THE POSITIVE PROFESSOR

SOCIAL media’s voice of calm Karol Sikora has been signed up by the Daily Express. Readers can now enjoy his soothing advice in these troubled times that have won him hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter. If you need reassuring everything’s going to be all right read Professor Positivity.

SCRAPPING the travel traffic system is the right move in my view. It was brought in to simplify the process and has done the exact opposite.

It’s not just green, amber and red. There are different categories within those and one rule for the vaccinated, another for the unvaccinated. Who can make sense of it all? It all changes at a moment’s notice which can leave families stranded abroad at great cost and stress.

Are all of the red countries deservedly on the naughty list? Who knows. There is almost certainly politics at play as normal. All the while families are kept apart, holidays are cancelled and the aviation industry is in a terrible mess.

A new, simple system is needed. One which recognises the importance of travel and doesn’t punish countries for vacuous reasons.

Now that vaccine passports seem here to stay, our Government needs to hurry up and recognise the vaccine schemes from other countries. They have done this with the EU and others, but for many fully vaccinated people they are still cut off from family members in the UK despite having both doses of an approved vaccine. Surely two governments can get together and agree to recognise each other’s schemes? Perhaps I’m giving politicians too much credit!

In all of this I feel like inbound tourism is totally forgotten. Despite what some say, the UK is a fantastic place to come on holiday. We need to cut the Covid bureaucracy and reinvigorate our tourism industry!

Extensive testing feels unnecessary, especially considering how widespread the virus is at the moment. You’re more likely to catch it on the Tube on the way home from the airport rather than going on holiday.