There is a popular narrative that Covid has gone away. Except it has not: 25,700 excess deaths in the UK in half a yr (on
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Coronavirus on this blog, in retrospect
In the light of discussions over the weekend in comments on this blog I reviewed my comments on coronavirus since March 2020. I created a
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Cameron and Osborne’s austerity agenda failed the UK
Amongst those on whom the Covid inquiry will shine a spotlight are David Cameron and George Osborne. The question they will be asked is whether
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The Treasury should be on Covid trial alongside Johnson and Sunak
As The Observer notes this morning: Rishi Sunak is facing a barrage of criticism in the run-up to the official Covid-19 inquiry as a leading
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Why isn’t Sunak being examined in the way Philip Schofield is?
Philip Schofiekd’s career unwound this week. That has remarkably little impact on most people. Morning television on ITV and Skating on Ice were not most
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What is Sunak so desperate to hide?
I set out the legal arrangements surrounding the demand fur data made of the government by Lady Hallett, the former judge who is now heading
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Accountability is at the core of good government. The Covid inquiry has already proved that the Tories do not know that.
The government has got itself into a complete mess over the Covid inquiry. There is no one to blame but itself. As I noted yesterday,
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Tory ministers responsible for tens of thousands of deaths have to be held accountable
As I noted on this blog in 2020 and 2021, the management of the Covid epidemic was a tale of unmitigated disaster in the UK.
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Three years on Covid denial is still killing us
I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: It’s hard to believe that three years ago few people had heard of Covid, and fewer still
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