When governments first started responding to the Covid 19 pandemic by locking down economies and using War metaphors, we suggested that it all had the air of the British Comedy series Dad’s Army.

The ‘Clean network to safeguard US Assets’ aka the new Firewall being proudly touted by Mike Pompeo and as discussed on the blog here last month is likely to have some important and largely unintended consequences.

Took an old favourite off the shelves…

In a previous post back in May, we highlighted how the UK response to Covid resembled nothing so much as an episode of Dads Army:

The Five Monkeys experiment is a classic thought experiment with implications for human behaviour.