Richard Dobbs

Why is the public sector so unproductive?

23 November 2023 1:08 am

The government has achieved its promise to halve inflation from last December’s level, borrowing has come in at little under…

The Covid battle Sajid Javid still has to face

30 June 2021 5:52 pm

Despite the humiliation of Matt Hancock’s exit, Sajid Javid, the new Secretary of State for Health, might in fact find…

Why I’m considering cancelling my second Covid jab

22 May 2021 9:00 am

Why I’m considering cancelling my second Covid jab

How should we tackle vaccine hesitancy?

3 April 2021 9:00 am

The need to tackle vaccine hesitancy

The need for speed: can we outpace Covid?

20 February 2021 9:00 am

Can we outpace Covid?

A race against time: can the vaccine outpace the virus?

9 January 2021 9:00 am

Can the vaccine outpace the virus?

Could ten million Covid tests a day get Britain back to normal?

14 November 2020 9:00 am

Britain’s best hope isn’t a vaccine – it’s millions of daily tests

Test and Trace was doomed right from the start

24 October 2020 9:00 am

NHS Test and Trace was doomed from the start

It’s time for Boris to channel Churchill

26 September 2020 9:00 am

How Boris can get Britain’s Covid fight back on track

Here's how the Covid nightmare could be over by Christmas

9 September 2020 5:00 pm

Matt Hancock has announced his ‘Moonshot’ project of achieving population-wide mass testing for Covid-19. He should be congratulated for this…

The case for mass testing

20 August 2020 1:02 am

This morning, Matt Hancock claimed on the Today programme that the government is now working as fast as it can…

Is our test-and-trace system ready to stop a second spike?

8 August 2020 9:00 am

Is our test-and-trace system ready?