EXCLUSIVE INVESTIGATION: Some of the same people that noted surgical masks were useless for airborne viruses also made decisions to limit the use of effective respirator masks: a decision that had devastating ramifications when the pandemic struck.
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The current spate of industrial action is the symptom of a deeper malaise revealed by the pandemic: a Government apathetic to the plight of teachers
A government ad campaign poured cash into national newspapers during the pandemic. Byline Times is one of a number of signatories to a submission on the scheme to the COVID Inquiry
A spokesperson for the Covid Inquiry told Byline Times they still did not know when they would be given access to the messages on the former Prime Minister's phone
A new report by the Commons' Public Accounts Committee found that the Government was driven by 'an overriding impetus to buy' PPE during the pandemic – with 'limited' safeguards in place
A new report by a national commission has found that 'systemic racism embedded in the Government’s responses to the pandemic may have worsened outcomes'
Six-in-ten voters don't trust the Government's promise to keep the National Health Service in public hands
A report by the Commons' Public Accounts Committee found that the UK Health Security Agency had no auditable accounts
Today (June 28, 2023), the Australian Bureau of Statistics released the latest – Monthly Consumer Price Indicator – which covers the period to May 2023. On an annual basis, the monthly All Items CPI rate of increase was 5.6 per cent down from 6.8 per cent. There is some stickiness in some of the components…
Austerity, combined with poor policy decisions, left the NHS in a far weaker position by the time David Oliver was caring for his first Coronavirus patient in March 2020