As the TES has reported: The education recovery commissioner, Sir Kevan Collins has written to the prime minister Boris Johnson to offer his resignation this
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UK government borrowing in 2020/21 was £19 billion, at most. So where was the economic crisis that prevented lockdown and caused so many deaths? Nowhere to be seen, of course. It was all just dogma.
I was asked yesterday how much of the government deficit in the last financial year was funded by government borrowing, and how much by quantitative
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Will Johnson delay again at the potential cost of tens of thousands of lives?
Three immediate political thoughts occur to me when considering the now very obvious fact that the UK will have a third wave coronavirus crisis. The
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The Covid third wave is coming. It’s time to stop pretending otherwise and to face the questions that need to be asked.
I have been going on for weeks about the fact that the Covid crisis is not over yet, and I am well aware that I
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Inflation? Forget it
There was a time when Andy Haldane was the supposed wise head at the Bank of England. But that was long ago before he got
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The next Covid wave is already appearing: now is the time to act
I am well aware that there are those who think I enjoy being a Cassandra for bad news. I don’t. No one wants bad news.
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The things to be learned from Cummings
News reports suggest that around 80% of people in the UK do not think that Dominic Cummings is a reliable witness. As a result they
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Who has suffered for Covid?
The Office for National Statistics published a report yesterday on the impact on wellbeing of Covid. The review covered March 2020 to April 2021 and
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Nailing the truth twisters down
It is a year since this Tweet was posted on the official UK Civil Service Twitter account: The post did not survive online for long,
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