We are hit by the effects of Covid 19, which has subsided for the moment, but it has very not gone away. We have to face a stupendous economic challenge of the biggest recession in three hundred years. We are thundering down the track to a no deal Brexit. So we need all the friends […]
The latest miss-step of the Boris campaign (government is not really the right word) is that the daily death rate is found to be so badly wrong that the information has been withdrawn pending the outcome of another irritating ‘review’. Our problem is that ministers are at sixes and sevens over a wide range of […]
Public Services and Frontline Workers During the unique (thus far) pandemic emergency it has been striking and heartening to witness how ordinary frontline workers, not just in the NHS, have kept going, at varying levels of personal risk, to keep the fabric of our integrated and civilised society working. The NHS staff, right at the […]
According to most reports the answer appears to be yes, with both businesses and the public careful to stick to the rules. As expected a small minority abandoned social distancing as the booze began to flow. That resulted in general overcrowding of streets and public spaces in some areas. This may lead to a spike […]