Dominic Cummings: Powerful people are the most likely to break the rules – even if they make them.
Do people at the top think there is one rule for them and one rule for others? Bluntly, yes, they do. [Read now...]
Coronavirus: Survey reveals what the public wants from a contact-tracing app.
While a sense of common fate was a strong force in the early weeks of lockdown, it’s less clear that the same will be true in this next period. [Read now...]
Values in the age of coronavirus: How a disease changed what it means to live a virtuous life.
Political messaging may be harder if citizens demand accuracy and experts. Boasts will not just win headlines and disappear. They will echo and haunt. [Read now...]
Why Boris Johnson’s Sunday statement is a conveniently timed press exercise.
For the government, a Sunday announcement has several advantages, many of them to do with the news agenda. [Read now...]
Coronavirus: The tactics we will see as Boris Johnson seeks to avoid blame.
After dealing with the initial health crisis, Boris Johnson must find a narrative that puts his team in a good light. [Read now...]
Post-coronavirus economic thinking could go one of two ways in the UK.
The crisis could provide the perfect reason for the Conservatives to expand the state to appeal to their new voter base. But they might also head in the opposite direction. [Read now...]
How do voters feel about delaying the end of the transition?
For the first time since the EU referendum, Brexit has gone on the backburner of media attention as the UK endeavours to get on top of the coronavirus pandemic. Yet there are still decisions to be made. [Read now...]
Government and Covid-19: Distract, deflect, blame.
In this brilliant thread on the government’s communication strategy, James O’Brien perfectly sums up the Brexit legacy and how the tories are unashamedly misleading the public and playing politics during the coronavirus pandemic. [Read now...]
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Boris Johnson is in intensive care, so who is in charge in the UK?
To understand what is going on, it helps to look back at past leaders and their first secretaries. [Read now...]
Three reasons why Jacinda Ardern’s coronavirus response has been a masterclass in crisis leadership.
As someone who researches and teaches leadership, I’d argue New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is giving most Western politicians a masterclass in crisis leadership. [Read now...]
