Our weak human judgment of risk may have led to a lockdown disaster
In every walk of life we accept that some degree of risk is inevitable. Crossing the road, taking a shower or playing golf in a
In every walk of life we accept that some degree of risk is inevitable. Crossing the road, taking a shower or playing golf in a
After several months of enduring semi-isolation save for the diversions provided by a handful of country house gardens, we were itching to go abroad.
By the beginning of April the coronavirus pandemic meant approximately 1.5 billion children were locked down at home, out of education. Four months later, after the longest
In Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 film The Seventh Seal, set during the Black Death, a group of travelling players performs an absurd dance number to villagers –
In lost work and ruined social lives, younger people have been hit hard by the impact of Covid-19 and the draconian lockdown.
In 2006 the Better Regulation Commission published a rather good document titled “Risk, Responsibility and Regulation: whose risk is it anyway?”. In the introduction it
The latest news that Boris Johnson wishes to appoint a spokesperson specifically for the Covid crisis, at a salary of around £100,000 a year, has
Sir Patrick Vallance is concerned that Britain’s coronavirus pandemic is two to three weeks behind Spain. The government as a whole has been on high-alert since
It is always easier to say what one would have done differently with the benefit of hindsight. But as the UK continues to emerge from
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