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Russia ‘is researching how to weaponise deadly Ebola virus as part of a catastrophic doomsday project’, experts fear Unit of the FSB spy agency is believed to be researching Ebola and Marburg virus Diseases lead to organ failure and internal bleeding and have caused outbreaks Ex-intelligence insider fears Moscow could be going beyond studying diseases … Read more
Thieves strike Russia’s ‘Doomsday plane’ flying command centre that can survive nuclear war: Crooks steal radio equipment as plane is upgraded Thieves broke into one of Russia’s rare Ilyushin Il-80 Maxdome aircraft on Friday They stole 39 pieces of equipment from the plane in a major security breach The plane was being given an upgrade at … Read more
The Government and its scientific advisers were lambasted today for using ‘dodgy coronavirus data’ to justify a devastating second lockdown. Tory MPs warned SAGE’s doomsday predictions had eerie echoes of the controversial dossier that sent Britain to war with Iraq. It emerged last night a graph claiming England would see up to 1,500 deaths a day by … Read more
Britain is recording fewer than half of the Government’s doomsday prediction of 50,000 cases a day by tomorrow, figures show. Sir Patrick Vallance and Professor Chris Whitty, the country’s chief scientific and medical officers, made the bleak forecast last month as they urged Britons to abide by new lockdown curbs amid rising cases. Speaking at the … Read more
Downing Street was panicked into a full national lockdown after its scientific advisers Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance were given doomsday mortality projections by Imperial College’s Neil Ferguson, an explosive new biography of Boris Johnson by investigative author Tom Bower reveals. Bower tells how a critical meeting of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) … Read more
One of Britain’s top Covid-19 experts has stood by his prediction that half a million people could have died without a lockdown. Professor Neil Ferguson, a former adviser to the Government before he resigned after breaking lockdown rules to meet his married lover, said his early model was actually an ‘underestimate’. Work he produced alongside … Read more
Super-rich Americans have fled to New Zealand to hide out in their luxury bunkers throughout the coronavirus pandemic. Quick-thinking Silicon Valley billionaires booked flights for New Zealand as soon as the COVID-19 crisis began to escalate. A number of executives managed to escape shortly before the country closed its borders to almost all travellers on … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK NOTES FROM AN APOCALYPSE by Mark O’Connell (Granta £14.99, 272 pp) Within the nuttier corners of the internet, not to mention the wild imaginations of the super-rich, the global spread of coronavirus might seem to vindicate long-held fears (or fantasies) about the end of the world as we know it — … Read more
President Donald Trump said Tuesday he had not seen jarring memos drafted by his trade advisor Peter Navarro that warned of catastrophic potential outcomes from the coronavirus. Trump was asked about the memos – which claimed as many as 2 million Americans might die and a full-blown pandemic could cost the economy trillions, while warning … Read more
Ministers are accused of treating Doomsday scientist like demigod: Number 10 has failed to properly challenge the word of coronavirus professor Neil Ferguson whose study sent Britain into lockdown, critics say Professor John Ashton accuses No 10 of relying on a ‘little clique’ of researchers He also accused Downing Street of failing to consult a … Read more