From Lockdown to Loneliness | COVID-19 and the Drift Toward Authoritarianism

Lockdown: Five Years On Five years ago, we were at the start of the COVID-19 lockdown. I don’t think anyone is throwing an anniversary party. Boris Johnson’s speech announcing a temporary lockdown was broadcast on March 23, 2020, and came into effect on the 26th. I watched it in the pub, knowing already that I … Read more

Is the UK doing better than the EU at managing Covid | Does history repeat itself?

This is the current position with death rates between the EU and the UK. As we can see we are currently doing incredibly well reducing the numbers of deaths, numbers are falling much faster here than in the EU. This is mainly due to the strict lockdown rather than the vaccine, although we can expect … Read more

How Matt Hancock broke the law | And why it matters

Matt Hancock was found this week to have broken the law by failing to publish the details of contracts awarded without competition for goods and services such as personal protective equipment (PPE) needed during the covid-19 pandemic. This is the first of a series of Judicial Reviews by an eccentric group of lawyers called The … Read more

Did Brexit help Britain succed at vaccinations? | How the UK went from the worst performing country in Europe to the best

Did Brexit help Britain succeed at Vaccinations? Did it help us do better than the EU? No. Britain’s success on vaccination has nothing to do with Brexit, not matter how many flags people wave Britain performed catastrophically badly on Covid in 2020 because the Government put their mates in charge of it, who outsourced it … Read more