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The Covid-19 pandemic has come as a very critical disaster to the world and it has affected nearly every part of the world. The pandemic has made the health and food security crisis worst. It is affecting millions of people across the globe so it has become the challenge to the policy makers and statesmenContinue reading “Covid-19: Emerging challenges can be addressed to harness them as opportunities for a sustainable future”

The U.K.‚’s response to the pandemic has been slow to get going in part through an inability to contact, track and understand the differing challenges of both the resident population and the international movements of people. Those countries that responded and performed relatively well appear to be either comparatively easy to isolate internationally (eg NZ),Continue reading “De-generalise the U.K. population”

The pandemic has highlighted the need to deal with some of the more complex climate crisis issues and one of these is the need to make our existing housing stock more energy efficient.     1828-2

The pandemic has highlighted failings in social care, highlighted ways the NHS could work better (and sometimes implemented these), and thrown up problems in education which has resulted in many people suggesting we need to rethink.     1819-2

I am Clerk to eleven Almshouse Charities in the North East Essex area based on Colchester & Trustee to a further 14 Almshouse Charities in Essex & Hertfordshire. The Charities provide independent living to , mostly , older & vulnerable people and some with learning disabilities. The Charities are responsible for the provision of goodContinue reading “In my professional & private life, the Covid 19 pandemic has illustrated just how vulnerable we all are in our lack of understanding of the internet & how harnessing the power of Full Fibre 5G digital/broadband /wifi can help to provide solutions to many underlying health/ social care/safeguarding issues.”

China is increasing its influence within many areas of the Commonwealth by its investment (broadly following the same ruthless rapacious empire-building approach that Britain once followed) whilst Britain has neglected the Commonwealth, not recognising that it has acquired an important identity of its own. The incredibly foolish action of the House of Windsor in turningContinue reading “The Commonwealth”

COVID-19 has hit the prospects of young people especially hard. Education has been interrupted, younger people are more likely to have been made unemployed and new graduates are saddled with debt and emerging into a world where quality jobs are scarce and economic activity is still unevenly distributed across the UK. As well as theContinue reading “How do we stop COVID from creating a lost generation of young people?”

Online retail has boomed under COVID and town centres have emptied. Delivery vans have become an increasingly common sight, often standing idle with their Diesel engines running whilst parcels are delivered. Surely this would be a good time to make delivery vans electric. The extra cost associated with upgrading the fleets will be passed onContinue reading “A green way to level retail”

The pandemic has exposed the UK‚’s lack of a manufacturing capability for new vaccines developed by Oxford University. We have the innovation and expertise but don‚’t always benefit from the manufacture and profit of our big ideas.     133-1

Responsibility for the entire Covid response is “expected by all” to be from government. Local Councils have been trimming their services (well before recent cuts and Covid), sub-contracting essential services at the expense of permanent local employemnt and funding their over-paid executives. In this crisis we might have expected local authorities and also individuals, toContinue reading “Encourage Local and Individual Response”