If the hype is to be believed we are are at tipping point. There is no doubt that Covid cases are coming down, even if
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Why is the government denying us the Covid-19 data that we really need?
I heard the UK government celebrating that it had given single doses of vaccine to 15 million people yesterday, and that it intended to deliver
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We have to relearn the importance of time
It’s been easy to be lost in the present during lockdown. The immediacy of news on cases, deaths, and political failings in the face of
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The Bank of England should stop broadcasting the views of a comfortable financial elite
The Guardian reports on comments from Andy Haldane, Chief economist at the Bank of England, this morning, noting: British families are ready to fuel a
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When will we need to discuss Jubilee as part of the post-Covid recovery?
As The Guardian has noted this morning: Britain’s economy faces a long haul back from the third coronavirus lockdown as new figures show that businesses
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Why we don’t need tax increases now
There are growing calls for tax increases to ‘pay for coronavirus’. But as I argue in this video, not only has coronavirus already been paid
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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
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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The CBI is right: we need some serious economic planning
A week or so ago one of the commentators on this blog asked if I might suggest now to be the time for a 1945
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Why isn’t vaccine manufacturing being put on a war footing?
I posted this on Twitter last night: If we are short of vaccines why aren’t AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Moderna letting other drug companies manufacture their
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