Episode 62
Is Covid cover for corruption?
The British government is accused of feathering the nests of its friends with coronavirus contracts. Has it?
The Slow Newscast · Alice Sandelson
December 10, 202029m 7s
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Show Notes
The British government has spent billions tackling the coronavirus, and some of it has gone to friends and family of people in high places. Contracts for safety equipment or for testing for Covid have been handed out without the usual safeguards on public spending, and accusations of corruption and cronyism have flown around. Is that what's happening, or is the explanation more mundane? Would the government's actions be better seen as normal in the wildly abnormal situation of a pandemic? And have they perhaps been aided and abetted by garden variety incompetence?
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