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Expert Medicals, a private company claiming to provide travellers with Covid tests, has been deprived of its coveted place on the Government's website. Profiteering from travellers has been a growth industry for the past three and a half months, yielding some very entrepreneurial returns since Her Majesty's Government ruled that people arriving in England are required to pay private companies for the compulsory tests. Far from giving the rah-rah to this fostering of individual responsibility and enterprising gumption, many travellers have complained of false advertising and unsatisfactory service in the delivery and processing of tests. Certain importunate persons refuse to be mollified even by the provision of a free insult to go with the original injury, in the form of a failure to provide refunds. There is as yet no decision on whether Expert Medicals has broken the law, so the Johnson administration has prudently removed it from the list of official providers until the day when definite proof of incompetence and illegality can hasten its glorious restoration.