News Round-Up
7 May 2024
...to international politics, and also do some policy analysis for a private institution. Although I miss meeting my students (online classes are in no way a replacement for in-person interaction),...
...failing to supply it to EU countries, to claiming that it is ineffective, back to accusing us of hoarding it again” – it is easy to buy this argument and...
...events and public gatherings in the short term and will be ditched when the UK reaches herd immunity in October. But the logistics of using them in pubs and restaurants...
...fears it could affect the easing of restrictions “UK set to buy new Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine designed to protect against South African variant” – According to inews, Britain is set to...
...economies, such as the UK’s, absent a lockdown. The reason, of course, is that people are voluntarily self-isolating even though the Swedish Government isn’t mandating it. https://twitter.com/JDVance1/status/1247730274735214593 Further Reading ‘All...
...Weiss, David R Murdoch, The Lancet, March 17th 2020 ‘Ventilators aren’t a panacea for a pandemic like coronavirus‘ by Matt Strauss, The Spectator, April 4th 2020 https://twitter.com/pmdfoster/status/1251434219139665920 Further Viewing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9GYTc53r2o...
...countries with low numbers of Covid cases to come to the UK without having to quarantine on arrival. Trade body Airlines UK said it supported the latest restrictions “on the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=babm1neD5eY In January, Grant Shapps said that if the Government did not fully unlock the country by early March after the most vulnerable groups were vaccinated, he would personally stand...
...In the latest episode of the Spectator’s podcast “The Week in 60 Minutes“, Kate Andrews asks: “If the vaccine won’t restore our liberty, what will? When does it end?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEIvkwnKRAE...
...the standards that the public has a right to expect… in a crisis like this”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPJAiXNcLlI&t=28s It didn’t take long for Dominic’s attention to turn to the failings of others....
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