Although it must be remembered that the UK is still carrying out more tests than many other countries.
Closing hospitality and leisure businesses at 10pm would result in a wave of redundancies.
And with 300,000 users downloading Northern Ireland’s app, it’s unclear to the public why England’s equivalent is taking so long.
Most Tory MPs will be seeing large increases in the housing targets for their seats, while many Labour MPs see their local targets reduced.
Cases, which can fluctuate, are often used as the sole measure of a country’s success in fighting Covid-19. But that’s wrong.
In the weeks before recess, trans rights activists became more vocal in their efforts to stop Truss’s reform of the Gender Recognition Act.
With VJ Day approaching, we should never lose our pride in our shared military history and of our contribution to the vanquishing of tyranny.
Only a small portion don’t care at all about the Union – but a sizeable minority now view it as less important as other political goals.
While it’s important to focus on the ‘R’ rate in tackling covid, we must also balance health concerns against two other Rs – recovery versus recession.
That Johnson’s recent visit was reported as though he were a Governor-General of Imperial India touring the North-West frontier is a bad sign.
Localism gives a nod to our wonderfully diverse culture and traditions, and encourages faster solutions to problems.
If the UK government is to succeed in stamping its mark through direct investment, it will need to channel the zeal usually reserved for an underdog.
A limited suspension is one thing, lasting change would be another. And so often, nothing is so permanent as the temporary.
The best protection for the latter would be Government-guaranteed hardship loans.