With the NHS apparently out of danger, and daily cases in decline, the fear factor is clearly falling – at least, if one’s measure is how people are behaving.
By all indications, the country’s citizens have been some of Europe’s most compliant in observing lockdown.
Impacts on the margin shouldn’t be used to mask the big picture: private activity mimicked shutdowns before they happened.
The Prime Minister has room and time to get the new policy right – at least as far as most Party members are concerned.
The political logic of the Prime Minister’s choice is solid enough. But we’re past the stage where his Sunday statement can simply be taken on trust.
Trying to decipher which Government has been “best” and “worst” at handling the crisis is a tricky endeavour.
The Chinese Communist Party doesn’t really believe in free or fair markets and has a strategy based on domination, not fair competition.
The poll shows a Union Jack effect. Scratch the surface, and respondents back Johnson to the hilt. Probe deeper, and there are doubts.
With more people at home and severely restricted, the pandemic has exacerbated regulatory concerns about betting and gaming.
A common threat, especially in the form of a pathogen, flicks switches in our brains, making us less tolerant of dissent.
The only way of pushing such a narrative is to remove context and nuance from the data.
Unless you think the projected caseload was wrong by an order of magnitude, it was the only way to buy time.
Some of those loudest in denouncing a young Downing Street adviser, seem unaware of the views of their intellectual heroes.
A new study by a former senior adviser to two Tory Chancellors gets itself back to front. Inequality is not so much a cause of processes as a consequence.
When a drop in the curve of the virus is seen, the public’s health mustn’t be endangered by a blinkered pursuit of balancing the books.