ToryDiary

Employers and employees are voting with their feet on the matter. What is there to do but accept the situation?

With the NHS in no danger of collapse, and lower hospitalisation and death rates, test-and-trace, not lockdowns, must take the strain.

Almost two in five of our panel members think that our national interests are usually aligned. And one in four think they’re aligned – full stop.

That’s the fourth successive drop. The Government’s rating mirrors it. The Chancellor’s rating is essentially unchanged.

Clearly the Government’s model is flawed. But there is no perfect formula for solving this crisis.

The coronavirus press conferences gave us a glimpse of what a government agenda built around one-upping the evening news will look like.

Downing Street’s soft power alliance to help constrain China would support and project common values.

America’s Constitution is remarkable not because it produces a stream of great Presidents, but because it survives the election of so many bad ones.

Anyone else would have known that vandalising the Last Night of the Proms would provoke a furious reaction.

The Corporation has lost its grip on its Reithian inheritance – which, for all his criticism of the BBC, the former Telegraph editor understands.

The outgoing Director General will struggle to sell the Corporation as the ‘voice of the nation’ if it develops an allergy to patriotism.

It needs snappier messages – and non-politician messengers, especially if there are lockdowns when winter comes.

The Prime Minister does not need to oversee every detail of the government himself – trapping politicians in Westminster will only burn them out.

For all the Government’s devaluing reputation for competence, the party hasn’t yet shaken off the Corbyn era legacy.

The permanent crisis of the May years is not what holding the Government to account normally looks like.