2021 February 07

The Bank of England has to be subject to political accountability. For it to be otherwise is a threat to the very core of our democratic process.

Posted on February 7 2021

Andrew Bailey delivered one of his usual speeches that included little link to reality on Friday. He began by saying: It is fast approaching twenty
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If we don’t see a ‘vaccine effect’ soon the delay in second does vaccines will be the next government policy failure on coronavirus

Posted on February 7 2021

Chris Giles at the FT and I are not always known for agreeing with each other, but he is clearly onto something with this thread:
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Doctors are suggesting our politicians might be committing social murder and the press does not notice. How does that happen?

Posted on February 7 2021

The British Medical Journal published an editorial a few days ago under the title: Covid-19: Social murder, they wrote—elected, unaccountable, and unrepentant Written by Kamran
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Brexit was the wrong answer to a question that did not exist

Posted on February 7 2021

I struggle with a conversation with someone who clearly thought Brexit was justified by differing reactions to the coronavirus crisis last week, and that all
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