Coronavirus
Managing extreme risks
The government has failed to learn from the Covid pandemic: the new administration must take action to ensure the UK is better prepared next time.
What role should modelling play in a crisis?
Ben Chu and Neil Ferguson joined our panel to explore the role of modelling in the Covid pandemic and the lessons that ministers should learn.
In conversation with Wes Streeting MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Wes Streeting MP discussed how Labour would tackle waiting list backlogs, address workforce problems and reform the social care system.
How well did government evidence for Covid-19 policies serve society?
Greg Clark MP joined Tracey Brown, Director of Sense about Science, to discuss what society needed to know about Covid-19.
DVLA during the pandemic: hamstrung by competing priorities
The UK and devolved governments must make complex trade-offs more collaboratively or risk a repeat of DVLA’s pandemic troubles elsewhere.
Coronavirus: what support did government provide for individuals and businesses?
This explainer lays out the main economic support schemes provided by the UK government during the pandemic, how much they cost and who benefited.
“Partygate” investigations
Partygate refers to the allegations of gatherings and parties taking place during the Covid lockdowns in 2020.
Licence to lead: lessons for public bodies from the pandemic response in health
Government should trust public bodies to lead in crises.
The government's 'Living with Covid-19' plan: high on optimism, low on detail
Rosa Hodgkin finds a worrying lack of detail, and an excessive dose of optimism, in the government's plan for living with Covid
How has Covid-19 changed the way government works? Whitehall Monitor 2022 report launch
This report launch explored what Whitehall Monitor 2022 reveals about the way the pandemic has changed how the government works.