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A seeming indifference towards failure over the R rate suggests a government which is happy for the virus to spread.

It's time to stop debating whether we should end the war on drugs, and instead debate how we end it.

The time for a lockdown is today, and this is why.

Disturbing trend points to an underlying disaster, hidden beneath the headlines about financial help.

Despite the risks of unnecessary deaths and massive morbidity, the theory is increasingly being championed as a viable option on both sides of the Atlantic.

We need both seriousness and the truth, and Johnson can supply neither.

Excel is completely unsuitable for handling such a vast and critical data project. Why was it being used?

We need, more than at any time in the post-war era, a prime minister who has a plan. But that is not what we have.

From Yugoslavia to Czechoslovakia, states can break up peacefully or violently. We can't afford to be complacent about what will happen to us.

An autumn surge is not an autumn surprise. It has been hypothesised since early in the pandemic.

Six arguments for why the population immunity argument is unsound.

Some the worst effects of Britain's outdated drug laws are in those places which are already suffering the most

The chronic underfunding of local public services, mixed with the ill-timed move to restructure councils, is the recipe for yet another government-made covid disaster.

The government is passing highly intrusive laws seemingly with little understanding of what they entail.

The truth is this: it is not clear that restarting large-scale in-person teaching is possible at present.