The Long Shot: The Inside Story of the Race to Vaccinate Britain

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Bingham’s husband is Jesse Norman MP, then the financial secretary to the Treasury. Bingham has no difficulty demonstrating that this has nothing to do with anything, but that didn’t stop the Guardian’s jibes, its “chumocracy” tables and the rest. Italian Dinner Celebrating the Programme of Italian Literature and Culture SOLD OUT Exeter College: Hall 7:15pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event A managing partner at venture capital firm SV Health Investors, Bingham was hailed for her work in making sure that the UK was speedily supplied with ample doses of Covid vaccines in the middle of the pandemic. Her book, The Long Shot, is out next week with proceeds going to charity.Not only were we building the plane as we were flying it,” writes Kate Bingham, appointed by Boris Johnson in May 2020 to chair the UK Vaccine Task Force, “we were flying in the dark and simultaneously writing the instruction manual, and fielding endless petty questions from air traffic control asking about the strength of the orange juice we were serving to passengers.” From a small cottage, Bingham juggled vaccine suppliers, Whitehall, the media circus – and her daughter’s exams. Political manoeuvring, miscommunications and administrative meddling nearly jeopardised the project. But perseverance paid off.

Every literary festival stays in an author’s mind for slightly individual reasons. I shall remember the Oxford festival for: The Oxford Literary Festival has in my mind become the leading literary festival of the year. The organisation, the roster of speakers, the ambience and the sheer quality of it all is superb. May it now go from strength to strength each year stretching its ambition more and more. I believe it will. She stresses that the UK clearly has more manufacturing capacity than it did – the Government bought and repurposed a veterinary vaccine plant in Essex, for instance, while Moderna is setting up an mRNA vaccine manufacturing plant. Britain also invested in training, and expanded vaccine testing facilities at Porton Down. Tanya Goodin and Rory Cellan-Jones Switching off and Switching in: Living in the Digital Age Trinity College: Garden Room Levine Building 12:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event

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An incisive behind-the-scenes look at the challenges Bingham faced in her role… The authors combine a lucid explanation of the scientific breakthroughs needed to create the first Covid vaccine with an insider look at the politics that hampered the taskforce’s efforts. The result is a valuable addition to the literature documenting the crisis.’ But on occasion, something happens that reminds her of the seven-month stint in the trenches of the Government’s Covid response, the remarkable feat of pulling off the impossible – and her new position as a reluctant pandemic celebrity. Britain’s internationally celebrated vaccine development and production regime was set in motion, from something like a standing start, by a team that included a bomb disposal expert, an Indian rowing star, an Italian consultant, a former ambassador, a football pundit, and the redoubtable Ruth Todd, whose day job was to see that submarines were delivered on time. This is a book about the skills and experiences necessary to build extraordinary ventures under pressure. Although the science is sketched ably enough here and there, this is not a science book. Paterson Joseph Interviewed by Suzi Feay The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho Exeter College: Marquee 12:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event

Caroline Moorehead Interviewed by Alexandra Pringle Edda Mussolini: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe Exeter College: Marquee 10:00am Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event You may also opt to downgrade to Standard Digital, a robust journalistic offering that fulfils many user’s needs. Compare Standard and Premium Digital here. If you do nothing, you will be auto-enrolled in our premium digital monthly subscription plan and retain complete access for 65 € per month. Despite drawing up an initial terms sheet with AstraZeneca for a drug now used in at least 30 countries, the UK chose neither to buy nor to invest in facilities to manufacture antibody treatments. I knew if he [Sykes] didn’t think much about any aspect of our operation, then he’d say so – loudly. Conversely, a seal of approval from him would be as close as I could get to acquiring body armour,” she wrote. Sykes’s review approved of the taskforce’s work in July 2020.

The Oxford festival is the most elegant and atmospheric of literary festivals. It’s a pleasure to both attend and perform there. She also thinks the UK’s status outside the European Commission (EC) – who “did a bad job” – allowed the Government to be faster and “more nimble”. Peter Stothard Crassus: The First Tycoon Weston Lecture Theatre 2:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event I came away buzzing and reassured that we still have in this century a wide ranging community fascinated not just by famous authors (I’ve rarely seen so many concentrated in one place) but by challenging ideas and questions. It was one of the most pivotal moments in my entire time as VTF [Vaccine Taskforce] chair,” Bingham recalls in her upcoming tell-all, The Long Shot: The Inside Story of the Race to Vaccinate Britain.