The vaccine goalposts have shifted
British Health Secretary Matt Hancock provided a vaccine update this morning London time, reporting that the chances of the Oxford…
Will the next U-turn be on face masks at work?
There’s a new trend emerging when it comes to Covid-19 policy: where Scotland leads, England follows. In recent weeks, decisions…
Public Health England scrapped over handling of Covid crisis
Health Secretary Matt Hancock is set to scrap Public Health England (PHE), according to the Sunday Telegraph – the body that was…
False economy
Britain is losing the race to recovery
Has Sweden been vindicated?
Sweden has released growth figures for the second quarter – a contraction of 8.6 per cent – and two narratives…
No, Trump can’t delay the election
While cries of ‘authoritarian dictator’ have been lobbied at the President by America’s progressives over the past three and a…
Boris Johnson’s plan for ‘significant normality’
Normally Fridays are spent thinking about how to unwind from work. Today though Boris Johnson announced changes to government guidance…
The magic money tree
Big spending. Huge debts. What can possibly go wrong?
Does Boris’s ‘new deal’ offer anything new?
Today Boris Johnson launched his ‘new deal’ for Britain – billed as an economic recovery plan to follow the Covid…
Lethal force
The truth about America’s police culture
How fast can Britain recover from its economic free-fall?
Putting the UK into lockdown was only going to send growth in one direction: down. While today’s figures from the…
The truth about America’s police culture
America can often look, to outsiders, like a country of two warring tribes: the Trumpish anti-PC brigade vs the woke…
America’s 2.5 million jobs miracle
The US economy created 2.5 million jobs last month — the biggest monthly jobs gain since records began a century…
Could negative gilt yields be Boris Johnson’s magic money tree?
A few months ago, Boris Johnson fought a general election saying that there was no ‘magic money tree’ and accusing…
Stimulus squabble marks a return to politics as usual
Who is the proposed new $3 trillion stimulus package designed to help? If enacted, the bill — which narrowly passed…
Do the experts believe in the R number?
The R-number has been declared the most important metric in monitoring Covid in Britain. For young children to return to school…
Can we rely on a V-shaped recovery?
Can the UK expect a V-shape recovery? The Bank of England has this morning published data revealing very deep V,…
The problem with immunity passports
Could we see ‘immunity passports’ in Britain? Ministers are reportedly discussing them as a route out of lockdown. According to today’s…
If austerity is off the table, how do we pay for Covid-19 costs?
What is the true cost of Covid-19? No one knows – yet. But it’s not going to be cheap. The…
Coronomics
The crash is surreal – and ordinary remedies won’t be enough
Rishi Sunak’s ‘unprecedented’ wage guarantee
When Chancellor Riski Sunak unleashed a colossal package for business earlier this week, with over £350bn in loans, grants and…
Will the Chancellor’s £330bn stimulus tackle Covid-19 fears?
Last week’s £12bn stimulus package to tackle the health and economic consequences of Covid-19 now seems like a drop in…
Seven extraordinary graphs which show the economic impact of Covid-19
We’ve just seen one of the worst weeks in stock market history, with the FTSE100 ending on Friday 17 per…
Fracking fears
America is caught in the crossfire
Planet corona
Does coronavirus mark a turning point in the history of hyper-globalisation?
