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Boris John’s administration is to be praised for making an about-turn ‘People with knowledge should talk about it, not football managers.” Such was the refreshingly honest response of Jürgen Klopp when pressed for his views about coronavirus by journalists last week. “My opinion about corona is not important.” The Liverpool manager’s comments embody an important sentiment that seems to have emerged in this outbreak: a reappraisal of the importance of experts in the wake of their denigration by populist leaders around the world. This government is not a fan of experts. For months, it has repeatedly ignored warnings from scientists, trade experts and economists about the impact of a hard Brexit on the country’s economic wellbeing and security. It has implicitly declared war on the civil service: aides and advisers liberally brief against “the blob” and its perceived resistance to ripping up a supposedly pointless rulebook. But thankfully – perhaps with as much a view to protecting its own political fortunes as well as public health – ministers have temporarily put their hostility towards experts and civil servants aside. Last week, we criticised the government’s slow response to the crisis: holding back ministers from news programmes that had caused it offence; taking days to call a meeting of Cobra chaired by the PM. But as the government has moved from the “contain” to the “delay” phase of its response, there has been a marked improvement. What is unfolding in the US is exposing in real time the dangers of populism and its rejection of evidence and experts Continue reading…


The Observer view: coronavirus crisis shows how much we need experts | Observer editorial

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