The government's current approach lacks a clear message. It favours prescriptive rules ('6 people') that sound arbitrary over principles people can understand and apply. Surely we need the following:… (View Post)

On reflection last night's press conference was a terrible mistake for Johnson personally. Before that point, the story was about a government advisor. As is typical with similar stories, the governm… (View Post)

I agree. It's "I've not been able to do X, Y, Z for 2 months, and he thinks he's above the rules?" that will be deadly for Cummings. The outrage will cut across the political spectrum. The … (View Post)

On the wider impact on Covid 19 on the death rate (including those in the community and of poorer treatment of unrelated diseases), the ONS's dataset here is very helpful to complete some simple anal… (View Post)

It's been discussed that it takes around 2 weeks for a lock down to feed through into reduced cases and then deaths, hence certain parts of Italy hopefully being in the process of peaking. In the UK … (View Post)