'If reopening schools is the priority, why not spend a few days giving teachers their jabs?' – @SophyRidgeSky Health Secretary @MattHancock says there isn't "strong evidence that teachers are more likely to catch COVID than any other...
Newslinks for Sunday 21st February 2021
Tories ‘at war’ over Symonds’ power at No.10: Think-tank that includes grandees Tebbit and Lamont demands inquiry into behind-the-scenes influence of PM’s fiancee “Bitter Tory in-fighting broke out last night after a Conservative-friendly...
Why was there no reference to Islamist extremism in Johnson’s terror speech?
Boris Johnson’s upbeat speech at the Munich conference on security could not have been clearer about his Government’s theatre of engagement – “the security of our homeland and the stability of the Euro-Atlantic area”. It called out...
Stephen O’Brien: The challenge of converting world-class research into British economic success. Here’s an example than works.
Sir Stephen O’Brien is a former International Development Minister and United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. The recent interesting and challenging posts on this site by David Davis and...
WATCH: Gimson on the departure of Oliver Lewis – and fissures in Johnson’s Downing Street
Here’s @AndrewGimson on the court of King Boris on @Channel4News – with added bonus of beard & amusing cat cameo. https://t.co/K1S1mMnJlF — Cathy Newman (@cathynewman) February 20, 2021
Tom Spencer: A one-off wealth tax is not the way forward – but a proportional property tax might do the job
Tom Spencer is a Young Voices UK contributor. He is also the lead organiser for the London Neoliberals and sits on its Steering Committee as Vice-Chair of International Chapters. Mel Stride, Tory MP and chair of the Treasury select committee, has just proposed a...
Newslinks for Saturday 20th February 2021
Downing Street in disarray as second Union adviser quits in two weeks “Downing Street’s policy on the Union has been thrown into disarray after a second Number 10 adviser on the issue quit in as many weeks. Oliver Lewis, a former Vote Leave staffer and Dominic...
Johnson’s Downing Street. Like an unstable Middle Eastern autocracy – with jihadis, family militias, and outside actors exchanging fire.
Downing Street, like some unstable Middle Eastern autocracy, is in danger of disintegrating into warring factions Few outside the Westminster Village know who Oliver Lewis is, and fewer care about his resignation as a special adviser to Boris Johnson. Some believe...
Sarah Ingham: Corbyn and his gang could scarcely have handled coronavirus worse than the Government
Dr Sarah Ingham is a member of Kensington, Chelsea and Fulham Conservative Association. Might it have been better if Jeremy Corbyn and his band of merry Trots won the December 2019 General Election? Had Corbyn and the comrades somehow got their hands on the levers of...
Ben Howlett: Hancock must seize this opportunity for health and social care reform
Before becoming MD of Public Policy Projects, Ben was Member of Parliament for Bath from 2015 to 2017 and Chair of the first Parliamentary Group for Rare, Genetic and Undiagnosed Conditions. He also Chaired the Stroke Group and supported the personalised medicines and...
