Billions of pounds were spent on unusable protective equipment, with priority contracts handed to associates of Conservative ministers
Coronavirus
Keir Starmer's right hand man throws his weight behind the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice, and says inequality played a major factor in the pandemic
When it became apparent that natural immunity would not prevent a second wave, right-wing media backed calls to remove measures and allow immunity to build up via infections
Ex-Serious Fraud Office chief Sir David Green KC says he is "depressed" about the apparent downgrading of the role
I have been regularly following the scientific literature on the labour market impacts of COVID-19 and as the evidence is becoming richer we are getting a clearer idea of those impacts. The short conclusion is that public health policy makers, under pressure from ill-informed individual and corporate interests, have failed dramatically to protect the public…
Long Covid Kids and Long Covid Scotland met the legal tests of having 'significant interest' in matters being investigated, but they were not granted core participant status
A damning first report from the COVID Inquiry reveals how three successive Health and Social Care Secretaries failed to put a plan in place to handle the crisis that struck
It’s Wednesday and as usual I present commentary on a range of topics that are of interest to me. They don’t have to be connected in any particular way. Today, RBA interest rate decisions, COVID and some great music. Yesterday, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) held their target interest rate constant. In their media…
Groups representing UK sufferers are "very disappointed" as the US recently allocated another $515 million in research funding for what it called an "urgent healthcare crisis"
I regularly scan research output from disciplines other than economics that I think impacts on economic matters. On April 17, 2024, a new study from medical researchers at the Burnett Institute in Melbourne, working with staff at the Department of Health and Human Services, in Victoria published a pre-print in The Lancet – Admission Screening…