Cases, which can fluctuate, are often used as the sole measure of a country’s success in fighting Covid-19. But that’s wrong.
These are the same elected representatives the whom we insisted should “step back and trust the professionals”.
Johnson will almost certainly decide to tough it out. But he will have a big problem if school returns prove tricky.
New NHS hospitals do not need to be ugly. It is for the good of patients, hospital staff, and civil society, that they should be attractive buildings.
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.
Having correctly judged that there would be no immediate vaccine, it opted for a sustainable response.
There should be a financial inducement to encourage people to support local fitness centres.
The NHS employs 1.75 million people and is too monolithic. The number of civil servants has risen to 460,000. This is territory which the Chancellor needs to examine in detail.
Those with cardiac conditions and other serious illnesses have, in many cases, been unable or too afraid to seek treatment.
Death is not a statistical data point, and the loss of life of a mother, a father, a child, and a key worker can never be filled.
If politicians stopped pretending to an almost totalitarian infallibility, and encouraged the rest of us to show what we can do, the results would be better.
Experienced paramedics are refusing deserved promotions because they don’t want to be part of existing management.
How can we expect a coordinated international response when we can’t even agree how to count deaths?
But many noticed the absence of Patrick Vallance, who has criticised the idea that the working from home policy should change.
Only through free and open debate can we make the greatest scientific and policy-making strides.