I'm hosting a virtual quiz night on Saturday. Both Americans and Brits will be participating.
It would be great if everyone shared their favorite quiz question.
Thanks!
Not recognising this question literally cost me and my pub team €500 in the Jackpot round. The names sparked something in my memory and I was heading in the right direction, but it was a bang the head against tha wall moment when I heard the answer.
"Where do you find Piscine Molitor Patel and Richard Parker?"
Like children in the backseat of the car moaning “are we nearly there yet?”, they don’t have constructive suggestions but they don’t half make a racket.
I'm hosting a virtual quiz night on Saturday. Both Americans and Brits will be participating.
It would be great if everyone shared their favorite quiz question.
Thanks!
What happened on September the 10th 1752?
That one works just as well in the US as here.
Brilliant
But will they have 11 days to get the answer?
Edit - if you want to have a round where everybody gets a point, you could ask them which day the Russian Revolution happened, out of (a) 23rd February (b) 8th March and (c) International Women’s Day. Because, of course, all three of those are correct, so whichever answer they give they get a point.
Sean Connery, Roger Moore and Daniel Craig each get at least one movie in the top five grossing James Bond movies (adjusted for inflation). One point for getting one for each actor, so a maximum of three.
You see, I’d have a problem with a question like that because I’d probably disagree with the true answer and thus the paying public.
OK... don't Google... and guess three movies. I got two of three, getting Connery and Craig right, but Moore wrong.
Thunderball, Moonraker and Skyfall would be my guesses.
All of which were the worst films of their respective stars (OK, so Diamonds are Forever was possibly worse than Thunderball).
Actually, I might slightly disagree with Moonraker.
Everyone remembers the sight gags and the cheesy lasers but the first hour or so is Bond doing a decent amount of investigative and detective work and it has some great location shots in Rio and Venice.
Also, I quite like Barry’s score and there are moments of genuine suspense, such as when the lab technicians die due to the orchid, Corrine is chased to her death by dogs and Bond shotguns the sniper.
Beatles questions often go down well. Eg. What was the last Beatles album recorded? and who is Richard Starkey? (don't say that the second one is a Beatles question!)
Of all the Beatles, which one had the best selling solo album?
And which was the last former Beatle to top the the US singles charts?
My post Beatles trivia is not so good, but I suspect from your asking the question that they are slightly unexpected. Without googling them I guess best selling album: George (had a couple of very big albums in the 70s) Last No 1: Ringo (probably with other artists in a charity single)
Sean Connery, Roger Moore and Daniel Craig each get at least one movie in the top five grossing James Bond movies (adjusted for inflation). One point for getting one for each actor, so a maximum of three.
You see, I’d have a problem with a question like that because I’d probably disagree with the true answer and thus the paying public.
OK... don't Google... and guess three movies. I got two of three, getting Connery and Craig right, but Moore wrong.
Thunderball, Moonraker and Skyfall would be my guesses.
All of which were the worst films of their respective stars (OK, so Diamonds are Forever was possibly worse than Thunderball).
Actually, I might slightly disagree with Moonraker.
Everyone remembers the sight gags and the cheesy lasers but the first hour or so is Bond doing a decent amount of investigative and detective work and it has some great location shots in Rio and Venice.
Also, I quite like Barry’s score and there are moments of genuine suspense, such as when the lab technicians die due to the orchid, Corrine is chased to her death by dogs and Bond shotguns the sniper.
I find it quite fun.
And also chasing down the modules with the space shuttle at the end for destruction. That is intense, particularly with the music.
Sean Connery, Roger Moore and Daniel Craig each get at least one movie in the top five grossing James Bond movies (adjusted for inflation). One point for getting one for each actor, so a maximum of three.
You see, I’d have a problem with a question like that because I’d probably disagree with the true answer and thus the paying public.
OK... don't Google... and guess three movies. I got two of three, getting Connery and Craig right, but Moore wrong.
Thunderball, Moonraker and Skyfall would be my guesses.
