If there is a silver lining to the pandemic it is that the virus has taught us who matters and who we can count on when the chips are down. In this crisis the indispensable economic units are not bankers or multinationals but the corner shop, medics, supermarket staff, refuse collectors, carers, delivery drivers, first responders: ordinary folk.
What is also apparent is that, when faced with a big challenge some (but by no means all) parts of the state can respond with speed and simplicity: the furlough scheme being the most obvious example. A fiscally conservative Tory chancellor has […]
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