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We are very pleased to invite you to ConservativeHome’s next free online event: a timely discussion on “Global Britain – navigating the post-Brexit world“. At 7pm on Monday 1st March, we’ll be joined (via Zoom) by: Liz Truss MP, Secretary of State for International Trade Professor Anand Menon, Director of UK in a Changing Europe…
Garvan Walshe is a former National and International Security Policy Adviser to the Conservative Party. Having detected three cases of Covid-19, Melbourne has been put into lockdown. The European Centre for Disease Control suggests it might have to be maintained until the summer. Germany is getting increasingly jumpy about new variants, despite never exceeding 300…
Caroline Ffiske is a former adviser to the New Zealand Government and Conservative councillor in Hammersmith & Fulham. Sir William Macpherson, who led the damning report into the Metropolitan Police following the murder of Stephen Lawrence, has died, aged 94. Tributes have poured in for his groundbreaking work in naming and tackling institutional racism. However,…
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…
