Principles for post-Covid Britain: an agenda we can all share
Friday, June 12th, 2020I am a signatory to this statement, published yesterday in The Ecologist. I also had involvement in its drafting, although I am not an author.
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There will be anger, but only when our economy is collapsing faster than most of our neighbours
Wednesday, June 10th, 2020I have already discussed the end of what we have thought to be normal this morning. And I have discussed why on occasion protest is
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Unless landlords and banks take the biggest hit from this crisis we are going to see massive increases in poverty
Tuesday, June 9th, 2020The realities of the world we now live in are daily becoming more apparent. I noticed an article yesterday that made me reflect on a
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The government is not following the science: and it's the health professionals who are saying so
Monday, June 1st, 2020Whatever the government is now doing on Covid 19 it is not following the science. The Association of Directors of Public Health in the UK
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Why I am worrying
Sunday, May 31st, 2020I am as bored by coronavirus speculation as anyone else. I am also well aware that I am not an epidemiologist. And I also readily
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Is it really time to re-open England?
Sunday, May 31st, 2020Prof Sean Danaher wrote this on the Progressive Pulse blog on 29 May. Nothing has changed since then. I think it well worth sharing it
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Understanding the myths that need to be tackled
Thursday, May 28th, 2020I have now done some analysis on all the answers to the question I raised last weekend on the economic, and other, myths that need
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The UK has the highest coronavirus death rate. What is truly sad is that this was the result of political choice, and not by chance
Thursday, May 28th, 2020The FT has noted this morning: The UK has suffered the highest rate of deaths from the coronavirus pandemic among countries that produce comparable data,
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We'll be just fine so long as no one, anywhere, anytime, thinks that we have to repay the government's so-called debt. Because in this crisis that is the one thing we will not need.Â
Friday, May 22nd, 2020I have just posted these comments as a twitter thread, which is why they are written in the short form that they are in: The
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