What The Experts Say
— Experts and health professionals on the current rise in COVID infections in Europe, what it means for the UK, and what happens with children.
What The Experts Say
— Experts and health professionals on the current rise in COVID infections in Europe, what it means for the UK, and what happens with children.
Analysis
— There are important similarities between the current PM’s woes and John Major’s – but a very important difference, too.
Brexit
— The UK is threatening to trigger Article 16. What is the Northern Ireland protocol ‘emergency brake’?
Brexit
— Professor Chris Grey’s latest Brexit analysis, looking at different scenarios arising from the Article 16 threat, how that threat is an attempt to re-run the Brexit process and the political implications of doing so for Johnson and for Labour.
Analysis
— Just because corruption is very difficult to measure doesn’t mean that it can’t be felt and that high profile scandals don’t have an impact. The politicians implicated in these scandals neglect the impact that they can have at their peril.
OPINION
— The eyes of the world saw a British Government desperately trying to evade democratic scrutiny and oversight as it helped to water down vital resolutions on the future of the planet. The Conservatives have trashed the UK’s international reputation.
Brexit
— Paterson’s career as an MP has ended in disgrace, although he may well continue to play his part in the ‘Brexitosphere’ of thinktanks and pressure groups in which he has had so prominent a role before and after Brexit.
COP26
— Mainstream reporters not familiar with the topic may spin the summit as a huge success or devastating failure.
Analysis
— The husband of detained Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is in the 18th day of his hunger strike outside the Foreign Office in London.
Analysis
— Own Paterson has now resigned but the damage caused by MPs voting to block an independent decision has already been done.
Brexit
— A new post-Brexit Poll of Polls currently shows 51% are in favour of being part of the EU and 49% against.
Brexit
— A report by the NAO has found that while the government was able to deliver an initial operating capability at the GB-EU border by the end of the transition period, much more work is needed to bring in import controls, reduce the burden on traders, and resolve the position for Northern Ireland.
Brexit
— Professor Chris Grey’s long read analysis on the complexities of the Brexit fishing row, how they do/don’t relate to the Northern Ireland Protocol row, why ‘remainers’ needn’t pick a side, and why Brexiters can’t turn the clocks back.
OPINION
— In the next independence referendum campaign, the Conservatives and their anti-independence allies will flood Scotland with billboard campaigns and social media advertising paid for with dark money sourced outside Scotland.
Education
— More hours of teaching might benefit children’s recovery in the short term but put teachers under dangerous pressure.
COMMENT
— The latest REACT-1 study shows what many experts and health professionals feared would happen in the UK without mitigations: a higher number of infections in households with children is driving the rise of infection in the 65+ age group. Analysis of the REACT-1 study results by Dr Deepti Gurdasani.
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