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Vote Your Conscience | National Review
A few thoughts on next week, the previous four years, and the future.
Daniel Hannan: We need Ministers’ estimate of the cost of the lockdown to lives and livelihoods
Publishing the figures will underline that Ministers are striving to be balanced. Never mind how it looks, though: better statistics will lead to better decisions.
Daniel Hannan
To measure is to know. The government need to publish estimates of the cost of the lockdown - not just the direct monetary costs but (to the extent that they can be worked out) the impact on education, mental health and so on.
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Daniel Hannan
Governments around the world promised to tackle Covid "at any cost" - not pausing to consider what was implied by those three little words. We need a proper impact analysis. To measure is to know.
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Coronavirus: 14-day quarantine for Covid contacts could be reduced
It comes as a senior Conservative MP criticises leaders of NHS Test and Trace, urging "decisive" change.
Daniel Hannan
"Five days we do allot thee for provision
To shield thee from diseases of the world."
#NothingEscapesShakespeare
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Coronavirus: Welsh first minister Mark Drakeford says Boris Johnson government is 'undermining devolution'
Mr Drakeford asks why freedom of movement in England seems "more important" to the PM than protecting the Welsh public.
New Zealand is Britons’ favourite country | YouGov
North Korea languishes at the bottom of the list
Ministers must end their attacks on lawyers | Letter
Letter: Barristers, solicitors, legal academics and retired judges call for the home secretary and the prime minister to apologise for past remarks and refrain from using hostile language
Daniel Hannan
"They're saying we're a bunch of Leftie lawyers."
"Outrageous! What can we do about it?"
"How about a letter to the Guardian?"
"Brilliant!"
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COVID-19 is destroying global freedom, and it may not rebound
The pre-COVID-19 order isn’t coming back, “for the former things are passed away.”
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Daniel Hannan
The old order is not coming back. The world that lies on the other side of the lockdowns will be colder, harsher, more pinched. Power is shifting to the autocracies. Even in the liberal West, authoritarianism is ascendant.
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Unknown Warrior remains likely to be of white man due to 'racial bias'
The mystery troop's body was brought from France and buried in the church on November 11, 1920, but research now suggests 'unconscious bias' may have influenced selection of the body.
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Daniel Hannan
There is something almost awe-inspiring about the wokies' combination of stupidity and certainty. The fact that race WASN'T discussed when the body of the Unknown Soldier was chosen is treated as evidence of racism.
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Taking back control of fishing could be an enormous growth opportunity for Britain
Brexit is a chance to revive towns devastated by the Common Fisheries Policy
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Daniel Hannan
Fishing is currently a tiny fraction of our economy. But there is vast growth potential in using fish in cosmetic and health supplements. Bones, scales, guts, heads, enzymes - almost all can be monetised. Hull and Grimsby could be reborn as pharma hubs.
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Public opinion is turning against lockdown and Labour’s cynical Covid opportunism
A sensitive politician knows when the wind is about to change - Sir Keir lacks the PM's sixth sense
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Daniel Hannan
For the first time, public opinion is turning against the lockdown. Our mood will darken with the shortening days. Labour could not have timed its break with bipartisanship more ineptly.
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MEPs accused of voting for 'death sentence on nature and climate’
‘There are no reasons to spend a third of the EU budget on industrial agriculture which drives biodiversity loss and worsens the climate crisis,’ says critic
Supermarkets told sell only essentials in Wales lockdown
Retailers will be told to sell only essential items when Wales goes into a two-week lockdown.
Coronavirus: how much is a life worth?
A global recession could be even worse than millions of COVID-19 deaths.
U.S., Britain upbeat as trade talks enter new round
The United States and Britain expressed optimism about the prospects of a trade deal on Tuesday as they launched the latest round of talks focused on goods and tariffs.
Our students are trapped in a psychological experiment | The Spectator
Freshers across the country are being subjected to a psychological experiment that would never have been imagined, let alone sanctioned, before Covid-19 plunged the world into restrictive measures. Whether they will do any more than flatten curves...
Daniel Hannan
As with our schools so, now, with our universities. Some are treating the restrictions as a challenge to overcome, others as an excuse to do less. Thank you to every academic who has carried on teaching in person.
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Only 6% of Leeds residents want statues of historical figures removed
The review, chaired by Alison Lowe - Leeds' first black female city councillor - looked into statues and monuments including Queen Victoria, Robert Peel, Edward Black Prince and Arthur Wellesley.
Daniel Hannan
Extraordinary and shameful that institutional Britain - universities, corporations, civil servants, politicians, police chiefs - quailed before such a tiny fringe.
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Trade deal with New Zealand in reach after Jacinda Ardern's landslide victory, Liz Truss says
Ministers hope to accelerate talks with New Zealand now that the Japan trade deal has been completed
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