Plus: Ferguson’s evidence, two metres distance, Desmond’s donation, Jenrick’s response.
Sitting in a park is selfish, but organising a mass demonstration in a park is wonderful, and schools should still stay closed. Seriously?
But these demonstrations, which cannot uphold social distancing, will have a catastrophic impact on our collective fight against the virus.
Thousands have signed rival petitions to save, or remove, an early 19th century, Grade II* listed, pub sign in a Derbyshire town.
For a country deep in debt, lofty thoughts are not enough to justify such huge numbers of students doing things that don’t help them economically,
“Yesterday morning, at 2.41am…General Jodl and Grand Admiral Donitz signed the act of unconditional surrender.”
The great Parliamentarian then spoke to his colleagues from the heart. “Some Members wept,” Channon noted.
It should remove those taxes and regulations that will stop business from applying their ingenuity on the problem of rebuilding from the ruins.
This crisis is teaching us the value of religious freedom, and the need to speak up for our faith at home and abroad.
We hope that the new Johnson, the referendum-scarred near-landslide winner, regains the wider appeal of the old one, the Mayor who got stuck on a zip wire.
The part of the country that is working well is the part that is not waiting for people in a risk-averse chain of centralised command to make a decision.
Plus: Treasury and Work & Pensions lessons. Greenlighters v the rest. Remembering Attlee’s surplus. And: the key question now is “how”, not “what”.
Plus: My video tour of my bookshelves and why I won’t indulge editors. Three times in the last few days I’ve said no to them.
Johnson’s task is to hire the right people and back them as long as they are getting things done, no matter who they offend in the process.
The Mayor of London is wrong to seek to erase our common history rather than contribute to it in new ways.