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During the last year Covid-19 has caused disruptions within our society that have not been seen for many years. There is no doubt that mistakes were made and lessons need to be learnt for future. There are many obvious questions that arise as a result of the crisis. Many people might say that the governmentContinue reading “Fixing the problems which COVID-19 has exposed within the NHS and the Care Sector.”

The debate on automation of mining operations is not new and has often raised different views. For mineworkers especially in developing countries, where mining is the main source of income, automation marks the beginning of hell. They will lose their source of income and the entire community will fall in a more deep poverty. But,CovidContinue reading “Automation and Capacity building in the mining sector: seizing the best out of Covid-19”

In February 2020, I was sexually assaulted by a senior Emirati royal whilst working abroad for the Hay Festival in Abu Dhabi. With Foreign Office assistance, I was able to leave the UAE and arrived home to report the assault to the Metropolitan Police as the UK shuttered into lockdown. In the long and lonelyContinue reading “Rape Prosecutions Dropped By Half During UK Pandemic Due to Court Backlog”

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a strange effect on how people relate to their neighbours. Lockdown measures have confined previously mobile citizens to their immediate environments, greatly increasing the time spent in proximity to those sharing them. Yet social distancing measures make some many aspects of British ‘neighbouring’ newly fraught with anxiety: chats over theContinue reading “Neighbourliness: how to build post-pandemic infrastructure to support micro-community relations.”

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There is no doubt that Covid-19 has thrown up new digital solutions for the delivery of teaching services. My daughter is a primary school teacher in Melbourne, Australia and she has been teaching my Burmese born but now UK based 5 year old grandson online during lockdown. Many Government’s in poorer countries across the worldContinue reading “Exporting teaching services and more choices around school education”

Britain was ill-prepared to track and trace its citizens the during the Covid-19 crisis. A variety of schemes were announced with great fanfare, trailed in various localities and then quietly forgotten when they didn’t work. Ahead of a future pandemic or similar national emergency a preprepared system needs to be ready for immediate implementation. ThisContinue reading “A preprepared track and trace system that has use during normal times”

Above all else, COVID-19 has shown us the gaps in our current way of life. From poor logistics for mass vaccine distribution, to the erosion and subsequent closure of small enterprises. Within the first few months of the pandemic, 7% of SMEs shuttered for good in London, and over the course of 2020, 73% ofContinue reading “UK food systems need help”

A key opportunity of this pandemic is to build on the spirit of togetherness we have seen and enhance the renewed desire of people to support their communities through public service. We saw it when the NHS first asked for volunteers to support their local communities with over 750,000 people signing up in just fourContinue reading “Utilising the untapped potential of people across the country who want to make a difference”

Let’s start with optimism. The pandemic has catalysed transformation. For example, you can now visit a prisoner by video and virtually attend a job centre. We must commend the heroic teams who responded, often within the space of days. But we must not get complacent. Examples of how we respond to social distancing are fastContinue reading “A crisis of creativity in the public sector”