The pandemic saw crony capitalism at its worst as big companies enriched themselves at public expense. The more government is captured by big business, the more the rich profit, and the more problems we see.
This authoritarian Government's Education Bill will grant local authorities sweeping new powers to regulate home education and force home educated children to attend their own failing schools.
A recent article in the Times claims that our ministers "did their best" during the pandemic, since we finished in the middle of the Covid death table. But the article ignores Britain's dismal economic performance.
The UK has used just 142 million of the stockpile of 650 million vaccine doses it purchased, leaving an estimated £4 billion worth of vaccines unused and, at current levels of take-up, likely going to waste.
The Transport Department finally admits it carried out no cost-benefit analysis before introducing mandatory masking on public transport last year. Shock!
When it comes to providing the public with full, clear, honest information about Covid and the vaccines, the Government has been caught repeatedly putting spin and narrative ahead of transparency and truth.
When asked about the exemption for football VIPs, a government source said, "It's important to be able to host international events". But why isn’t it important to be able to host weddings and concerts?
Nobody would propose going into lockdown if they looked at the current numbers. So why why have we not come out of lockdown? As Daniel Hannan argues, the answer could be status quo bias.
