Covid19 coronavirus

Next with Covid 19. Is it the economy, stupid?

Brian Walker on June 15, 2020, 10:06 am | Readers 1422

Newspaper subs are calling it “Manic Monday.” Are they right? How is it with you? Flash in the pan or setting a trend? This week marks the landmark of a return to shopping, the essential activity for economic revival while Covid is still active. It throws into relief the stark choice everybody hopes to finesse – health or wealth? The need for a strategy for revival is as vital as one for easing out of lockdown. In the UK neither …

Is authority split between the UK government and devolved “nations” helping or hindering the management of the pandemic?

Brian Walker on June 1, 2020, 12:00 pm | Readers 1495

Has the management of the pandemic further weakened the Union or behind the political noise, proved that Westminster and the governments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are essentially working well together? No doubt an only partly suppressed competition to win credit with the voters at the end of the day is being waged. But cooperation is to an extent made more difficult because the division of responsibilities isn’t always clear. The devolved governments run for example health and education …