Simon Cook

Why do so many private school students get extra time in exams?

9 November 2024 4:15 am

Are independent schools gaming the system to give a disproportionate advantage to their pupils in exams? That’s one possible inference…

Did lockdown make children overweight?

7 November 2024 10:58 pm

Every year, the government weighs and measures children in Reception (ages 4-5) and Year 6 (ages 10-11). The National Child…

Is staff sickness crippling the NHS?

2 November 2024 1:08 am

Some £22 billion of the £40 billion in tax rises the Chancellor announced this week will go straight to the…

Boosters give 88 per cent protection against hospitalisation

2 January 2022 2:34 am

The good news picture continues to build for Omicron. Late on New Year’s Eve, the UK Health Security Agency released…

Is Omicron now falling in South Africa?

21 December 2021 4:09 am

Man makes Covid predictionsand God laughs. Yet with the stakes this high in Britain, every bit of real-world data is…