Kate Hawkesby: We've said goodbye to traffic lights, please can we say goodbye to the epidemiologists

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Sep 13, 2022 · 3m

So the Government’s looking at potential scope for a Covid review, and “taking advice”.

That in and of itself should ring alarm bells given no government has ordered more reviews than this lot. They ordered reviews like a teenager ordering Uber Eats with their parents credit card. Reviews all round, bugger the expense. So now to pause, reflect, and take advice, seems out of character. It seems a stalling technique.

That aside, the taking advice bit is the other thing this Government’s record has been questionable on. They talked a big game – and often – about all the ‘advice’ they were taking…