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It was news that talk radio devotees, among whom I long have counted myself, had been anticipating—make that dreading—for months. But when the news broke Wednesday shortly after noon EST, that didn’t make it any less hurtful. When a Limbaugh came on the radio at the usual time and it was not Rush but instead…
Before his dramatic departure from Downing Street, Dominic Cummings had taken the lead on one of the Government’s most ambitious strategies to manage the Coronavirus pandemic; the “Operation Moonshot” mass-swabbing project. This was the Government’s “game-changer” in the Coronavirus wars – particularly at a time when there was uncertainty over whether a vaccine would be…
Sebastian Rees is a researcher at Reform. The pandemic has tested the NHS to the extreme, and while healthcare leaders and frontline workers continue their heroic efforts, the system has been found wanting. Last year’s announcement that Public Health England would be scrapped, and last week’s NHS White Paper reflect a desire to rectify perceived…
Ben Everitt is the MP for Milton Keynes North. Whatever the reason might be for a home move – a new job, downsizing, more room for a growing family – it’s a decision that no one takes lightly. The home moving process is fraught and emotional at the best of times. Families calculate budgets minutely,…
Coronavirus 1) Mass testing blitz as Johnson plans easing of lockdown… “Boris Johnson is drawing up plans for a testing blitz of millions of people in England as the Covid-19 lockdown is eased. NHS Test and Trace is preparing for nationwide “surge” testing under which more than 400,000 rapid lateral flow tests will be sent by post…
The revelation that Britain possesses world-beating capabilities at vaccine development, procurement and distribution prompts the question of what else we might be very good at. No two Britons are likely to draw up the same list, and every list will contain categories which overlap, but here’s mine, compiled with the help of an ad hoc…
Lord Hannan of Kingsclere is a Conservative Life peer, writer and columnist. He was a Conservative MEP from 1999 to 2020, and is now President of the Initiative for Free Trade. What can one country practically do to halt crimes against humanity in another? The answer is far from obvious. At one end of the…
Nick Hoile is a health policy specialist and a Senior Director at MHP Communications. After making it through the most gruelling January in its history, there is a light at the end of the tunnel for the NHS. The number of people in hospital with Coronavirus is slowly falling, as the lockdown pays off by…
Paul Howell is the MP for Sedgefield and Heather Wheeler is the MP for South Derbyshire. After our landslide election victory last year, the Prime Minister made a promise to unite the country and level-up our nations and regions. The jobs-first approach and once in a generation levels of public investment in infrastructure announced by…
