Oct 24, 2020
What with all the excitements of last week – the rock star mayor of Manchester winning a moral war in spite of losing a tactical battle, the prison doors slamming shut on more swathes of the population, another Treasury rescue for desperate businesses – you might have missed what could have been the most significant […]
Oct 23, 2020
Libraries have seen a surge in e-book borrowing amid concerns over book hygiene during the height of lockdown. Borrowing of e -books soared between the end of March and mid-August with an increase of 146 per cent, a new study from the charity Libraries Connected...
Oct 23, 2020
A strict lockdown for the over-60s was considered by Government scientists to allow Covid immunity to build up in the younger population but was dismissed as unworkable, a Sage paper reveals. Sir Patrick Vallance, the Government’s chief scientific adviser,...
Oct 22, 2020
Lockdown has led to a 50 per cent rise in children with mental health problems, NHS data suggests, amid warnings that isolation has been “toxic” for Britain’s youth. The figures from national research on more than 3,000 families found that one in six children were...
Oct 21, 2020
Has it worked anywhere else? The term “circuit breaker” came to prominence in April to describe the steps taken by the Singaporean Government. While the virus had been detected in the country in January, it took until spring for the state to implement a...
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