He also dismisses the UK’s response to the emergence of the Covid-19 virus as “slow, complacent and flat-footed”, a reaction that show the government was “glaringly unprepared” for the pandemic.
Day: June 14, 2020
BACK TO SCHOOL: LEGAL REQUIREMENT TO RETURN
Coronavirus: School exam timetable could be put back next year By Bill Heaney Education Secretary John Swinney said today (Sunday) that he understood the anxiety
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
Life, with its struggles, suggests to us the importance of wealth and power or influence and success as what life is about, they suggest to us that these are the things that offer us the best chance of happiness and of having a worthwhile life.
THERE IS, AFTER ALL, SUCH A THING AS SOCIETY
The right will continue to push this agenda, but it will have to do so in an environment in which neither personal safety nor economy recovery is possible without massive and well-directed government.
WHO CARES? ARE HOMES FOR ELDERLY PROPERLY FUNDED
Indeed, private care homes in Britain are struggling with unsustainable low levels of government-paid fees.
NEWSPAPERS AND MAGS FOUR MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT
Even by the standards of webinars on the future of media (with some Covid-19 economic devastation for context), Friday’s event with advertising boss Martin Sorrell and British journalist-turned-media executive Will Lewis – hosted by communications agency Powerscourt – was heavy on the matter-of-fact gloom.