Month: January 2021

‘The pandemic seems to be teaching us that no matter how bad you think it is, it can always get worse.’ Professor Christina Pagel is interviewed on Sky News about the South African variant of Covid-19, why we need to step up border controls and testing at airports and the need for greater transparency about the UK vaccine strategy. Watch a clip here

‘Is 1 the lowest number I can choose?’ Sir David King’s reply when Becky Anderson of CNN Connect asks him to rate the government’s response to the pandemic on a scale of 1 – 10. Watch a clip here

The government likes to think the public can’t be trusted – but Britain’s experience in 2020 shows the reverse is true, writes psychologist Professor Stephen Reicher in The Guardian. Read full article here