is a Data Analyst and Researcher at the Centre for Policy Studies. The most important thing about the success of the UK’s vaccination rollout is that it will save lives. Not only will the vaccines cut the numbers dying of this horrible disease, but they will mean...
Victoria Hewson: Holding the Care Quality Commission to account for its failure to protect children
Victoria Hewson is the IEA’s Head of Regulatory Affairs, but writes here in a personal capacity. She is co-founder of Radical. She and Rebecca Lowe, her co-founder, alternate authorship of this fortnightly column on trans, sex and gender issues. It’s been a busy...
Plea for phone canvassing for local elections – before a “short, sharp and cheerful” doorstep campaign
There has been widespread concern that the bumper crop of local elections due to take place on May 6th might be postponed due to the pandemic. Just over a week ago, a survey, by the Local Government Information Unit, was released. Of more than 350 chief executives and...
Labour’s vaccine know-it-alls risk derailing a sensible system
As a paradoxical consequence of the UK’s vaccination success, politicians are now arguing about who should come next in the inoculation queue. Currently there are nine groups prioritised for Phase 1 of the vaccine roll out, with over 70s, care home residents and...
Andrew Mitchell and Douglas Alexander: It’s time to ‘crack the crises’ on Covid, injustice and climate change at this year’s G7
Andrew Mitchell MP and Douglas Alexander are both former development secretaries (Mitchell: 2010-12, in David Cameron’s cabinet. Alexander: 2007-10, in Gordon Brown’s). When President Biden comes to Britain it’s up to the Prime Minister to make sure he sees a country...
Benedict Rogers: It seems plausible that this brazen assault on democracy in Myanmar is driven by one man’s ambition
Benedict Rogers is a human rights activist and writer. He is Senior Analyst for East Asia at CSW, co-founder and deputy chair of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission, author of three books on Myanmar (Burma), including “Burma: A Nation at the Crossroads”,...
George Freeman: The industrial strategy reforms I led helped to deliver Britain’s vaccine success. Now for the next phase.
George Freeman is a former Minister for Life Science and Chair of the Prime Minister’s Policy Board (2016-18). He is co-author and editor of the 2020 Conservatives book Britain Beyond Brexit. The combination of Covid-19 and the Crash of 2008 have left this country...
Our survey finds further evidence that Party activists are swinging back behind the Government over Covid
Here are the response totals to this question for each month since we began asking it: December: 24 per cent, 35 per cent, 37 per cent. November: 11 per cent, 31 per cent, 55 per cent. October: 18 per cent, 32 per cent, 46 per cent. September: 13 per cent, 30 per...
Howard Flight: Priority spending should go towards training the next generation
Lord Flight is Chairman of Flight & Partners Recovery Fund, and is a former Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury. I submit that the most important territory to address when managing exposure to the pandemic is to ensure that the next generation is trained for...
Newslinks for Monday 1st February 2021
Vaccines 1) Johnson heralds victory for care homes “Boris Johnson has hailed a “crucial milestone” in the coronavirus battle as official data is expected to confirm that all older people in English care homes have been offered the vaccine. The government had set...
