I promised that I wouldn’t write about the government’s approach to the coronavirus until it was all over. But that promise was made under the assumption that this particular group of politicians, fresh from their total electoral victory, would get some kind of handle on the situation. I gave them the benefit of the doubt,…

There is a time and a place for political blogs. There will also, one day, be a reckoning for this Johnson government. An independent review into their decision-making process is inevitable. The utter shambles of their communications, along with the real possibility that wasting time on a “herd immunity”plan might cost thousands of lives, will…

These are unprecedented times. Let’s not beat around the bush – it’s pretty scary. Not because this is something immediate, tangible and horrifying like a terrorist attack, of course. It’s because we know what’s coming, we know that it can’t be stopped, and we don’t know what the overall damage will be. And it looks…