>>Of course if you take that job you risk being hung out to dry in the government supporting press when the government needs to bury bad news. So you'd need to check everything in your past , your families past and probably anyone you know.

Wouldn't it be a bit "the devil made me do it" to suggest his illegal romantic trysts with a climate activist were because government dug up his past and wanted to bury bad news?

Surely the story is that the architect of the lockdowns ought to set an example after insisting that breaching his rules will cost lives?

The second chapter is that his models finally are shaken free for peer review- and poor judgment is encountered there as well.

The lesson for society is that international governments reacted like lemmings to anti-science disguised as science. In this respect, government could not be trusted. They need more supervision, or we need to start electing a different sort of MP less likely to be leap aboard runaway bandwagons and/or brave enough to face the firestorm when you suggest the Imperial College has no clothes.