This Tweet refers to an exchange yesterday between Lady Hallett, Chair of the Covid Inquiry, and counsel for the Cabinet Office. The video is worth
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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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This is from the Guardian this morning: University Vice Chancellors (who, as a group, are by far the biggest winners from the current system of
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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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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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These four items were all headlines in this morning’s Guardian newspaper business newsletter: In turn we get: The exploitation of a public necessity – water
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The emergence of new allegations that Boris Johnson broke lockdown rules with regard to Covid on many newly discovered occasions does matter. There has been
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The obvious question to ask after this week’s National Conservative conference is how far can hate take the right? It was, after all, the one
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The FT has reported that: To put this in context, there are about 33 million taxpayers in the UK. There is likely to be a
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