With more people at home and severely restricted, the pandemic has exacerbated regulatory concerns about betting and gaming.
The reluctance of the experts to predict Korean unification means the chances of this happening are almost certainly underestimated.
Of course our employers should provide us with safety equipment. But as health and care workers, we also need to think about how to help ourselves.
I am grateful to the Government for responding to our financial concerns. It’s meant that help has reached those who need it most.
81,611 tests were carried out yesterday – and he says that he will be setting out “a compehensive plan next week” on the lockdown.
Having extended its initial target to find 750,000 helpers, it seems the Government now has too many.
It may prove easier to maintain coordination when imposing the rules than easing them, especially if regional variegation is called for.
Used properly, stretch targets have the effect of galvanising the level of culture change, ambition, pace and delivery which is needed.
Following this road will require a transformation of how we work and live on an expectation-defying scale.
It will require up to 50,000 people, not 18,000. Or else we’re set to be in shutdown for the duration – with baleful economic consequences.
There have been delays in sending payments to businesses. Rubbish collections have been missed.
“We have recorded an additional 3,811 deaths in total… those additional deaths were spread over the period from the 2nd March to 28th April.”
The new Leader of the Opposition put Raab on the defensive, but has not yet discovered the transcendent virtue of brevity.
The Covid-19 pandemic is one of the greatest crises to face any Government in living memory – but it cannot be fought on the home front alone.