Peter Rhodes on jabs, flying taxis and the quest for the truth about Lockerbie

Hang on. Is there any evidence yet that the patients admitted to hospitals with flu are more or less likely to have had the jab than society at large? My sympathies are with people like my wife who has been floored for a fortnight with a flu-like illness, despite having the jab last October. The real scandal may turn out to be not pensioners refusing jabs but the NHS administering millions of vaccines that don't work.

Catherine Swire's sister Flora died in the Lockerbie disaster of 1988, the terrorist outrage examined in the new Sky TV drama, Lockerbie: A Search for Truth. She says she has never met the writer of the series and that the film company refused her request not to be characterised. She alleges the script put words in her character's mouth, distorted her memories of Flora and perpetuated the family's trauma. It has to be said that her campaigning father, Dr Jim Swire, is reportedly pleased with the series. But his daughter's account creates the suspicion that the “search for truth” maybe didn't search hard enough.