
Robert Halfon: I’m not a lockdown sceptic. But I am a “school-down” sceptic – and fear the impact of these closures.
The Government needs to provide an educational route map out of Coronavirus for schools and colleges – so that they can prepare.
The Government needs to provide an educational route map out of Coronavirus for schools and colleges – so that they can prepare.
The second piece in a mini-series on climate change, COP26 and the environment on ConservativeHome this week.
The Prime Minister seems to be mulling some school re-openings pre-Easter. But how long will it last and who can really be sure?
Here is a politician educated at Sandhurst and on active service with the Scots Guards in Northern Ireland, not by reading PPE at Oxford.
He’s doing a “fantastic job”; timetables for ending lockdown are “not particularly realistic”; claims that Johnson relishes it are “ridiculous”.
The first piece in a mini-series on climate change, COP26 and the environment on ConservativeHome this week.
Our five year electoral cycle is driving MPs to compete for short-term green subsidies without questioning the medium-term consequences.
It’s striking that the countries that did best during Covid are those, like Taiwan and South Korea, which live under threat of annihilation by their neighbours.
We have to ask whether high bed occupancy rates in the NHS are tilting the balance between efficiency and resilience in the wrong direction.
The recent bias in Downing Street against putting the Work and Pensions Secretary up for press conferences and big media shows is inexplicable.
The Government’s plan may mean a change from the Court to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council – widening the set of judges who sit.
Advocates of every hoary old reform would immediately set to work arguing that the Union could be saved by their One Weird Trick.
Any new system should direct incentives towards rewarding those who step down to retirement accommodation and those cared for by their descendants.
The former Glasgow MP is now, astonishingly, Governor of Punjab, while his son is getting ready to attempt the revival Scottish Labour.
Plus: Where have Allegra Stratton’s live press conferences got to? And why I hate Twitter.