Why the Hallett Inquiry should be halted now

Let’s stop wasting money in media circuses and engage in science.

After a few months of the Hallett pantomime, we are quite clear what the Inquiry is not about -  evidence-based policy.

The obsequiousness to modellers, distortions of the precautionary principle, character assassinations, Teflon flip flops and swear words are ample evidence that the UK taxpayers are being taken for a ride.

Next time will be worse: the precedent for depriving citizens of their civil rights, abandoning the elders and muzzling entire populations on the basis of no evidence and no real expertise has been set.

We have received many public and private messages of support, and we think the time has come to stop the media circus and get down to answering why evidence was ignored, why gaps were filled with models and Hancockisms and why we did not fill the evidence void with clinical trials designed to answer urgent questions. We still have time, and that is what we should be doing now, not tomorrow, but now. To paraphrase the head of WHO: test, test, test. Dr Tedros was referri…