Boris Johnson apparently described the Treasury as a ‘pro-death squad’ during the course of the Covid period according to notes made by Sir Patrick Vallance,
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Did people die from Covid because of the power of populist politics?
In the context of the Covid inquiry, I have had my attention drawn to a paper in the British Medical Journal entitled ‘How covid-19 spreads:
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Did the over-50s never pick up where they left off after Covid lockdowns?
As the Guardian reports this morning: The pandemic has caused sustained harm to the brain health of people aged 50 or over, rapidly speeding up
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How many lives would have been improved in 2020 if No. 10 had been more woke?
I listened to the evidence given by Helen MacNamara, the former deputy cabinet secretary who was in office as the Covid crisis developed, given to
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Without the combination of skills and conviction that leadership requires Downing Street failed us in 2020
The Covid inquiry goes on. I am under no illusion that Lee Cain and Dominic Cummings, who gave evidence yesterday, are objective witnesses. They might
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Is Cummings being trolled?
As The Guardian notes this morning: After four months of hearings, the official Covid inquiry reaches a week of hugely significant and potentially damning testimony,
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It’s time the government really woke up to the renewed threat from Covid
As the FT notes this morning: Health authorities in England are bringing forward the latest Covid-19 booster vaccination programme to counter a potentially dangerous sub-variant
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The Tories are willing to put lives at risk again so keen are they to cover up their Covid mismanagement
The Guardian appropriately reports this morning that: Covid vaccines should be made available for people to buy privately in Britain, leading scientists have urged, amid
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The government had to make a choice as to who would survive Covid. The choice was people or financial services. It made the wrong choice.
I wrote this tweet in November 2020, looking forward to what I imagined would be a world post Covid: Three things will bring businesses down
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