The UK House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) released a scathing report on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) on Friday, highlighting “errors dating as far back as 1985.” Problems with the state pension payment system have resulted in an estimated 134,000 pensioners being underpaid by over £1 …
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Readers in the UK, Europe and America may find these figures difficult to believe – but they underlie the unique nature of Covid politics in Australia. Australia’s success came about because Prime Minister Morrison closed our borders to international travellers in March 2020, and shortly afterwards established a national cabinet, …
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The news has been full of images of NHS intensive care units full to bursting. When cases shot up from mid-December, particularly in London and the South East, rising hospital admissions soon followed. This potential to ‘overwhelm‘ NHS capacity was a significant factor in introducing the third lockdown and in …
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Reports of consumers and producers for March showed that the blow to the economy of coronavirus was deeper in the first week of the shutdown than expected. March retail sales fell by 8.7%, which is the largest index of government data, and manufacturing activity in new York reached a record …
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