Brexit
— Professor Chris Grey on how the current travel chaos and the impending decision on import controls show how Brexit impacts fragile complex systems and how the Brexiter denial of complex reality doesn’t make it disappear.
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Brexit
— Professor Chris Grey on how the current travel chaos and the impending decision on import controls show how Brexit impacts fragile complex systems and how the Brexiter denial of complex reality doesn’t make it disappear.
COVID-19
— More than 1,000 cases of omicron XE have been detected in the UK so far. But we shouldn’t be seriously concerned at this stage.
Health
— An ongoing outbreak of Salmonella linked to Kinder products produced by the company Ferrero results in 67 cases of which a majority are in small children.
Downing Street Parties
— The British prime minister, his wife and the chancellor of the exchequer are all in legal trouble over lockdown gatherings. What happens next?
Analysis
— An expert answers our questions about the tax status claimed by Rishi Sunak’s wife and other wealthy people.
COVID-19
— Severe COVID disease is rare in children, but high case numbers are seeing more kids being affected. There is no such thing as a “mild hospitalisation”, especially when it’s your child on the ward.
Petition
— In just 24 hours, the majority of people in England will no longer be able to get free COVID tests. John Puntis, retired Doctor and co-chair of Keep NHS Public is urging the government to rethink this policy.
Long-Read
— Professor Chris Grey on the confusion of Boris Johnson with a national leader, confusions on all sides about P&O Ferries, confusions in the CBI’s attempts to get behind Brexit, and the different kinds of Brexit failure that shouldn’t be confused.
Analysis
— Employment law is all at sea. Rich companies can simply choose to buy themselves out of the legal system.
What The Experts Say
— The views of experts and health professionals on whether there is cause for concern as COVID case numbers are rising again, the risk of a new variant to show up, the situation in schools and long COVID.
Justice
— The Government has admitted that all of Boris Johnson’s pandemic phone messages are unavailable. What is the Prime Minister trying to hide from the public?
Brexit
— With the war showing its pointlessness, and none of its promises delivered, most supporters of Brexit are falling silent. That will not make Brexit go away, though, so what might it lead to? Professor Chris Grey’s analysis.
Fact-Check
— An uncomfortable Chancellor Rishi Sunak finds himself in the middle of a storm because of his family business links to Russia.
OPINION
— Boris Johnson comparing the agonies of Ukraine with Brexit, claiming that both are examples of standing up for freedom, is a crass insult to crassness.
Analysis
— Zero hour contracts remove job security and impact workers’ health, finances and prospects.
Long-Read
— Professor Chris Grey looking at last week’s events in terms of the blurring of truth and lies that is in part a legacy of Brexit, and has strange parallels with Putin’s ‘spy’ mindset.
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