There is a cluster of others about appointments and contracts – the most striking of the latter being the £250 million PPE one awarded to a jewellry designer who is based in Florida.Ī sign of the times is that our old friend the bloke in the kimono with the baseball bat and the dead fox is in court again or thereabouts, arguing that Harding’s appointment is in breach of (you guessed it) the Equality Act. The most prominent are the appointments of Dido Harding as head of the NHS Test and Trace programme and Kate Bingham as Chair of the UK Vaccines Taskforce. This tale may be a serviceable introduction to the mass of stories swirling around the media about alleged Ministerial and governmental cronyism (claimed openly) and corruption (suggested covertly). Incompetence, unresponsiveness, idleness – etc. This was disgraceful, we were told: Ministers and civil servants were asleep on the job. E-mails had been sent and phone calls made. He or she had offered help free to the Government.
When the Coronavirus pandemic first broke, last spring, our former author complained to the site. The person in question had something interesting to say on the matter, and also hoped to advise the Government about it. It became clear to us after a while that the author had a double agenda. They were perfectly good articles in their own right.
During the last few years, ConservativeHome published a series of pieces by an author about a subject.
