A more simple truth is that none of them should have ever been even remotely close to power

Or: 'It's Cummings' world and we just live in it'

This page has been keeping an eye on the COVID Inquiry for some time now.

It began earlier this year [in June], and has been taking statements from individuals close to the government’s decision-making, as well as providing context for how it made those decisions. 

Remarkably, based on anecdotal accounts, there are some who did not even know of the COVID Inquiry’s prior existence. If the press and social media coverage over the last week is anything to judge, you'd be forgiven for thinking that when Dominic Cummings gave his testimony, it was the beginning.

It wasn’t. We're up to Module II now for those who didn't know about it before and we have some way to go before it concludes, too. Hopefully, many will stay to watch it and some good may come of this - you can keep watching it here.

Thousands upon thousands of documents, testimonies, scientific papers, studies and evidence can be read here also.

This past week of the Inquiry was especially compelling, however.

Cummings gave an account of mismanagement and incompetence at the highest level. His testimony highlighted, on one hand, just how unprepared the government was for dealing with the pandemic, and on the other, what it did during the period Cummings was in government between December 2019 and November 2020. 

For those who have only just started watching the Inquiry, it was perhaps a good entry point. 

There are numerous challenges with Cummings' account, however.