WILL THERE be any real justice from the public inquiries into Covid-19 and the government responses? It is becoming increasingly difficult get a positive answer to this question as the state of the public inquiries reveals huge disparities in their approach and levels of competence. We have written about the UK-based inquiry here before, explaining …
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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 …
IT DID NOT take long for another Cabinet Minister with responsibilities during the Covid Lockdowns to volunteer fresh revelations about the chaos in government at the time. First it was Rishi Sunak, now it is Grant Shapps – who has criticised the decision-making process that brought about the UK lockdowns, while Liz Truss has said …
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WE HAVE all known that it was only a matter of time, eventually the truth would out and the chaos, cynicism, fear, self-preservation and hypocrisy around the decisions to introduce lockdowns would percolate up to the surface from the deep dark intestines of the Downing Street operation where they lurked. The interview of Rishi Sunak …
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LOVE HIM OR LOATHE HIM, if Tony Blair is anything he is the perfect weathervane for what the establishment he now is a card-carrying member of is planning next. When Tony Blair speaks you can expect to hear what he has said being advocated by other politicians or influential commentators within the month. Be it …
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THE OVERLONG ballot of Conservative Party members for its leadership and eventual confirmation of the new Prime Minister has been quite revealing. With both candidates claiming they would not reintroduce lockdowns in the face of a future pandemic it is fair to say that they are signing-up to a perceived consensus that the bans on …
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Last Friday evening Conservative leadership candidates Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss participated at a hustings in Eastbourne. Our East Sussex correspondent Nigel Jacklin went along as an observer to hear what the candidates had to say and whether they would provide answers to any of our six questions. A Beautiful Day IT WAS A beautifully sunny day …
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FACE MASKS worn as a protection from the SARS-CoV-2 virus make life harder for the 11 million people in the UK who have some level of deafness. Further, the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) has pointed out that it is not only the deaf who struggle: those people with aphasia, autism, dementia or learning …
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