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The crucial facts Cummings left out tell a very different story of lockdown Documents from critical pre-lockdown meetings expose the glaring holes in the former adviser’s case 27 May 2021 • 9:15pm Rarely has the lid been blown off the British government machine in such a brutal and spectacular way. Dominic Cummings has invited us to see horrors. Barefaced lies, told by incompetent ministers, he claims. A Cabinet barely worthy of the name, led by a Prime Minister unfit for office, making decisions opposed not just to reason but (sometimes) the law. A spectacular trail of culpable failures ...

You can’t predict disasters, the historian Niall Ferguson rightly says. They’re too diverse to prepare for, and “we rarely get the disasters we expect”. When a disaster does occur, governments initially tend to underestimate its severity, a consequence often of their lack of imagination and their failure to learn from history. They look to the last crisis for examples of how

Why getting hacked should be more expensive Data breaches directly affect customers of businesses, but companies themselves have been getting off relatively lightly – so far. Where will you be celebrating the third birthday of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) tomorrow (Tuesday 25 May)? A bar with privacy-enhancing booths? That restaurant where everyone eats in the dark? Or perhaps simply by offering a friend a cookie they’re not sure they want, then making them sign a series of confusing forms in order to accept it? Three years ago, the EU implemented its data protection...

Rhys Clyne: Central and local government relationships need urgent repair 17 May 2021 Poor relations between Whitehall and town halls weakened the UK’s response to the pandemic, says the senior researcher at the Institute for Government. To coincide with the anniversary of the first national lockdown, the Institute for Government published a report setting out 10 lessons to learn from the response of UK government – at all levels – to the pandemic. We based our recommendations on a series of interviews with politicians and officials from local, devolved and central government, as...