PETER HITCHENS: Guess where Professor Lockdown got his ideas ... China���s police state

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

One of the strangest things about our recent national madness has been the role of Professor Neil Ferguson, the physicist who has somehow come to dominate Johnson���s Covid policy.

Physicist? Yes, that is his main academic discipline. He doesn���t even have a Biology O-level, as he himself cheerfully admits. But that���s no odder than his repeated record of wild predictions of vast numbers of deaths, for a variety of diseases from foot-and-mouth...