"However, an email discovered recently shows Dr Jayaram had previously told colleagues that Letby herself had contacted him for help, leading the MP Sir David Davis to call for a perjury investigation." .Peter Hitchens telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/0…

"Letby evidence 'fails on all counts'" "A briefing document which examines some of the evidence around the Letby case was leaked to X this week…[authored by] doctors, professors, statisticians, and research fellows among others." bailiwickexpress.com/news-ge/letby-…

Think someone needs to search Dewi Evans’ house for the hoard of sensitive medical notes he evidently still has, despite no longer being appointed as ‘expert’ on the #LucyLetby case 👀 ⁦Cheshire Police⁩ telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/0…

After an exchange on X yesterday, I'm re-posting a piece I wrote in 2014 on knowledge, when first concerns about 'mastery' and 'knowledge-rich' in English teaching emerged & I raised the question about what's significant knowledge in the subject. englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/knowledge…

"HMRC is examining transactions that took place as a result of the PPE deal and that are thought to involve both UK and offshore entities - 'Ayanda' failed to pay large sums owed." thetimes.com/article/960447…

Hand-over notes in your home aren't strange in a medical environ especially if you're a nurse but it is odd that Dewi Evans still has these sensitive medical notes. .Peter Hitchens

"This isn't about the BBC, it's about the entire social milieu in which smugness and certainty have triumphed over curiosity and humility." -- Konstantin Kisin

.Peter Hitchens

While surveying the furred surfaces of my study, I often recall Quentin Crisp’s fine observation that “dust is peace”.

Astonishing scenes from the BBC News (UK) meeting with Tim Davie and Samir Shah. * Chairman sait it was disrespectful to suggest board wasn’t upholding BBC values, causing widespread fury * Explained the week long delay in commenting on The Telegraph leak was because of need to check

.Peter Hitchens

.Peter Hitchens - recent update published on the Thirlwall Inquiry URL reads: "The inquiry has written to core participants with an update on the timetable for the final report. Work on the report is ongoing&publication is scheduled for after Easter 2026." liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/uk-world-…

"He D.Lammy) leaned so far over the despatch box to do his yelling that at one point he was bent at an angle of 45 degrees, waving his bottom in Bridget Phillipson’s face." -- Madeline Grant spectator.co.uk/article/david-…

.Peter Hitchens -- idiosyncratic, we truly do reside in "Alice Through the Looking Glass" times.

Labour urgently requires a new vision to ignite major foreign investment to stimulate growth & to counter the buoyant populism of the right. Something totally opposite to the macroeconomic self-harm imposed on the nation by both Reform & Conservative parties.

"Many of the BBC’s well-heeled allies, however, appear to have no interest in engaging with what our exposé uncovered – whether on Trump, trans, Israel or anything else. They prefer to squawk indignantly about supposed Tory plots and conspiracies." telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/1…

.Peter Hitchens - Mark McDonald, Lucy Letby’s barrister said: “Dr Bohin’s importance cannot be underestimated. She was instrumental to the prosecution case at Lucy’s trial and she is critical to the ongoing police inquiry.” telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/1…

In my 32nd Private Eye column about Lucy Letby, I explain how the system is almost designed to generate confirmation bias and unsafe convictions. The combination of an adversarial legal system and very poor quality control an of expert witnesses, with no obligation to get