This suggests you have not read the report. It does not say civil servants are all wonderful. It goes into some detail about how decisions were made. (View Post)

Read the Inquiry report. The suggestion that the “government broadly did the right thing in the face of huge uncertainty” is debunked. The 2 big problems are… A. Everyone’s going around ringing alarm… (View Post)

Immunity to subsequent waves was limited. If we’d all been infected by May 2020, the sick would have completely overwhelmed NHS capacity and lots of people would have been dying at home who would oth… (View Post)

The report does go into that in some detail. (View Post)

I'd've spent the £200 million on a more academic study (but I'm an academic and want a £200M budget). Getting access to records and witnesses was crucial, but that's not what causes expense. A lot of… (View Post)