Debenhams will close the doors of its remaining U.K. stores for the final time this weekend because of lockdown, bringing more than 240 years of retail history to an end.
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In an article promoting global government, the Telegraph's Global Health Security correspondents have made the bizarre claim that public health lockdowns have no trade off with the economy. Misinformation, anyone?
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In a new paper, the economist Douglas Allen reviews the literature on the costs and benefits of lockdown. He concludes that the costs of Canada's lockdown far outweighed the benefits.
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According to a new report by the Royal Academy, the UK faces a decade of misery thanks to... well, the RA says "the pandemic" but it's the lockdowns, obvs. Damage caused by the "pandemic" much less in Sweden and Florida.
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The Government borrowed £19 billion in February, the highest since records began in 1993. Net debt has risen by £333 billion since last April, highlighting the relationship between lockdown stringency and economic harm.
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Nearly 40% of theatre and arts workers in London have been made redundant since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, according to ITV News. Will the West End ever recover?
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New data establishes the relationship between the strictness of lockdowns and the level of economic harm. Will this lead to a more frank discussion on the trade-offs of having one of the strictest lockdowns in the OECD?
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Spiralling costs and debt, lockdown being lifted agonisingly slowly – yet plummeting cases and deaths, hospitals back to autumn levels, and a world-beating vaccine programme. What is the Government playing at?
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