The Government is lurching around when what’s urgently needed is a clear message, communicated simply, and coronavirus confusion and chaos is the fatal result.
Fresh restrictions in North East England, this time banning mixing between households, leave 16 million people under local lockdowns across a Disunited Kingdom.
It’s no wonder that public compliance is falling when no evidence is produced to justify 10pm pub curfews, and the mayors of Greater Manchester and Merseyside warn it is backfiring dangerously as people buy alcohol in supermarkets to continue partying on streets.
The mixed messages on whether students will be confined to campuses over Christmas also betrays an unforgivable lack of planning.
Boris Johnson’s incompetence and lack of leadership is fuelling the renewed spread of the virus, posing a grave risk to lives.
The Prime Minister and Cabinet must get a grip quickly. Mistakes early on were understandable. Not any more.
Dodger Don
Donald Trump either avoided his taxes on an industrial scale or is a much worse businessman than he pretends.
If he really did pay less than £600 in tax the year he was elected, and nothing in 10 of the previous 15 years, it is no wonder he was the first Presidential candidate in decades who refused to release personal tax records.
On the eve of the first TV debate with rival Joe Biden, experience teaches us facts dismissed as “Fake News” by Trump are true.
If the leak is inaccurate, Trump could always publish his own. That he doesn’t tells its own story. If tax-paying Americans re-elect him in November, they will pay a high price.
Pup stars
The RSPCA backing our campaign to ban the import of dogs from overseas puppy farms is a major boost.
Celebrity supporters are welcome, but the backing of the country’s largest animal welfare group is a real pat on the head.
