Steve Powis said in Sunday’s press briefing that scale of deaths outside hospital won’t be known for some time, but ONS already reported a figure almost 25% higher than government’s […]
Health Secretary claims ignorance of the fact – but could only say ‘some nurses’ have died Health Secretary Matt Hancock’s appearance on last night’s BBC Question Time led to the […]
BBC cut to the weather forecast in the middle of last night’s coronavirus press conference As the SKWAWKBOX reported last night, the BBC abruptly cut to the weather forecast just […]
Hospitals have said government is under-reporting The UK’s daily coronavirus death toll has leaped to 563 for the last 24 hours, up by 48% on the previous day. The government’s […]
Johnson may claim to have u-turned on his ‘take it on the chin’ stance – but New Zealand’s Labour PM says she never considered it for a moment New Zealand’s […]
Government is not telling us the facts The latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) release of UK mortality figures has revealed government under-reporting of coronavirus deaths. The ONS figures show […]
UK insiders say government not including non-hospital deaths in its reporting The BBC has reported at length this morning on the failings of European governments on the coronavirus crisis – […]
Original expiry dates still clearly visible under hastily-attached new labels The government’s much-vaunted delivery of personal protective equipment (PPE) is finally arriving in the hands of some NHS staff – […]
Programme understating scale of misreporting On Sunday evening, Channel 4 News revealed a message sent out to staff at King’s Hospital advising that the hospital – and others in London […]
UK’s ‘good result’ of 20,000 deaths would mean 128 times more deaths per head of population than China saw An attempt by a mainstream broadcaster to downplay the number of […]