The idea that public bodies are a last resort must be replaced with the aim of using them well when they are the form best suited to the task.
If one simple student society can’t avoid the metastasiation of unelected office holders, what hope has a government?
There are real questions to ask about the fundamental problems of the Government’s pandemic response.
It contains ideas for the NHS which would genuinely help deprived communities. But the DLUHC should be wary of overstretching itself.
The fourth part of a series on ConHome this week about the politics of race and ethnicity in Britain today.
Governments which recognise vaping’s potential to lower smoking rates and save lives should make that case strongly at COP9.
If vaccinating the most vulnerable won’t allow us to get back to life as normal, what will?
The studies that Public Health England cited offered limited evidence of their effectiveness outside clinical settings.
Unless there is a dramatic change to the UK’s Covid situation, restrictions must end, as planned, on June 21.
Children’s health is too often weaponised as a justification for pushing through all sorts of unnecessary new punitive taxes and regulations.
The pandemic has regularly pitched the economy and health on different sides of the policy response. This is a false choice.
First, it should present future recommendations within a year. Next, on a longer timescale, it should look at what went wrong.
It’s a terrible milestone and Ministers throughout the UK will be blamed. How could our governments and administrations do better next time?
This is not to say that all of Dodds’ analysis is coherent or correct, but the days of unhinged Corbynite attacks on capitalism are over.
Let’s move fast to outlaw irresponsible sales tactics, and increase punishments for those that do not abide by the law. But banning all vape flavours, or disposable vapes, would be immensely counterproductive.