we’ll know in just over a week whether it mattered

Dominic Cummings famously declared that he didn’t care about appearances — he’d stuck to the letter of the law and that’s all that matters. It sounds like an unsympathetic insurance company wriggling out of a claim but I’m prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt because the real issue, for me, is that appearance do matter. And we’ll be able to tell in about a week’s time whether I’m right.

When “government scientist”, Neil Ferguson, and Scotland’s chief medical officer, Catherine Calderwood were exposed for flouting lockdown regulations they immediately understood …

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