The Government’s democracy commission, “legal tools” – and boats of illegal migrants
The nub of the matter is that without changes to the law the entrants will keep coming to Britain.
Iain Dale: Hancock’s claim that care homes were wrapped in “a bubble of care” has a hollow ring to it
Plus: it was down to earth with a bump for Starmer this week at Prime Minister’s Questions – as he failed to think on his feet.
David Goodhart: The virus. It’s almost certain that ethnic minorities are at greater risk. But we can’t yet know the full explanation.
There are three main factors at work – genetics, plus cultural and social factors. And it’s not possible at present to disentangle the mix.
The middle way on free and fair trade (and the only practicable one)
People cannot simply be viewed as consumers or producers – there are other dimensions to policy, including the stewardship of the countryside.
Profile: Munira Mirza, the Muslim from Oldham who leads Johnson’s Policy Unit
The Prime Minister is being urged to employ more women, but here is one who already makes it difficult for him to get away with sloppy thinking.
Garvan Walshe: How Covid-19 is leaving Macron’s left flank exposed
The president has lost his majority during the course of the Coronavirus pandemic. How will it affect his odds at the 2022 election?
Daniel Pryor: Reducing homelessness. Housing First is a liberal approach based on harm reduction. We need more of it
When Crisis is saying the same thing as the Centre for Social Justice and ourselves at the Adam Smith Institute, politicians should listen.
Blood tests at airports, robot microbe killers, and attendants in PPE: How Covid-19 will affect the future of travel
Various new measures are being created to cope with the threat of the virus, with huge ramifications for tourism.
Robert Halfon: The non-Conservatives who are urging a return to schools for our children’s sake
Plus: Don’t force MPs who are sick or shielding back to Parliament, Jacob. And: let’s divert aid money to seek a vaccine.
Luke Evans: The virus – and why the litigation nightmare that haunts our servicemen now also threatens our doctors
Defensive medicine may intellectually go against years of training and logic, but it keeps us legally protected. But it might not work in these wartime conditions.
Bob Seely: What the Isle of Wight has learned from trialling the NHS’s Coronavirus App
If enough of us download this app, we can, through our joint endeavours and the trace and test programme, suppress the virus.
R = Retreat?
The Government has ways of evading commitment to the national reproduction rate of the virus as the determinant of policy.
The Moggcast: The Commons Leader concedes that the Government’s “stay home” campaign may have been “too successful”
But “I don’t think that’s a great fault”. Also: our interviewee on why “Sir Keir, the nervous knight” and the Opposition “like having a hybrid parliament”.
Mark Lehain: The rivalries and Corbynism that are driving the biggest education union’s extremist stance on school reopenings
I’m a former union rep myself – and am finding that schools, empowered by the Gove reforms, are quietly getting on with preparations,
Why the track and trace plan is set to be a long hard slog – with its shifting targets, self-isolation questions and “plough waves”
Rolling out enough tests with enough trackers, and then putting effective self-isolation in place, is very much a process rather than an event.