Archive - [the brief]

Never take Democracy for granted

The January 8 riot attack on Brazil’s National Congress shows the consequences of choosing corrupt, populist, and fearmongering leaders.

Jan 9, 2023

Self-destructive Tories

Being a Conservative PM is a lonely job.

Jan 8, 2023

The Kraken variant is to blame, not China

The ultra-transmissible XBB.1.5 Kraken variant was first detected in the United States... not in China.

Jan 8, 2023

March 2022

Tories: Displacement of responsibility as a golden rule.

Uncomfortable Chancellor Rishi Sunak finds himself in the middle of a storm because of his family business links to Russia.

Mar 25, 2022

February 2022

PM resignation – A show of hypocrisy.

Tory MP tweets her indignation at the thought that Senior Conservatives such as John Major or Theresa May dare to publicly call for Boris Johnson’s…

Feb 11, 2022

January 2022

Nobody told me this was against the rules – Boris Johnson.

We’ve got a Prime Minister who set the rules on COVID, then repeatedly reminded the public what those rules were and why they had to be followed…

Jan 18, 2022

September 2021

Still unsure about what is wrong with this government?

The UK Government is now opening the country wider for foreign travel. Anything wrong with that, considering the current COVID situation in the UK?

Sep 22, 2021

“British exceptionalism” must catch up with the 21st century.

The government had the entire summer to deliver CO2 monitors to all UK schools. They haven't. What now?

Sep 10, 2021

Don’t let them tell you we are back to ‘normal’.

There should be a real concern that some people feel they are no longer at risk and appear to have stopped taking steps to protect themselves and…

Sep 8, 2021

Hundreds of people are still dying of COVID in the UK every day... and nobody cares!

We, sadly, know that our government, its supporters and its MPs are poor role models in relation to wearing masks, here and in the House of Commons. But…

Sep 8, 2021

No, the coronavirus pandemic is not over.

Some commentators, mostly writing in right-wing newspapers, seem to suggest that things are getting better in the UK.

Sep 2, 2021

August 2021

As COVID-19 rages on, what is the government doing?

Coronavirus cases are high with between 25,000 and 30,000 infections reported every day and deaths now in their hundreds every day. What are the prime…

Aug 10, 2021

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