I worry that government ministers trust their top civil servants too much, and allow themselves to receive a filtered version of reality*. Perhaps the only long term solution is for all ministers to … (View Post)

Do we know who was chairing the meetings? If it was the health secretary that seems to me appropriate for that stage. (View Post)

Unless there is an email from PHE telling him they had it all under control. Granted, if he wasn't asking probing questions, he should resign as an MP as soon as things have calmed down. That is pret… (View Post)

Tents along the runway? Lots of them. More seriously, if two weeks in lockdown followed arrival at Heathrow there wouldn't be 100,000 passengers a week. (View Post)

You could build a kit car. While the engineers work on the oily bits, the arts dept could design the paintwork and seat fabric. My serious point: I think children in schools could do with less instru… (View Post)