Don Firth, I have not agreed with all of Ake's posts, but I have not spotted any slanted statistics from him. Unless you can direct me to some, I will say that you are wrong about that.

Royston has certainly provided skewed statistics, starting with his first Jan 10th post and continuing with his "5 fold increase" posts.
They appeared to show a change in the pattern of infection, but the change was really due to the arrival of thousands of infected and high risk people from sub Saharan Africa.