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EDITOR’S LETTER

rian Cox made an interesting point. That’s the scientist, rather than Logan Roy. It came in the wake of Patrick Vallance’s testimony at the Covid Inquiry. Vallance, the UK’s chief scientific adviser during the Covid period, laid out problems with Boris Johnson. The former PM found the science around Covid “difficult at times”. It was “a real struggle” to understand the graphs around

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