It can never replace face to face help that families need, but it can provide quick answers, useful signposting and help to combat loneliness.
“Special measures” are ineffective unless the failing culture is challenged. Local accountability is lacking.
We need more information, transparency and scrutiny. A committee on the model of the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards is required.
Yesterday’s news marked an incredible achievement. Even so, there are many hurdles to vault.
The key lesson from the Cambridge scheme is the importance of public support. Eighty per cent of students volunteered to take part.
Whitehall must understand that if an algorithm offers up cherished green spaces to hungry developers, there will be a local backlash.
We know is that a lockdown is very damaging. The first one took around a quarter off our national income and output. We cannot afford to do that again.
To both treat every Covid patient who needs it and maintain regular services through the ‘winter crisis’, the NHS needs a more muscular intervention.
We need to separate the Nightingales from other hospitals, build more of them – and use them as a means of isolating the infected.
Our latest survey finds that nine in ten Party members support such a move – a total that this latest news is unlikely to have reduced.
It’s important to have advisers, but “advisers advise and Ministers decide” – because the latter are accountable to the rest of us.
The final part of a mini-series of three articles on obesity policy for ConservativeHome this week.
There will be real anger about the prospect of a digital winter break – unless there’s a very serious surge in deaths.
Compare and contrast how government works with what the Armed Forces do – and their practice of decentralised command.