As the death toll from Covid-19 has continued to rise, I have become increasingly despondent about the use of information by the government and of the reluctance of the media to challenge on behalf of the population on the receiving end of flawed decision-making. Sadly, none of this is new. We have become used to government agencies such as Ofsted presenting professional opinion as if it were immutable fact; we have endured the reduction of the most complex and far reaching policy issues into three-word slogans rather than demanding the nuanced debate they really deserve. Most recently, we have sat and watched daily briefings in which incomplete and inaccurate data are cynically sold to us to underpin failing policy – which has had disastrous consequences.
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