I’ve Been Everywhere: the Covid-19 version
Finally, a version of I’ve been everywhere that is even better than the John Finnemore Dorset version. … Read the full post »
Coronavirus
Read my posts about the coronavirus crisis, focusing particularly on how the Liberal Democrats responded and its impact on the party.
No child in Portsmouth will go hungry
Good work by Gerald Vernon-Jackson and colleagues on Portsmouth Council, setting in where the government has failed. … Read the full post »
Lib Dems secure government commitment to publish test and trace agreement with police
Liberal Democrat Paul Scriven has secured a commitment from Health Minister Lord Bethell to publish the agreement between the Government and police chiefs over the decision to share test and trace data. … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrats back circuit-breaker lockdown to control Covid-19
Ed Davey says that the government needs to go further and backs a circuit breaker lockdown. … Read the full post »
Research report on coronavirus fake news gets misreported by media
At first glance, this BBC story seems straightforward enough, but dig into the research and you find a very different story. … Read the full post »
PODCAST – What we can learn from Republicans campaigning against Donald Trump
Laura Shields and Dirk Singer, communications consultants, members of Democrats Abroad and authors of an excellent piece “Swimming with the sharks: What progressives can learn from Republicans Against Trump” join me for the latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts. … Read the full post »
Why we both must and mustn’t get use to living with coronavirus
We must get used to living with coronavirus. The virus is still in widespread circulation in the community… … Read the full post »
Learn more about our brilliant Community Champions
Over on the Liberal Democrat website you can now read about some of our best colleagues, volunteers who have been doing amazing things in their communities to help deal with coronavirus. … Read the full post »
If you can work from home, you should – and that includes you, Jacob Rees-Mogg
The latest data from the Office for National Statistics shows how rates of positive tests for COVID-19 appear higher for individuals who work outside the home compared with those who work from home. … Read the full post »
UK’s top statistics expert criticises government’s coronavirus test data
“Testing statistics still fall well short” of official standards – that’s the damning verdict from the Chair of the UK Statistics Authority, David Norgrove. … Read the full post »