The public has been subjected to two years of relentless bombardment about disease and death in this dystopian experiment.
Unions have called for children to be vaccinated – but they may be up against an even noisier group: parents.
The British government has been commendably muted on the behaviour of von der Leyen and other politicians.
Across the world’s poorest counties, it is predicted that at least 90 per cent of people in 67 low-income countries won’t get vaccinated this year.
Some leaders realise the seriousness of the problem. Merkel’s spokesman has pleaded with Germans to take the “safe and highly effective” jab.
The first piece in a ConHome mini-series this week on industrial strategy after the pandemic.
As Johnson put it yesterday: “we can’t think of this just as a project for us and us alone”.
We need to start listening to the right people – not hopeless people who get it wrong time and again, but face zero accountability.
Our choice will be between the de-growth agenda of the left, or one of innovation, creativity and technological advance.