THE DEMANDS, op-ed commentary and warnings that the UK Government should be ready to impose a lockdown this winter are unrelenting. Defending past decisions to introduce three lockdowns and persist with non-medical interventions or restrictions without any evidence base to support their enforcement is still commonplace. And yet the public can see what is happening …
DURING the Tony Blair era it became common for politicians to tell us they ‘were passionate’ about their chosen issues of the day, a habit which grated upon many of us who try and approach difficult problems in a dispassionate way. Of course, we too are human and often fail to use purely dispassionate thought …
LAST WEEK, as the Conservative leadership election finally came to an end, there was a flurry of articles taking both Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak to task about their criticisms of the use of lockdowns during the Covid-19 pandemic. What was notable was the challenges to Truss and Sunak’s public comments were by Conservative sympathisers …
