The 'New Britain' constitution cooked up by Labour's Gordon Brown threatens to end Britain's parliamentary democracy by embedding the power of the civil service and sub-national Government, says J Sorel.
The UK's pandemic plan was clear that lockdowns were not to be used and ethics was to be central. Both of these were ditched in March 2020, says Dr David Seedhouse. Yet the Covid Inquiry has shown no interest in why.
The modern state keeps messing up in its blunt, oppressive, one-size-fits-all solutions to the problems it imagines society faces because it is run by people with a narrow, bureaucratic vision of life, says Eugyppius.
Sweden, an EU member, handled Covid much better than Britain, outside the EU. But that doesn't mean Brexit was fruitless, argues Jon Dobinson, on the seventh anniversary of the historic vote.
Finally skewered by his enemies, Boris's real failure was to have squandered an 80-seat Conservative majority on Covid authoritarianism and green socialism, leaving even his supporters disenchanted.
Whatever your views of Boris Johnson, ejecting from Parliament the man responsible for the Government's current majority is a victory for the Blob that stains our democracy.
The Covid Inquiry hopes to rebrand lockdown as a noble cause, led astray by guilty men. In this way it seeks to revive the moral case for restrictions, and, still more, the moral case for the civil service.
Former PM Boris Johnson is resigning as an MP after receiving a letter from the Privileges Committee informing him that it has found him guilty of misleading Parliament over the 'partygate' lockdown gatherings.
The problem with the WHO isn't that North Korea has a seat on its Executive Board. The problem is that democracies have suddenly decided they want it to dictate policy during self-declared emergencies.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak admitted immigration is "too high" as he faced a backlash over figures laying bare record numbers arriving in the country – 1.2 million total, 606,000 net in 2022.
