Tag: Cummings

How Dominic Cummings pushed us into lockdown – Part 3

In Part 1 on Tuesday I examined Dominic Cummings’s project for government reform and his operational plan for improving government decision-making in uncertain situations. Yesterday I looked at how his operational plan worked in early 2020, resulting in his Red Team advisers persuading him to support lockdown. In this third and final part I describe how he […]

How Dominic Cummings pushed us into lockdown – Part 2

In Part 1 yesterday I examined Dominic Cummings’s project for government reform and his operational plan for improving government decision-making in uncertain situations. Today I will look at how his operational plan worked in early 2020, resulting in his Red Team advisers persuading him to support lockdown. THE first death attributed to coronavirus in the […]

How Dominic Cummings pushed us into lockdown – Part 1

IT’S FOUR years since the dystopian nightmare of the covid lockdown befell the United Kingdom. The grossly disproportionate measure of putting the entire population under house arrest to prevent encounters with a respiratory infection appears no more rational now than it did then. In re-examining how the government arrived at this draconian decision, it is […]

Dominic Cummings, and other useless gurus

‘People in this country have had enough of experts from organisations with acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong’. In one of his rare insights, Michael Gove nailed the experts predicting economic disaster after Brexit, with words that are just as true for climate change and Covid scaremongering. But there’s […]