Ministers saying ‘wait for the public inquiry’ when asked why covid death toll has been so high is infuriating, given they’ve commissioned no such inquiry. So a few of us had a go at a rough first draft https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/covid-19-the-unofficial-uk-inquiry-coronavirus-nhs

Obv there will be lots we missed or couldn’t cover (let’s just say an actual inquiry would have considerably more words & time, not to mention powers to requisition evidence/call witnesses). But it’s so galling that the big questions won’t get answers...

...until it’s too late to make use of them. Formal inquiries are disruptive, but there have to be ways of govt learning from mistakes & sharing what it learned publicly in a crisis as long running as I think this will be