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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (22nd January, 2024) Dominic Cummings is far from the ideal person to deliver warnings about dangers of misinformation, given his track record. Yet [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (19th July, 2021) It is easy to forget that when the pandemic first emerged from Wuhan, many people in the West feared democratic [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The I paper (26th April, 2021) The exit of Johnny Mercer from the Government last week provided a perfect vignette for all that is wrong with Westminster. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Trust: the missing ingredient in our pandemic response</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (14th September, 2020) Boris Johnson hailed ‘a new dawn’ for Britain after winning an election based on the slogan that he would get [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (1st June, 2020) Clearly Dominic Cummings has little respect for rules. So he must be delighted to have shattered one of the most oft-heard [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (25th May, 2020) The strange thing about politics is how stories about one person’s behaviour can detonate like a lethal missile as they [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by UnHerd (13th May, 2020) The Government’s bid to soften lockdown was a communications disaster. The latest slogan makes little sense compared with the ‘Stay at Home’ [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Daily Mail (25th February, 2020) Early skirmishes have erupted into open warfare bet-ween the Government and the army of civil servants resisting a Whitehall shake-up. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (17th February, 2020) Lynn Davidson may not be everyone’s idea of a hero. She is a former journalist on The Sun who works [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (16th December, 2019) As soon as I heard the exit poll on election night, I felt strangely sanguine. I had lost, and so [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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