Tag: covid-19

I fetch my daughter from university, plus all her boxes, books and plants – and bring her home. She’s a geographer and she and her friends…

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In democratic government, the general rule is supposed to be simple: advisers advise, ministers decide, civil servants do. In the UK system, that emerged fully…

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It is the best of times; it is the worst of times. It is a time of excitement and of fear, of enthusiasm and exhaustion,…

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Since the weekend, I have been feeling almost permanently in a state of high anxiety, not particularly about coronavirus itself but its seemingly endless, economic,…

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Geopolitically, the coronavirus pandemic, born in China in 2019 (Covid-19), has highlighted the failure of three ideologies: communism, Europeanism and globalism. The Chinese Communist Party…

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In my previous commentary here, I made the point that what really matters in the economic and financial context of the coronavirus crisis isn’t what…

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In the time of cholera, which – despite Gabriel Garcia Marquez – I take to be the 1830s, there were riots in the back streets…

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The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a bright light on how policy is made in today’s world, and the pressures to which it is subject. I…

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Where the human, social and logistical dimensions of the Wuhan coronavirus epidemic are concerned, the most that any of us can really do is to…

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