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Tag Archives: Boris Johnson
Enjoy summer safely in a pub?
There wasn’t much surety about Boris Johnson’s messaging in his briefing yesterday evening. The idea that having a few drinks in your local is a good idea is bonkers. I burst into laughter when the Prime Minister told me that … Continue reading
We had better get used to managing bad news;- (thoughts on 64,500 excess deaths).
The Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) has published its Mortality Monitor. Key points: – death rates 18% higher than same week last year – excess deaths this week were lower than the number of COVID-19 deaths – they estimate around 64,500 … Continue reading
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Tagged bad news, Boris Johnson, Covid-19, Death, Excess Deaths, Rishi Sunak
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Making our own rules; (Cummings II)
The Cummings and lack of goings of the past 48 hours are dividing Britain between the absolutists, the pragmatists and the people who just hate Dominic Cummings. I suspect the number of people who know Cummings well enough to hate … Continue reading
Posted in coronavirus, pensions
Tagged Bismarck, Boris Johnson, Covid-19, Cummings, Kaiser Wilhelm, Road trip
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We get what we vote for – 15 years of Tory rule.
A defining moment for the Conservative party. We have voted in a Conservative Government and by the end of 2024 we will have pretty well fifteen years with a Conservative Prime Minister. The Labour party has made just one gain … Continue reading
Elections destroy trust and time
By this time tomorrow, I will have cast my vote in what is being called the most important election in a generation. Of course it isn’t any such thing, it is just an adjustment to the dial if power. At … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, age wage, pensions
Tagged Boris Johnson, General Election 2019, Jeremy Corbyn, pensions, Politics
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Compassion comes hard
Tried to show @BorisJohnson the picture of Jack Williment-Barr. The 4-year-old with suspected pneumonia forced to lie on a pile of coats on the floor of a Leeds hospital. The PM grabbed my phone and put it in his pocket: … Continue reading
Boris and those letters – the legal facts.
Sometimes only a thread of tweets will do. Thanks to David Allen Green, who’s a legal correspondent to the FT and to Jo Cumbo- who promoted the tweets, I got it. Here’s the thread , click here for the man … Continue reading
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Tagged Boris Johnson, Brexit, David Allen Green, Dominic Cummings, Number ten source, Padfield
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Why this pensions bill matters
A Pensions Schemes Bill has been included in the Queen’s Speech , which lays out the legislative plans for the forthcoming parliamentary session. This bill includes legislation to enable the pensions dashboard and collective defined contribution (CDC) schemes to … Continue reading
Posted in #WASPI, advice gap, age wage, CDC, Dashboard, pensions
Tagged Boris Johnson, CDC, consolidation, Pensions Dashboard, Queen, Queen's Speech, WASPI
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“A dementia tax- by any other name”- guest blog from Alex Adamou
Thanks to Alexander for this excellent blog and for Con Keating for sending it to me. After watching an unusually shallow discussion of the so-called “dementia tax” on This Week last night, I want to give my take on it. … Continue reading
