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Just as it is easy to be complacent about a country’s immunity to extremism (“If it didn’t happen before, it won’t happen now”), it is all too easy for any suggested change to the existing constitutional or political set up to be described as the first step towards whichever form of extremism most worries the commentator, especially if from a political opponent.
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That's the Premier League finished.
Uefa has an emergency meeting on Tuesday, when I expect they'll decide to delay Euro 2020 for a calendar year. The European club competitions will probably get guillotined at the same meeting, or failing that shortly thereafter. Domestic football is already suspended in many European leagues, and don't see ours limping on much past the weekend.
The most likely outcome of all this is that the 2019/20 season gets wiped and everything starts again from scratch in August or September. Fantastic news for Norwich City. For Liverpool, not so much.
https://twitter.com/MBrundleF1/status/1238231237258555393?s=20
Electoral commission recommending delay in London mayoral elections til the Autumn.
a) We’ve recently seen an example of the courts putting Gvt in its place and we should be gladdened by that; and
b) Even in the case of the Labour Party, it seems to be in the process of correcting its errors.
Basically, I think we have good checks and balances in this country. But you’re right that we should be cautious.
The varied responses to the pandemic constitute a series of experiments with the lives of large groups of human beings, and we're not going to know which experiments were the most successful until this is all over.
Our might be one of the failures, but we oughtn't automatically to assume so.
Turn it off and turn it on again. If it doesnt work, delete history on chrome, and restart it.
I am actually starting to wish Trump gets coronavirus. His unbelievable callousness towards other people's lives means he deserves it.
Clouds, silver linings and all that.
Trump, for the third time, reaffirms his support of unifying Ireland.
It was great fun until I got banned.
You have not noted that one of my biggest criticisms in the header is reserved for Labour and its supporters, of whom the Guardian is one. Not me.
We'll also get better at testing and isolation, so that future outbreaks should be identified more easily.
It's disruptive, but it's far from an existential threat.
Local elections in the middle of a pandemic are an unnecessary risk to public health, an unnecessary distraction to the local authorities themselves, and badly distracting and potentially replacing the leadership of those authorities mid-crisis is totally nuts. They're bound to be kicked into the long grass for the duration.
It looks like we have to re-learn these lessons every few generations.
But note that the response to (a) has been a manifesto promise to stop the courts doing so. That is a promise to remove or reduce an important check and balance.
On (b) I am not so sure. Labour have said all sorts of good things. Even Corbyn did so. Action has been lacking. There is a reason for that and I am not at all convinced that Labour has really inquired into why that is.
And, second, the fact that Labour’s immune system was so weak that the virus of anti-semitism took hold so easily is what is concerning. Again I am not sure that Labour has really understood why it has rotted and weakened from the inside. Until it does it is hard to make really effective changes.
It’s a change of culture which is needed not simply a better disciplinary system.
https://twitter.com/LorcanRK/status/1238219328031465476?s=20
Ohio health official estimates 100,000 people in state have coronavirus
Ohio Department of Health Director Amy Acton said at a press conference alongside Gov. Mike DeWine (R) that given that the virus is spreading in the community in Ohio, she estimates at least 1 percent of the population in the state has the virus.
"We know now, just the fact of community spread, says that at least 1 percent, at the very least, 1 percent of our population is carrying this virus in Ohio today," Acton said. "We have 11.7 million people. So the math is over 100,000. So that just gives you a sense of how this virus spreads and is spreading quickly."
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/487329-ohio-health-official-estimates-100000-people-in-state-have-coronavirus
“In light of Arsenal’s announcement tonight confirming that their first-team coach Mikel Arteta has tested positive for COVID-19, the Premier League will convene an emergency club meeting tomorrow morning regarding future fixtures.”
And I thought TSE was just having a bit of fun when he mooted the possibility that Liverpool might be robbed of their title by covid-19.
Covid - 19
Liverpool - 18
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8104723/Trump-caught-hot-mic-complaining-ink-stain-shirt-coronavirus-address.html
I have got to say your medical voice-of-reason input has been a massive asset to this site and much appreciated by me, and I am sure many other posters.
Do you feel lucky?
I can only imagine they are working on the theory that actually in Northern Italy it was widespread way before that and little testing so didn't pick it up, so the true numbers aren't comparable.
If Boris thinks people will thank him for doing nothing while they watch their granny dying he'd better think again and get real! Whatever Tory party is left after this will have him out quicker than he can say Brexit!
I hope I’m right.
I am a phone man, old fashioned I know, but I find calling one key person is quicker, more pleasant and leads to better things than videoconferencing.