14 January 2021 Where are you, EU? The free (and unfree) world needs you! By Neil Tidmarsh It’s been a bad week for freedom and democracy. No, that isn’t a comment on the events in Washington. In fact it’s been a good week for freedom and democracy in the USA: a massive and volatile protest
14 January 2021 Covid-19 Why has Japan done so much better? By Richard Pooley Imagine that you are travelling by train from London to Bristol. How soon after leaving Paddington would you see fields, cows and woods? 20 minutes? By the time you had got past Slough perhaps? What if I told you that you
14 January 2021 Lies, Damned Lies and Coronavirus Excess deaths by David Chilvers One intriguing aspect of the second wave of coronavirus is that excess deaths have not materialised to the extent that was seen in the first wave in Spring 2020. In investigating this, we believe there is a flaw in the way that
14 January 2021 Tech No-Platforming What is free speech? By Lynda Goetz The discussion has been ongoing for years now, both in Europe and the other side of the Atlantic. The terms ‘free speech’, ‘freedom of speech’ and ‘freedom of expression’ used to be terms educated people felt they understood, but ever since social media
14 January 2021 Investing 2021 – A Special “K”? Binary Outcomes. By Frank O’Nomics Are we in a bubble? Yes. Will it burst? Yes. Will we all lose our shirts? That depends. There has been much talk of the right letter to describe the current recession. We have discussed before the prospects of an L,
14 January 2021 Britannia Still Afloat; Nurses still going nowhere. By Paul Branch With great relief but with a modicum of trepidation we can report that, two weeks into Brexit, the good ship Britannia sails on serenely across our sovereign waters. The skies have not completely fallen in: food and medical supplies continue albeit with
14 January 2021 Diary of a Corbynista A Corbynista in The White House? by Don Urquhart 6 January Clinicians should advise patients that the Government has plans in place to ensure a continued supply of medicines to patients from the moment we leave the EU. Patients will not need to and should not seek to
07 January 2021 The Trade Deal An extraordinary achievement. By John Watson With the ink now dry on the new trade deal between the UK and the EU, the next stage of the domestic politics has begun. It is true that by coming to an agreement which avoided tariff barriers on goods the Government has
07 January 2021 Boris Pulls It Off! That trade deal in numbers. By Paul Branch Brexit oven-ready deal done and dusted on Christmas Eve, and approved and signed by New Year’s Eve. Boris can do no wrong, his celestial ascent now guarantees him a significant entry in future history books, and he has every right
