• Mashup Score: 14

    The Keep Calm and Carry On slogan on my coffee mug seemed quaintly amusing in better times. As the second wave of coronavirus sweeps Europe, I am clinging to its wartime message. Nine months into this battle against a pandemic, we need to stop treating Covid-19 as an emergency, panicking over every new statistic, and start planning for the long haul.

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  • Mashup Score: 9

    The NHS’s test and trace system isn’t working. Why? Because we have no strategy, and the public sector has been utterly sidelined. Boris Johnson, true to his ideological beliefs, has outsourced the Covid response to big private companies, the likes of Serco and Deloitte. It’s like designing a car and not putting the engine in.

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