All of which were the worst films of their respective stars (OK, so Diamonds are Forever was possibly worse than Thunderball).
Actually, I might slightly disagree with Moonraker.
Everyone remembers the sight gags and the cheesy lasers but the first hour or so is Bond doing a decent amount of investigative and detective work and it has some great location shots in Rio and Venice.
Also, I quite like Barry’s score and there are moments of genuine suspense, such as when the lab technicians die due to the orchid, Corrine is chased to her death by dogs and Bond shotguns the sniper.
I find it quite fun.
The first half of Moonraker is actually very good. Sadly...
Beatles questions often go down well. Eg. What was the last Beatles album recorded? and who is Richard Starkey? (don't say that the second one is a Beatles question!)
Of all the Beatles, which one had the best selling solo album?
And which was the last former Beatle to top the the US singles charts?
My post Beatles trivia is not so good, but I suspect from your asking the question that they are slightly unexpected. Without googling them I guess best selling album: George (had a couple of very big albums in the 70s) Last No 1: Ringo (probably with other artists in a charity single)
All Things Must Pass was - by a country mile - the best selling album by a former Beatle.
Diamonds Are Forever and Die Another Day were diabolical. The Man with the Golden Gun isn’t far behind - could have been great (and I love the location shots) but ruined by so many things.
Diamonds Are Forever and Die Another Day were diabolical. The Man with the Golden Gun isn’t far behind - could have been great (and I love the location shots) but ruined by so many things.
I think the lockdown should start to be lifted by the end of the month.
I don't think it's the worst of all worlds. The NHS hasn't hit capacity, and the virus hasn't gone away, so we need to safely reinstate as much economic activity as we can within its bounds.
Exactly right. The number of new infections will be on a downward path, and we can SLOWLY begin to remove the most severe restrictions.
I can see social distancing remaining for some time.
But, I don't see why that can't permit openings of schools and nurseries (definitely), pubs, restuarants and cinemas (with suitable separation and timing/booked seatings, if necessary) plus parents, grandparents and their children being able to see one another.
Nightclubs, crowded bars, mass parties, and large race meets may still need to be postponed (for now) unless and until they can be done safely.
(Oh, and strip the bloody police of their extra powers asap.)
Those police powers are going nowhere soon. The time they will most be needed is to prevent idiots taking stupid risks when people are venturing out and about again. They will remain high profile, walking around the towns, cruising around in cars, giving people, er, "reassurance".... In case anybody might cough.
The police have behaved appallingly this crisis and have lost my confidence. They aren’t able to discern between genuine “idiots” and just picking on families and couples unnecessarily because they can. They don’t understand either the law or the risk.
I don’t want them having the powers one second longer than necessary, and then I want all increases in their numbers cancelled.
The lead hits an important issue, which is to challenge the assumption that the economy is like a tap that simply needs to be turned on or off. Trump and many commentators assume normality will return the minute we are allowed freely out of the house.
In the short term, I still see an inflationary spike, as people are released eager to do or buy stuff, and the wall of saved money plus government money meets shortages in supply, and businesses that need to recover lost profit. We're already seeing this in the industry worst affected, where cruise prices for 2021 bookings are rising.
However in the medium term, there are good reasons for thinking that we won't see a quick return to normal. Off the top of my head:
- we will be in a risk averse climate where many, particularly the more vulnerable, will be cautious about their lifestyle regardless of an official release; - consumers missed by the rescue schemes, or who have taken loans or mortgage holidays, will need to repair their own finances; - we are likely to live in fear of a return of the virus in winter 2020 and return of lockdown possibly sooner; - the crisis will have ruined some businesses permanently, and it will take time for those assets to be re-used by new entrepreneurs; - this month's experience may change some people's attitudes, reducing (possibly permanently) demand for leisure travel, business travel, and the thirst for conspicuous consumption. There will be people leaving the labour market, attracted by a quieter life; - the level of new startups will surely fall, after such a vivid demonstration of the risks of starting your own business. Running your own café or restaurant is a bad dream right now. - the government will have to repair the national balance sheet, which is going to mean taking money out of the economy.
