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The UK government applies lockdown differently to many other countries, preferring to encourage new habits of social interaction rather than dictate or prescribe them. However, using language [...]

As we approach the first anniversary of the pandemic outbreak, it is clear that the future of work is going to change forever, and normal is not something to which reversion is possible. Managing [...]

Whether the UK leaves the EU with or without a trade deal, the UK government will claim it has achieved a victory: the UK will have regained its sovereignty after 45 years. However sovereignty [...]

Vaccine approval by the MHRA and the early supplies of the Pfizer drug from Belgium are both welcome, only anti-vaxers would say otherwise, but why has the government suddenly altered the top [...]

Many people believe that Boris Johnson should have sacked his Home Secretary, Priti Patel, for breaching the ministerial code. Certainly the Prime Minister’s personal advisor Sir Anthony Allan [...]

We define a good leader as one who is appropriate for the situation: someone who brings stability to chaotic upheaval, or conversely someone who brings disruptive change to stagnant inertia. In [...]

Reputation damage is costly and that is why so many people and organisations would like to insure it against loss. Unfortunately it cannot be insured because reputation is a behavioural risk; [...]

Borders are critical as any student of political geography will tell you, irrespective of what is happening in Azerbaijan or Ulster. The can that has been kicked down the road for three years [...]

The UK government policy change from ‘Stay at home’ to ‘Stay alert’ represents a watershed moment in the country’s response to coronavirus.  What was previous an unacceptable risk has [...]

Did the government achieve its target of 100,000 tests by 30 April? A third of these were not executed by health officials at test sites, mobile or fixed, but were home tests dispatched for [...]