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Chris BlackhurstChris Blackhurst | Columnists

Chris Blackhurst is a former editor of The Independent, now executive director at Sir Lynton Crosby's CTF Partners. He writes in a personal capacity.
Chris Blackhurst is a former editor of The Independent, now executive director at Sir Lynton Crosby's CTF Partners. He writes in a personal capacity.
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WFH will bust businesses and make people lonely. What’s the point?

Chris BlackhurstChris Blackhurst | Columnists

When it comes to Covid measures, confusion and chaos reign.

empty ward - private hopsitals

Wasteful payments to private hospitals is England’s forgotten Covid healthcare scandal

Chris BlackhurstChris Blackhurst | Covid

NHS England paid private hospitals billions of pounds to buy beds that were hardly touched, while private hospitals received tens of millions in furlough payments. Now, record waiting lists will play into their hands once again.

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Football does not need a state – sorry, independent – regulator

Chris BlackhurstChris Blackhurst | Sport

A watchdog sounds good in theory – but it will drive away free-spirited entrepreneurs who want to own their local club and it will cause endless disputes and litigation.

Cambridge, UK

The Oxford-Cambridge Arc: another big-ticket project Boris looks set to abandon

Chris BlackhurstChris Blackhurst | Columnists

The PM’s plans to build one million new homes and improve transport links between Oxford and Cambridge are coming under fire.

Tracey Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire

Betraying Leeds on levelling up and favouring Manchester won’t end well for Johnson

Chris BlackhurstChris Blackhurst | Columnists

Scrapping the HS2 link to Leeds is a dangerous move, especially when resentment in the region already simmers at Manchester’s self-promotion.

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State funding of parties needed to deal with sleaze

Chris BlackhurstChris Blackhurst | Columnists

John Major failed to really make a difference by setting up a standards committee. We need wholesale reform to the way political parties are funded.

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Electric cars for trainee lawyers? Spare us the gimmicks

Chris BlackhurstChris Blackhurst | Columnists

Despite the empty, right on gestures, City law firms haven’t really changed.

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Boris’ bonhomie masks the government’s Kafkaesque secrecy

Chris BlackhurstChris Blackhurst | Columnists

For all the talk of openness and transparency, the government’s woeful record on responding to Freedom of Information requests is undermining democracy.

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Tackling online abuse: banning anonymous accounts isn’t the solution

Chris BlackhurstChris Blackhurst | Columnists

Ending the right to online anonymity puts pro-democracy activists at risk. Clean Up The Internet has a better solution – one that doesn’t place the onus on tech companies.

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