One “small upside” of the coronavirus pandemic will be the data gathered and we must use this to improve the way our public services are run, says Mark Littlewood, Director-General at the Institute of Economic Affairs.

Writing his fortnightly column for The Times, Mark says “only when systems are tested to the extent they are by the present emergency can you tell which are robust and which are deeply fragile” and there are few circumstances where different systems face the same challenge simultaneously.