Tag: Non-cohabiting couples

• Idiot Wind: A screeching U-turn on relationships under COVID-19 (Updated December 2020)

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  October 18, 2020

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  Government Covidiocy

  Regular readers find in me a relentless critic of this Government’s efforts to control Covid-19, because of its scant regard for the inviolability of human relationships. I do not find it acceptable to restrict non-cohabiting couples from pursuing their relationships, even in extremis, because that is a flagrant abuse of human rights. Back in June,…

  

• It’s an ill wind…

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  September 10, 2020

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  Government Covidiocy

  (Sorry, but this wasn’t the end, merely a brief period of respite from Government Covidiocy. For the next episode in this sorry saga, read: Idiot Wind: A screeching U-turn on relationships under COVID-19, published in October 2020 with an update in December 2020.) …that blows nobody any good. I hope this post will mark the…

  

• Support Bubbles and Extended Households: A Dog’s Breakfast?

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  August 15, 2020

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  Government Covidiocy

  For what is (hopefully) the final part of this campaign, read It’s an ill wind…, which described the English Government’s low-key statement, on 9 September 2020, that ‘established relationships’ would henceforth be exempted from social distancing. . Two months ago I condemned the UK’s failure to introduce household bubbles to reunite non-cohabiting couples. This post…