I have been seeking support for businesses which moved into new premises and are not on the Rating List – so are not eligible for support.
If you can afford it, please let’s treat the family to a takeaway once a week. The community we thought we didn’t have, is alive and kicking.
The crisis is bound to put a further strain on Birmingham’s finances. The timetable for the Commonwealth Games was already very tight.
No-one wants to be thought nosey and interfering, but protecting the elderly from scammers is essential.
Many local councillors, from across the political divide, have been setting up community groups, engaging with vulnerable people.
Plus: And a Coronavirus Social Justice Minister. Give thanks for Starmer. And: it’s time for a Virtual Parliament.
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.
We have been blown away by the hundreds of people who have come forward to help. Out of bad comes good.
A friend of mine who runs the pub decided to turn his hand to takeaway food – delivering a meal to every vulnerable older person at no charge.
My casework system has seen 400 plus new emails from residents and businesses entered onto it, for the most part each of which represents a new case.
They should be ensuring that the police do not behave in a way that alienates people. Plus – the imperative to free up NHS beds.
A deep reservoir of community and contribution, obscured in normal times, has been uncovered by our present situation.
Plus: Treasury and Work & Pensions lessons. Greenlighters v the rest. Remembering Attlee’s surplus. And: the key question now is “how”, not “what”.
Two extreme versions of what happens next in Britain. Events are more likely to end up somewhere in the middle.
British society has mobilised on an exceptional scale to meet the coronavirus crisis. We must forge this militia into a standing army.