Lockdown

It is time to reopen. We can accept that the government rightly wants to exercise caution – given that we have needed to return to lockdown on previous reopening attempts.…

2020 was a special year. It showed us that no government can be prepared for the tricks of nature, no matter how organised and planned it is. Even if we…

There were many great speeches opposing the new lockdown in the House of Commons on 4th November, but there were three which collectively summed up my reasons for opposing the…

Less than a year ago, Boris Johnson won an historic victory over the Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour Party. This saved the UK from being dragged into a Venezuelan like economic and…

It is not controversial, I hope, to point out that this Government has exploited epidemiological uncertainty in service of the usual thing governments want: more power. The tedious description of…

Boris Johnson did not impose lockdown in March. He is imposing it now, moment to moment. And moment to moment the resulting spiritual and psychological harms are being reinforced as…

The battle of Waterloo was ‘won on the playing fields of Eton’ according to the Duke of Wellington. How fortunate we are to have a sports-mad, old Etonian for a…

The deconstruction of the traditional family, with the aim of its destruction, has been at the top of the list for many major international organisations and foundations, many of whom…

Lockdown has inevitably changed how we look at work and may well have accelerated the possibility of remote working becoming the norm for many people. It is not a stretch…