Dominic Cummings
Total 96 Posts
Six lessons the UK should have learned, one year on from its first lockdown.
8 min read
Act quickly, act decisively, trust people, communicate clearly, tackle inequality and be prepared.
Resist the temptation to see Dominic Cummings as a svengali.
4 min read
The idea that Boris Johnson was under some kind of spell during the Cummings era is a convenient one for him.
Brexit, beached.
13 min read
With Trump and Cummings going the Brexit project is beached on the mudflaps of history, and with its deepest flaws about ‘independence’ ever clearer Boris Johnson can no longer duck the choice of purism or pragmatism, writes Professor Chris Grey.
The priority.
5 min read
Well, now, if nothing else, we know where Johnson and the Tories draw the line. It turns out that there are after all some outrages that they will not tolerate.
Time to ditch Dominic Cummings’ technocratic, mechanical vision of government.
5 min read
Politics cannot be separated from emotion, as the past few months have clearly shown.
The government fundamentally doesn’t want to govern. It just wants to campaign.
3 min read
They have stuffed the cabinet with people who start fights every day but there is no positive policy on any of these things and not one of them is able to govern. They are just left with an instinct to fight.