YOU MAY have read reports recently about how the number of those testing positive for Covid-19 and being admitted to hospital have both risen in the last two weeks. Needless to say, this has caused the predictable rush to social media lifeboats and demands that the Government should do more. Most notable was Jeremy Vine, …
Alarmist Jeremy Vine should learn to live with Covid like the rest of us Read More »
I HAVE BEEN having a few days out in the sun recently, going around the shops up Steep Hill in Lincoln. If you don’t know it, the area is populated with independent shops and attractive restaurants and bars – but it is indeed a very steep hill that takes you from the bustling main shopping …
Business ghosts of the pandemic will haunt our economy for years yet Read More »
YESTERDAY the growth figure for the UK’s GDP in April was published and showed a fall by 0. 3% after a fall of 0.1% in March. Immediately commentators (and social media in particular) rushed to abuse the government. Fair enough, that’s politics and so all the old hobby-horses were trotted out. It’s the “cost-of-living crisis …
How the April fall in UK GDP is related to the pandemic response Read More »
OF ALL THE TRULY bizarre suggestions to come out of the recent no-confidence vote in the prime minister the most ridiculous has to be the proposition that Boris Johnson should build bridges with the critics in his party by making former Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt his Chancellor of the Exchequer. Jeremy Hunt was Britain’s longest serving …
AS NEW PROBLEMS crop up in our return to as near-normal living in the aftermath of Covid-19 there is a new obstacle to holding to account those responsible for the economic and social damage done by lockdowns. Some people are intentionally shifting the blame to the wrong cause. We can see it regularly in the …
FOLLOWING the submission of a public petition calling for a referendum of the British electorate before any treaty committing the country to take instruction under international law from the World Health Organisation on its future response to pandemics, the UK Government has issued its response. Instead of saying it was in listening mode and might …
Seven reasons the Government should NOT sign a WHO pandemic treaty Read More »
THE Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office – run by Foreign Secretary Liz Truss – has responded to the public petition requesting that no treaty should be signed with the World Health Organisation (WHO) without the consent of a national referendum – by rejecting the appeal out of hand. For readers unaware of the petition, it …
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JUST LAST WEEKEND Jeremy Hunt rather made a fool of himself. Going on GB News he had the shameless audacity to claim that had he been Prime Minister he would have avoided Boris Johnson’s lockdowns (essentially by using track and trace – which was not even in place to cope with the tsunami of numbers it would …
Sir Keir Starmer cannot duck his large share of the lockdown blame Read More »
HAVE SOME POLITICIANS never heard of Google? Are there really people in today’s politics who don’t realise we can look-up the internet via things called search engines and find what they and their colleagues have said in the past? Either Jeremy Hunt, former Health Secretary and losing candidate for the Conservative Party leadership in 2019, …
Jeremy Hunt cannot whitewash over his past support for lockdowns Read More »
By Brian Monteith – 5 minute read Here’s a simple question to ask yourself, or your friends and relatives – “After all that you have experienced and witnessed during the last two years of the Covid pandemic do you trust your own government to manage the next pandemic response, if one is required?” I have no …
