A Covid Reckoning in the U.K.

Thousands of messages from the nation’s health secretary reveal the extent to which British leaders sought to scare, manipulate, and deceive the public.

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The U.K.’s Covid consensus is unraveling. Once established in spring 2020, the narrative that beating the virus required locking down, closing schools, wearing masks, and social distancing went largely unchallenged for three years. Anyone bold enough to ask questions was labeled dangerous.

Two weeks ago, this began to…