Forget culture wars: the Covid inquiry is a stark reminder of what government is really about | Zoe Williams | The Guardian
Neither Covid nor life after it, including the hundreds of thousands missing from the workforce, are comprehensible without looking squarely at what austerity has done to society. Even if the Conservatives hadn’t kept the NHS on a shoestring, even if we hadn’t had half the ICU capacity of Italy and France, the decisive factor would still have been this simple thing that we knew all along: the belt-tightening that Cameron sold as blitz spirit, andContinue…