Beatles questions often go down well. Eg. What was the last Beatles album recorded? and who is Richard Starkey? (don't say that the second one is a Beatles question!)
Of all the Beatles, which one had the best selling solo album?
And which was the last former Beatle to top the the US singles charts?
My post Beatles trivia is not so good, but I suspect from your asking the question that they are slightly unexpected. Without googling them I guess best selling album: George (had a couple of very big albums in the 70s) Last No 1: Ringo (probably with other artists in a charity single)
All Things Must Pass was - by a country mile - the best selling album by a former Beatle.
Thanks, I was thinking of that one but couldn't recall my name and wanted to be true to my comment about not googling. The other one I was thinking of was Concert for Bangladesh.
The lead hits an important issue, which is to challenge the assumption that the economy is like a tap that simply needs to be turned on or off. Trump and many commentators assume normality will return the minute we are allowed freely out of the house.
In the short term, I still see an inflationary spike, as people are released eager to do or buy stuff, and the wall of saved money plus government money meets shortages in supply, and businesses that need to recover lost profit. We're already seeing this in the industry worst affected, where cruise prices for 2021 bookings are rising.
However in the medium term, there are good reasons for thinking that we won't see a quick return to normal. Off the top of my head:
- we will be in a risk averse climate where many, particularly the more vulnerable, will be cautious about their lifestyle regardless of an official release; - consumers missed by the rescue schemes, or who have taken loans or mortgage holidays, will need to repair their own finances; - we are likely to live in fear of a return of the virus in winter 2020 and return of lockdown possibly sooner; - the crisis will have ruined some businesses permanently, and it will take time for those assets to be re-used by new entrepreneurs; - this month's experience may change some people's attitudes, reducing (possibly permanently) demand for leisure travel, business travel, and the thirst for conspicuous consumption. There will be people leaving the labour market, attracted by a quieter life; - the level of new startups will surely fall, after such a vivid demonstration of the risks of starting your own business. Running your own café or restaurant is a bad dream right now. - the government will have to repair the national balance sheet, which is going to mean taking money out of the economy.
I think the lockdown should start to be lifted by the end of the month.
I don't think it's the worst of all worlds. The NHS hasn't hit capacity, and the virus hasn't gone away, so we need to safely reinstate as much economic activity as we can within its bounds.
Exactly right. The number of new infections will be on a downward path, and we can SLOWLY begin to remove the most severe restrictions.
I can see social distancing remaining for some time.
But, I don't see why that can't permit openings of schools and nurseries (definitely), pubs, restuarants and cinemas (with suitable separation and timing/booked seatings, if necessary) plus parents, grandparents and their children being able to see one another.
Nightclubs, crowded bars, mass parties, and large race meets may still need to be postponed (for now) unless and until they can be done safely.
(Oh, and strip the bloody police of their extra powers asap.)
Those police powers are going nowhere soon. The time they will most be needed is to prevent idiots taking stupid risks when people are venturing out and about again. They will remain high profile, walking around the towns, cruising around in cars, giving people, er, "reassurance".... In case anybody might cough.
The police have behaved appallingly this crisis and have lost my confidence. They aren’t able to discern between genuine “idiots” and just picking on families and couples unnecessarily because they can. They don’t understand either the law or the risk.
I don’t want them having the powers one second longer than necessary, and then I want all increases in their numbers cancelled.
There's absolutely no chance of this happening.
Well, that certainly isn’t true.
In a climate of public spending retrenchment (which will be necessary) a reverse in police numbers is certainly a possibility- particularly if they’ve trashed their reputation and trust.
On what scientific or comparative statistical basis the UK doing badly? That above chart? The chart that takes into account no context or size of country, population differences and so on? For gods sake.
