Are we going to have another COVID wave?
This is a critical moment for the country when it enters a season that infection rates shoot up: schools return, holiday makers return to the office, and rules have been relaxed.
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Vaccine Passports – ID no one wants
When there is so much goodwill from the UK population in getting vaccinated, in that over half the population is already vaccinated, in that the infection rate and death rate are both down to a safe level, and staying there despite the return of the lockdown and a third wave in Europe, why then impose a freedom of restriction that is both unpopular and undemocratic?
Granta 154: I’ve been away for a while – Remembering our mortality
With reportage and memoir for the industrial revolution, cholera, and coronavirus pandemic and fiction about a wandering father this was an inconsistent edition but with enough to justify it.
The need for debate
It has been clear for a while this government is not going to admit any mistakes with this COVID pandemic, probably out of hubris. Few governments have managed this crisis well so that is not the issue. What is important…
Hair and Beauty: how the Government decimated a £28 billion industry
Why the Beauty sector was tragically ignored by the Government during the pandemic. In the Daily Telegraph’s Lost Britain Closed BusinessesLost Britain Closed Businessesseries it features an article on the impact of the pandemic on the Beauty Sector. Having been…
Maurice Glasman: how the fates abandoned Boris
Maurice Glasman in his article in Unherd “how the fates abandoned Boris” nails the blindspot Labour suffered from in the last election”: the Tories understood that the long-term disaffection of Labour’s heartland voters with globalisation and abandonment combined with the…