Covid: a loss of authority
November 22, 2021 2:14 am Post a CommentA little while ago, I wrote of how Spanish environment and energy minister Teresa Ribera had sought to reassure consumers about the... View Article
A little while ago, I wrote of how Spanish environment and energy minister Teresa Ribera had sought to reassure consumers about the... View Article
More than 18 months after I first intimated that the government, in attempting to control the Covid-19 epidemic then rampaging... View Article
Well, today’s the day when it is supposed to be all happening, yet I don’t think there’s anyone in the... View Article
It’s been such a long time coming, and predicted so widely, that there can hardly be any sense of surprise... View Article
Given that prime minister Johnson is a congenital liar, it doesn’t strike me as particularly helpful for him to make... View Article
The good news is that the Covid-19 figures are going the right way – across the board. Cases, hospital admissions... View Article
At a certain stage in most high profile political dramas, the reporting media will start to settle on a “narrative”... View Article
Within hours of it having been published, the draft implementing regulation was taken down. The action leaves an orphaned press release, a... View Article
The Oxford/AstraZeneca dispute is ideal media-fodder. The facts are difficult to establish, none of those involved are likely to sue... View Article
Given that Farage has nothing constructive to offer on Brexit, the recycling of his moribund Brexit party is a logical... View Article
Since everyone seems to have their own pet conspiracy theory these days, I might as well join in. I thus... View Article
One largely predictable side effect of the Covid-19 epidemic has been a plague of rats and mice infesting private homes.... View Article
There are more talks today between EU and UK delegations, although one wonders why the two sides keep up the... View Article
Expressed by number of days – including the leap year – four years seems an odd figure to be celebrating... View Article
The Guardian is doing the failings of the government’s “test-and-trace” system, with no less than four critical articles. Yet, for all that,... View Article
In an interesting intervention, Hugh Pennington writes in the Telegraph that there is no evidence to suggest a coronavirus “second wave” is... View Article