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Scientific advisers are not blameless in UK’s Covid record

Letters: Bernard Kay says leading scientists have many questions to answer, while Mary Evans is astonished those who attended lockdown parties were not worried about getting Covid

The Guardian - UK

Covid Inquiry: What we learned on Day 3 as plans for a future pandemic branded inadequate

The Covid inquiry will next week hear from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and former prime minister David Cameron, as well as Sir Chris Whitty and former chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance

Daily Mirror

Government WhatsApps about ‘frothy’ coffee orders, not major decisions, former health minister claims

The existence of three key group chats comes ahead of the first hearings of the official inquiry into the government’s handling of the pandemic

The Independent UK

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Magic mushrooms compound ‘effective at treating depression in cancer patients’

Largest ever trial of psilocybin offers hope of treatment to cancer patients with major depressive disorder

Evening Standard

Using psychedelics for depression is exciting area, says ex-vaccines chief

Kate Bingham, who chaired UK’s Covid vaccine taskforce, tells Hay festival she hopes mind-altering drugs could treat mental illness

The Guardian - UK

AI ‘could be as transformative as Industrial Revolution’

UK’s outgoing chief scientist urges ministers to ‘get ahead’ of profound social and economic changes

The Guardian - UK

AI could affect jobs as much as the industrial revolution – Patrick Vallance

Sir Patrick told MPs that AI brings great opportunity but the Government needed to think about the wider impact on society.

The Independent UK

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Drake and The Weeknd AI track goes viral: What does this mean for music?

The rise of AI generated vocals is sparking conversation in the music industry

Evening Standard

Sage warned Independent Sage its name would cause confusion, says Vallance

Chief scientist told former incumbent Sir David King the similarity would lead to mixed messaging

The Guardian - UK

Spring budget 2023: AI announcements hint at data grab behind the scenes

In the area of digital technologies including artificial intelligence (AI), the UK budget can be a barometer of technological development and hype. However, there is a worrying drive towards deregulation in the background – combined with an apparent desire to encourage the rights holders for data to share it with…

The Conversation

2023 Spring Statement brings 'enhanced' tax incentives to tech SMBs

UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt said the government plans to introduce tax incentives for UK-based small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) as part of a broader set of plans to boost the UK's technology sector. Delivering the government's 2023 Spring Statement to the House of Commons on Wednesday, Hunt said the incentives…

IT Pro

Keep scientists in the research room and out of politics

The simple messaging favoured by media advisers doesn’t chime with a discipline that is messy and incomplete

The Guardian - UK

Simon Case’s WhatsApps with Hancock unprofessional, say ex-civil servants

Whitehall chief called travellers being confined to Covid hotels ‘hilarious’, according to leak of chats with former health secretary

The Guardian - UK

Leaked WhatsApps reveal government struggle over Covid ‘sex ban’ advice

The chief medical officer suggested couples were not likely to remain apart during the first weeks of the 2020 lockdown, according to leaked messages

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Evening Standard

Sir Chris Whitty called for ‘realism’ around Covid sex ban, leaked Whatsapps show

The chief medical officer suggested couples were not likely to remain apart during the first weeks of the 2020 lockdown

The Independent UK

Whitty called for ‘realism’ around Covid advice which kept couples apart

The chief medical officer suggested couples were not likely to remain apart during the first weeks of the 2020 lockdown, according to leaked messages.

The Guardian - UK

Did Boris Johnson ‘follow the science’ on Covid? He couldn’t even do the maths

Leaked WhatsApps reveal his ignorance needing constant correction by advisers, says Kit Yates, director of the Centre for Mathematical Biology at the University of Bath

Daily Mirror

Devastated Covid families say Matt Hancock WhatsApp messages 'twist knife' in wounds

Bereaved relatives have told of their fury after Matt Hancock's bombshell texts on testing were leaked. Matt Forest, whose mum died of Covid, said the former Health Secretary 'betrayed' his mother

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The Guardian - UK

Dame Angela McLean to be UK’s first female chief scientific adviser

Professor of mathematical biology to succeed Sir Patrick Vallance after advising MoD and working with Sage during pandemic

The Independent UK

Dame Angela McLean appointed as new Government chief scientific adviser

She will be the first woman to hold the role.

Chronicle Live

Panel rules new disease may have caused sea creature deaths on North East beaches

The official report details how dredging and pyridine were very unlikely to have caused the tragic die-off.

Wales Online

No definite answer to cause of mass crab deaths on north-east coast as experts give their verdict

It had been claimed that work to expand a port in the area had triggered the deaths

Daily Mirror

Chris Whitty warns UK faces 'prolonged period' of excess deaths due to lockdown effects

Sir Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance have published a report of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK, saying if they did not act the way they did "the outcomes would have been significantly worse"

The Independent UK

Sir Patrick Vallance issues warning over net-zero goal

The UK’s chief scientific adviser gave the warning at the Lister Memorial Lecture in Edinburgh.

The Independent UK

Why does This England let Boris Johnson off so lightly?

No Partygate, no dodgy party donors and no sex pests. If only the Covid wards had been as well sanitised as Michael Winterbottom’s dramatisation of Boris Johnson’s pandemic government, writes Sean O’Grady

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