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Just imagine that this time last year someone had described to you what Britain would look like in December 2020. They would tell of a country in which vast swathes of the population had spent endless months locked down at home. Where one business after another was heading for the wall, where children were being … Read more
As winter approaches, the catastrophic impact of the coronavirus national lockdown is becoming ever more tragically clear. In a bitter irony, an approach that was supposedly designed to save lives appears to have achieved the exact opposite. Even today, Health Secretary Matt Hancock talks of the continuing need for tight restrictions, warning that their removal … Read more
Of all the muddled, panicky, flip-flop responses by the Government to the Covid-19 pandemic, the introduction of a so-called ‘circuit breaker’ lockdown this week would be the worst yet. Shutting down the country for two weeks will turn a dangerous situation into a disaster. It’s precisely the wrong thing to do, at exactly the wrong … Read more