The British state has a bad case of long covid
4 days, 2 hours ago

The British state has a bad case of long covid

Hindustan Times  

Coronavirus in Britain is a story of individual grief and collective amnesia. Court sitting days have swelled, as has the proportion that are wasted because files are unprepared or prison vans don’t turn up; delays beget delays, because as cases get older evidence goes stale. With heroic levels of productivity growth, the suppression of demand and considerable luck, Sir Keir Starmer might just meet his target of bringing NHS waiting times to where they stood in the mid-2010s. Like Clement Attlee, he vowed to build from the rubble of covid “a country worthy of the sacrifices of the British people”. In the general election of 1951 Attlee got the boot, and Winston Churchill returned to power with a promise to leave wartime privation behind with an era of “freedom and abundance”.

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The Telegraph  

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CNN  

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4 years ago

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Daily Mail  

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Daily Mail  

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Live Mint  

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ABC  

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Daily Mail  

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The Hindu  

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