Why we should “have enough of experts” – the SAGE advisers and Great Barrington signatories alike

It’s important to have advisers, but “advisers advise and Ministers decide” – because the latter are accountable to the rest of us.

Steve Baker: Ministers should reject a second lockdown and prepare for Plan B

Government needs to reform the stucture of expert advice, and publish serious analysis of the cost of the options they face.

Three actions that Ministers must take if we’re to live without fear. Or else they and we will be lost.

If the public conversation about lives and livelihoods doesn’t change, we risk being trapped in semi-lockdown semi-permanently.

The Government is losing what control over the politics of the virus it has left

Johnson is being squeezed between dissenting local authorities, an increasingly divided Cabinet – and fundamental problems with test and trace.

Dying by numbers

If we follow Spain and France, and test and trace doesn’t improve, the mood on the Tory backbenches is likely to shift towards a Sweden-style solution.

If you thought staying in lockdown was hard, wait until you see what trying to get out of it is like. But here’s how Johnson could do it.

A successful test, track and quarantine policy would open the door to local paths out of this national shutdown.