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What we already knew about Britain's Covid failures
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What we already knew about Britain's Covid failures

Dominic Cummings spent hours in front MPs giving a seemingly devastating indictment of the government's response to Covid, detailing how they ignored scientific evidence, lied to the British public and actively endangered them. Yet we didn't need Cummings' testimony to know this; the government's failures have been clear from the start of this crisis.

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Britain’s Covid-19 care home cull
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Britain’s Covid-19 care home cull

Deprived of protective equipment and tests, threatened with funding cuts unless they accepted Covid-positive patients from hospital, along with the enforcement of ‘Do not attempt resuscitation’ notices, care homes and their residents have borne the brunt of government policy. This amounts to no less than social murder, one that was a long time in the making.

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