In 6 months time if the death toll here is comparatively high per head of population vs other countries you can say that but we are early into a multi month situation with a virus we understand little about so far despite all the great work done by scientists. As it stands the UK's situation is not exceptionally bad, nor good. We have no absolute methodology of putting this to ground, its purely management for demand on the public health system. Lots of people have had it, lots will get it in the months to come
People are dying, what a surprise, did you miss the kind of numbers being bandied about at the start? People will die for months to come. Only then can we judge whether we are doing 'badly'.
John Burn Murdoch explains his rationale in the video below. There's no "right answer" but there's a reason why this chart gets widely quoted. It's all about trends. The UK will probably end up with a similar death toll to Italy in this phase of epidemic. As Italy and the UK have similar populations, deaths per million will also be similar. Several other countries in Europe will have better initial outcomes. These will at least be in part be sure to those governments taking better decisions and executing better on them.
I'm hosting a virtual quiz night on Saturday. Both Americans and Brits will be participating.
It would be great if everyone shared their favorite quiz question.
Thanks!
What happened on September the 10th 1752?
That one works just as well in the US as here.
I set this question in a different way in a pub quiz:
What ist the relevance of the following years (in each given city)? 1582 in Rome 1582 and 1806 in Paris 1700 in Berlin 1752 in London 1873 in Kyoto 1918 in Moscow
Paris is particularly odd. I chose to specify cities because countries have changed since 1582.
Diamonds Are Forever and Die Another Day were diabolical. The Man with the Golden Gun isn’t far behind - could have been great (and I love the location shots) but ruined by so many things.
A View to A Kill is saved by Christopher Walken.
There is, potentially, a good plot hiding away in Die Another Day.
"The pre credits are good and the scenes in Hong Kong decent. And where does that leave us?
UK think he cracked and gave away state secrets, you've got Micheal Madsen as a US agent who thinks Bond cracked, a Korean general who lost his son and Bond trying to find who set him up in Korea (you need to make it slightly clearer in that scene that he got set up by *someone*). And, Bond isn't 100 % sure if he did give away secrets under pressure.
Rewrite Toby Stephens character as UK trying to keep track of what Bond is actually doing, keeping a rivalry between them (friendly turning to deadly - he's there to take Bond out if UK fears turn out to be correct). Keep Ros Pike as the actual traitor - maybe she met the Korean at University or on a fencing tournament or something. The General wants to get revenge on UK/Bond so there's your over-arching plot.
And Madsen? Keep his role ambivalent. He has no friends, only interests. Halle Berry might be the equivalent of Toby Stephens character in this for the US - they're not sure what Madsen is doing either. Or just cut her altogether.
No DNA malarky, no ice castles, no invisible cars. Just a grief stricken old man trying to avenge his son, Bond trying to work out if he is the liability and three or four characters that you just don't know if you trust or not.
If you can't write that into a decent film, then you're useless, frankly."
The lead hits an important issue, which is to challenge the assumption that the economy is like a tap that simply needs to be turned on or off. Trump and many commentators assume normality will return the minute we are allowed freely out of the house.
In the short term, I still see an inflationary spike, as people are released eager to do or buy stuff, and the wall of saved money plus government money meets shortages in supply, and businesses that need to recover lost profit. We're already seeing this in the industry worst affected, where cruise prices for 2021 bookings are rising.
However in the medium term, there are good reasons for thinking that we won't see a quick return to normal. Off the top of my head:
- we will be in a risk averse climate where many, particularly the more vulnerable, will be cautious about their lifestyle regardless of an official release; - consumers missed by the rescue schemes, or who have taken loans or mortgage holidays, will need to repair their own finances; - we are likely to live in fear of a return of the virus in winter 2020 and return of lockdown possibly sooner; - the crisis will have ruined some businesses permanently, and it will take time for those assets to be re-used by new entrepreneurs; - this month's experience may change some people's attitudes, reducing (possibly permanently) demand for leisure travel, business travel, and the thirst for conspicuous consumption. There will be people leaving the labour market, attracted by a quieter life; - the level of new startups will surely fall, after such a vivid demonstration of the risks of starting your own business. Running your own café or restaurant is a bad dream right now. - the government will have to repair the national balance sheet, which is going to mean taking money out of the economy.
