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What did we really learn from Dominic Cummings’s leaked WhatsApps?

7 November 2023

6:00 PM

7 November 2023

6:00 PM

It’ll be years before the Covid inquiry reports back on what we can learn from the pandemic, but already there is one key lesson for us all: don’t write anything on WhatsApp that you wouldn’t want read out in court.

The vividly-phrased WhatsApp messages published, and very memorably read aloud, as part of the inquiry have brought some much-needed mirth to our troubled times.

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