There are real questions to ask about the fundamental problems of the Government’s pandemic response.
The public has been subjected to two years of relentless bombardment about disease and death in this dystopian experiment.
That would usefully combine what Johnson can get away with and should do in any event.
The crucial factor is how effective vaccines are against hospitalisations for the Omicron variant.
Here are three measures the Department of Education should take to stop this from happening.
It seeks to define education settings as essential infrastructure alongside other premises such as power stations, hospitals and food retailers.
The second piece in a mini-series on ConHome this week on Net Zero and climate change.
If vaccinating the most vulnerable won’t allow us to get back to life as normal, what will?
First, it should present future recommendations within a year. Next, on a longer timescale, it should look at what went wrong.
Furthermore, critics of the programme are alarmed by the rising costs. But will they ever acknowledge that ‘lockdown sceptics’ warned about these?
The most important question today isn’t whether the Government’s plan is right or wrong, but how decisions should be made about it.
But as ever, trying to make out a consensus position is like trying to pick out a tune when a drunk pianist is playing a broken piano.
This should be welcomed by all – because it will carry greater legitimacy among the public who sent us to Westminster to be their representatives.
The emergency measures enacted to battle Covid have exposed the groupthink of Whitehall’s expert establishment.
Perhaps it is time to start to learn to love quangos; perhaps with greater democratic control, such a romance would be possible.