COVID-19
— Removing ways of tracking and preventing the spread of COVID will lead to more disruption and ill health. The outcome of going “back to normal” is that millions of people will catch COVID each year.
Analysis
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Analysis
— Drive-throughs not only increase air pollution and emissions, but also contribute to a car-centred culture that we need to avoid.
Analysis
— In the UK, there is very little to stop a leader who doesn’t care to comply with unwritten norms.
Analysis
— As household budgets come under strain, so does support for governments, as Boris Johnson should note.
Environment
— Learning from Indigenous cultures to treat animals as more than just food sources could help us combat the climate crisis.
Downing Street Parties
— Sue Gray’s findings present a damning indictment of standards of conduct and the operational culture at the heart of the British government during the lockdown phases of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Downing Street Parties
— The most unacceptable outcome would be if this episode becomes another example of a leader feeling unchallengeable and emboldened as a rule-breaker. A change of leadership is the first and only substantial thing that really matters.
COVID-19 & Schools
— The Education Secretary doesn’t have the power to go over the heads of headteachers and ban the wearing of facemasks in school.
Brexit
— A key rule of politics is that you need to ‘be in the room’ and Brexit Britain isn’t, at least metaphorically and sometimes literally.
Analysis
— If Boris Johnson is not replaced by a new leader, backbench Conservative MPs would be well advised to start brushing up their CVs in preparation for life after Westminster.
COVID-19
— Control measures may be easing in England, but don’t expect the world to return to how it was in January 2020. Cases may be declining, but they are still incredibly high. Already, it’s estimated a million children were off school because of COVID last week.
Brexit
— Partygate doesn’t mean that we’ve seen the end of the populist politics that underpinned and flowed from Brexit, still less of Brexit itself. It may not even mean the end of Johnson, whose fate remains precariously in the balance.
COVID-19
— A freedom of information request is only useful if you know how to read the data. Over 140,000 people with pre-existing conditions have died of COVID in the last two years. We should be mourning this tragic loss of life, not minimising it.
COVID-19 & Schools
— Despite the major challenges lockdown-induced remote learning has presented, teachers, pupils and parents alike have reaped certain benefits. Can school learn from these changes?
Brexit
— As the false claims made about the benefits of Brexit are gradually being found out, Brexit isn’t suffering from a failure to control the narrative. It’s suffering from failure, Professor Chris Grey writes.
COVID-19
— We have quantified how the different influences on transmission change your risk of getting COVID-19. The actual risk will depend on specific parameters.
