Looking backwards

Official city status, and why it sucks; a map that shows that you see things wrong; and lessons not learned from Covid.

The truly unforgivable thing, looking back, is the autumn. 

We’ve all, by now, seen news coverage of the cross party Commons Health Select Committee’s latest report on the government response to covid. It finds that, in the early weeks of the crisis, the Johnson government followed a strategy that amounted to pursuing herd immunity, not by any active dec…