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IMHO he knows it’s already gone https://t.co/7WL9gozH8v
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530,086 booster vaccinations in United Kingdom exc Wales yesterday (448,975 the previous Friday)
England 483,361
Scotland 40,144
NI 6,581
The daily average is now above 400k for the first time.
https://twitter.com/HugoGye/status/1470034339949789194?s=20
Feck.
For all the hype surrounding levelling up, the absence of any emotional connection with, or serious plans for, the places the government says it wants to help is striking. Once again, the overwhelming impression is of contempt and condescension, and people being blithely offered something Johnson has no serious intention of delivering. Worse still, as proved by the national insurance hike, the end of the universal credit uplift and his regressive plans for funding social care, things that he actually has done will make lives in so-called “left behind” places even harder.
I recently read Sad Little Men, the writer Richard Beard’s eloquent book about private schools and the kind of leaders they produce. In his experience, contempt for the lower orders began with the idea that “everyone else was less special and often stupid”, and blurred into indifference: “We saw from car windows the petrol stations and primary schools and Bovis homes in which less privileged lives played themselves out, but the hopes and dreams of these people didn’t meaningfully exist for us, nor their disappointments and pain.” The story of a public enduring the worst effects of the pandemic while Downing Street partied on gives those words an awful potency: somewhere in that sentence, in fact, lies one explanation for both the mess this government is in, and the mire the rest of us have been dragged into
Hamilton needs to retain at least a 2-3 second cushion at the chequered flag.
Not even 1994 was like this.
Hamilton doesn't.
Scotland Daily Coronavirus (COVID-19) Report · Sunday 12th December.
4,002 new cases (people positive) reported, giving a total of 765,889.
No new deaths reported, giving a total of 9,719.
https://twitter.com/UKCovid19Stats/status/1470035217234673672?s=20
M' learned friends...
it was almost possible to stay awake for the whole of that final lap, mind. Why not make the last 4 GPs, say, limited to the top 5 so they are less likely to be traffic management exercises?
1239 additional confirmed cases of the #Omicron variant of #COVID19 have been reported across the UK.
The total number of confirmed COVID-19 Omicron cases in the UK is 3137. https://t.co/vQFep3RiVe
I blame the long peace we've noticed through. Tories with experience of WW2 could see the point of other people, and lefties could see the point of patriotism- think of the Callaghan/Healy generation, compared with who followed them. About our only link to those times is QE2; she did the right but hard thing during Covid in a way that would never have occurred to our political masters.
I don't want another war so that we can rediscover each other, but it has left a void that we need to fill. Maybe the increasingly OTT marking of poppytide is a mute recognition of that, but it's not enough
Will Merc appeal?
My late mum used to say - never wish someone died, it might happen and then how would you feel?
My only bet so far was my £100 at evens with @Sandpit on Raducanu. I've just bet £4 @ 50 on Hamilton in case he gets a sympathy vote.
So I'm now +96 on Raducanu, +100 on Hamilton, -104 on the field.
He didn't thank Michael Masi or the FIA in his victory speech.
Sensational race. Brazil 2008...