Andrew Dickens Afternoons

Welcome to budget week and welcome to the immediate aftermath of the Covid pandemic. Is the pandemic over? No, far from it. Temporary labour shortages as the virus works its way through the population means everything will be difficult for some time yet. Nearly half our music station staff were off last week after one company super spreader event. Productivity was knocked for 6. Who needs the Government to lock us down when we do it to ourselves. Meanwhile, the post-pandemic hangover affects the whole world and it's having a political fall-out. In Australia, Scott Morrison looks in doubt as Labour blames him for a cost-of-living crisis. In America, Biden is losing ground because he's blamed for a cost-of-living crisis. Boris Johnson will be lucky to survive as Labour hammers him for a cost-of-living crisis. All the Governments that have steered the world through Covid are now being made to pay for it. They're being blamed for the profligate spending that kept businesses afloat. But at the time they were blame