Dominic Cummings

“The NHS is Going to be Smashed in Weeks”, Cummings’s Data Geek Told Boris – on the Day Infections Peaked in London

The claim, repeated by Dominic Cummings to MPs yesterday, that without a lockdown in March 2020 "the NHS is going to be smashed in weeks" is demonstrably false. Infections were declining even as the words were spoken.
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Cummings Claims That Government’s Original Plan Was ‘Herd Immunity by September’

On 15 March last year, Matt Hancock said, "We have a plan ... Herd immunity is not part of it." Now Dominic Cummings claims that "herd immunity by Sep" was "literally the official plan in all docs/graphs/meetings".
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Mad Monk’s Latest Attack on Boris Relies on Naive Faith in Lockdowns

Dominic Cummings's latest attack on Boris relies on a naive faith in lockdowns. In fact, Boris was right to resist calls for a 'circuit breaker' last autumn and right to push back against calls for a second lockdown.
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Emily Maitlis is No Media Hero: She Simply Forgot What She and the BBC Are There To Do

The wrong conclusions are being drawn about Emily Maitlis’s comments on Dominic Cummings on the BBC flagship Newsnight show this week. Her remarks are not evidence of her courage, or that journalists are being gagged, or that the BBC is suddenly capitulating to the government.
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One Rule for Me and Another for Everyone Else: The Cummings Coronavirus Factor

Leaving crises to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s management skills will never disappoint those who favour chaos and the attractions of vague direction.  The double standard is to be preferred to the equal one.  With the United Kingdom sundered by death and the effects of COVID-19 (the PM himself having had his battle with the virus), the population was hoping for some clarity.  When, for instance, would the lockdown measures be eased?