
Macron and others played politics with AstraZeneca. The consequences for many EU citizens are fatal.
Some leaders realise the seriousness of the problem. Merkel’s spokesman has pleaded with Germans to take the “safe and highly effective” jab.
Some leaders realise the seriousness of the problem. Merkel’s spokesman has pleaded with Germans to take the “safe and highly effective” jab.
Perhaps the answer is bound up with China – and our inability to focus on more than a single problem at once.
It’s one thing to endure them to prevent people dying, and for a relatively short period of time; quite another because we might return to this situation.
The good news is that if we can break out of our recent rut, the opportunities for post-Brexit Britain to cut red tape should be huge.
Maintaining the current diplomatic relations would be a devastating mistake – potentially with fatal consequences.
Opposition politicians are wrong in their assessment of the country’s economic response to Covid.
If we impose yet more draconian prison sentences to win a political arms race, the burdens on the taxpayer will become unsustainable.
It has a constructive role to play, supporting artistic creativity without interfering with content.
If it were the critical factor, Belgium should have been superbly prepared for the pandemic. Alas, it was not.
It’s safe to say the UK will have saved tens of thousands of additional lives relative to going at the EU-4’s pace over the coming months.
As Johnson put it yesterday: “we can’t think of this just as a project for us and us alone”.
One of our best selling papers recently ran a piece promoting the views of an “NHS worker” who claimed hospitals were “empty” and Covid was a “hoax”.
France and Austria in particular show that a much more vigorous and coherent defence of the liberal democratic model is both possible and necessary.
Both countries have had difficulties accelerating the speed at which they vaccinate. So what factors have been to blame?
Above all, we need to focus on the strategic picture. Throughout the world democracy, human rights and the rule of law are under pressure.