The Times is a rich source of official government narratives, accepted non-critically and repeated without questioning. We think the best recent example is this piece announcing:

“The UK Health Security Agency will announce plans in the next few weeks to increase surveillance of circulating viruses. The Covid-19 infection survey, which stopped this year, regularly tested a random sample of households, regardless of whether they had symptoms, to determine circulating levels of the virus.

The system is expected to work in a similar fashion but also involve testing samples for more