The EU’s triggering of Article 16 is premature, provocative and sets a precedent that will be cited by those unwilling to accept the consequences of the Protocol.
It’s a terrible milestone and Ministers throughout the UK will be blamed. How could our governments and administrations do better next time?
The Government should engage local authorities and the 10,000 military personnel held at high readiness to provide increased resilience.
We have to ask whether high bed occupancy rates in the NHS are tilting the balance between efficiency and resilience in the wrong direction.
Any new system should direct incentives towards rewarding those who step down to retirement accommodation and those cared for by their descendants.
It’s been estimated that they have the capability to vaccinate about 1.3 million Brits each week, and their services go beyond that.
The new President’s problems will begin right at the start with whatever he decides to do next.
The Government should begin to dash unrealistic expectations now, rather than be forced to do so later.
Harness the wisdom that is out there, and let your colleagues in and beyond Parliament help you, rather being tempted to think we are here to hinder you.
“If necessary even tighter restrictions in conjunction with more long-term clarity for businesses would benefit the NHS and the economy”.
Government sometimes treats the constraints fatalistically, rather than seeing them as a problem that prices, incentives, and regulations could affect.
New guidance helps. But why on earth did it take three months to communicate something so straightforward?
The Legatum Institute has this week published a methodology for one. We don’t claim that it has all the answers, but it does offer a guide to hard policy choices.
The emergency measures enacted to battle Covid have exposed the groupthink of Whitehall’s expert establishment.
Lockdown has heightened OCD sufferers’ symptoms and hampered their treatment. There is a fierce urgency for innovation.