Social Distancing: How Far? How Long For?

Social Distancing: How Far? How Long For?

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Time to relax the rules? Isolation, especially when imposed rather than chosen, is hard. No wonder solitary confinement is a punishment. Periods of quiet, retreat, solitariness are valuable as a contrast to life’s normal noisy busyness. Above all, they are chosen and can be broken at will, our will. Humans crave and seek intimacy and closeness and communal activities. Socialisation and socialising – in their widest sense – are necessary for the sound development of the child and joy as…

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Wear and tear. The fate of Dominic Cummings

Wear and tear. The fate of Dominic Cummings

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We become what we hate, so yogis tell us. For Dominic Cummings, son-in-law of a baronet and nephew of a judge, the transition to unelected and unaccountable metropolitan elitist was a short journey. The Prime Minister has thrown his weight behind him for now and the Cabinet were dutifully tweeting on behalf of a devoted family man who felt the compelling need to drive the length of the country to self-isolate in his other home. Will this last?   The answer may depend…

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In other news Starmer moves to a net 24% lead over Johnson in latest Opinium approval ratings

In other news Starmer moves to a net 24% lead over Johnson in latest Opinium approval ratings

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A third of Tory voters disapprove of Starmer compared with three-quarters of LAB voters disapproving of Johnson The latest Opinium poll carried out before the Cummings lockdown affair came out overnight and the big change has been in the approval ratings of the PM and LOTO. The charts above show the recent trends. A big development is that for the first time Starmer has moved ahead of Johnson and he’s done it with a spectacular jump in just seven days….

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Why Dominic Cummings Should resign (from a fan)

Why Dominic Cummings Should resign (from a fan)

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A guest slot from Richard Tyndall First a declaration of my view of Dominic Cummings.  I am a huge fan both of the man himself, of what he has tried to achieve over many years, and of his successes as a political advisor and brains behind the Leave campaign. So it should be clear that my views on the Durham-gate affair are not based on personal antipathy towards him. In an ideal world I would want nothing more than for…

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Team Boris should be very worried about the first Cummings polling from YouGov which goes very much against what he did

Team Boris should be very worried about the first Cummings polling from YouGov which goes very much against what he did

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The political splits here should be worrying for Number 10. By backing Cummings they are going very much against what voters think . Thus looking at the party splits a majority of CON voters think he was wrong while Leave voters split 45% to 37% that he should resign. No doubt we’ll see more polling in the next few hours.

Who loves Dom?

Who loves Dom?

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Cummings has burnt too many bridges to survive committing the cardinal British political sin: hypocricy 25 January 2016 is not a date that has gone down in history. Despite that, the events of that day were critical to Britain voting to leave the EU, with all that’s meant since. That morning, Dominic Cummings was summoned to a meeting that was intended to remove him from running the Vote Leave campaign. The meeting did not turn out as its board intended….

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