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Why Boris Johnson should address the nation on July 5 and tell the truth.
There seems to be a huge discrepancy between government perception of the pandemic and reality. Is Westminster in a parallel universe where everything…
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…
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…
Selfless Britain?
The government’s strategy not to share a single vaccine dose with the rest of the world until its own entire adult population gets the jab is nothing…
Eurostar is about to go bust... The government must save it, now!
While the UK Government plays games to see one of the most iconic Franco-British companies crash in the middle of a pandemic, Eurostar employees are…
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…
Is Downing Street panicking over the South African Covid-19 variant?
A mix of flawed strategy and dreadful vaccine nationalism — the libertarians are in charge of the country at the worst of time to our peril. In panic…
Vaccination isn't behind the fall in Covid-19 infections. The lockdown is.
Why Boris Johnson must resist the pressure by libertarians of all types and stripes to lift all Covid-19 lockdown restrictions early. You may have seen…
Vaccination: Facts really matter.
For its vaccination programme, the government has put it all on NHS blue at the Covid roulette table. Although the vaccine rollout has been a success so…
Is the vaccine rollout protecting teachers and parents?
Fact-checking Children’s Minister Vicky Ford’s claim that it is not reckless to reopen all UK schools in the same week because parents and teachers are…
All that they can afford...
By telling us last week that 1% is all that they can afford to pay the exhausted heroes who saved our lives, who looked after our families and friends…
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.
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