Yes, I could see a 6-7% contraction overall year on year once “over”.
Diamonds Are Forever and Die Another Day were diabolical. The Man with the Golden Gun isn’t far behind - could have been great (and I love the location shots) but ruined by so many things.
A View to A Kill is saved by Christopher Walken.
There is, potentially, a good plot hiding away in Die Another Day.
"The pre credits are good and the scenes in Hong Kong decent. And where does that leave us?
UK think he cracked and gave away state secrets, you've got Micheal Madsen as a US agent who thinks Bond cracked, a Korean general who lost his son and Bond trying to find who set him up in Korea (you need to make it slightly clearer in that scene that he got set up by *someone*). And, Bond isn't 100 % sure if he did give away secrets under pressure.
Rewrite Toby Stephens character as UK trying to keep track of what Bond is actually doing, keeping a rivalry between them (friendly turning to deadly - he's there to take Bond out if UK fears turn out to be correct). Keep Ros Pike as the actual traitor - maybe she met the Korean at University or on a fencing tournament or something. The General wants to get revenge on UK/Bond so there's your over-arching plot.
And Madsen? Keep his role ambivalent. He has no friends, only interests. Halle Berry might be the equivalent of Toby Stephens character in this for the US - they're not sure what Madsen is doing either. Or just cut her altogether.
No DNA malarky, no ice castles, no invisible cars. Just a grief stricken old man trying to avenge his son, Bond trying to work out if he is the liability and three or four characters that you just don't know if you trust or not.
If you can't write that into a decent film, then you're useless, frankly."
Diamonds Are Forever and Die Another Day were diabolical. The Man with the Golden Gun isn’t far behind - could have been great (and I love the location shots) but ruined by so many things.
A View to A Kill is saved by Christopher Walken.
There is, potentially, a good plot hiding away in Die Another Day.
"The pre credits are good and the scenes in Hong Kong decent. And where does that leave us?
UK think he cracked and gave away state secrets, you've got Micheal Madsen as a US agent who thinks Bond cracked, a Korean general who lost his son and Bond trying to find who set him up in Korea (you need to make it slightly clearer in that scene that he got set up by *someone*). And, Bond isn't 100 % sure if he did give away secrets under pressure.
Rewrite Toby Stephens character as UK trying to keep track of what Bond is actually doing, keeping a rivalry between them (friendly turning to deadly - he's there to take Bond out if UK fears turn out to be correct). Keep Ros Pike as the actual traitor - maybe she met the Korean at University or on a fencing tournament or something. The General wants to get revenge on UK/Bond so there's your over-arching plot.
And Madsen? Keep his role ambivalent. He has no friends, only interests. Halle Berry might be the equivalent of Toby Stephens character in this for the US - they're not sure what Madsen is doing either. Or just cut her altogether.
No DNA malarky, no ice castles, no invisible cars. Just a grief stricken old man trying to avenge his son, Bond trying to work out if he is the liability and three or four characters that you just don't know if you trust or not.
If you can't write that into a decent film, then you're useless, frankly."
My wife loves Die Another Day.
I think its also Brosnan's favourite - his commentary of the film is a delight.
Diamonds Are Forever and Die Another Day were diabolical. The Man with the Golden Gun isn’t far behind - could have been great (and I love the location shots) but ruined by so many things.
A View to A Kill is saved by Christopher Walken.
There is, potentially, a good plot hiding away in Die Another Day.
"The pre credits are good and the scenes in Hong Kong decent. And where does that leave us?
UK think he cracked and gave away state secrets, you've got Micheal Madsen as a US agent who thinks Bond cracked, a Korean general who lost his son and Bond trying to find who set him up in Korea (you need to make it slightly clearer in that scene that he got set up by *someone*). And, Bond isn't 100 % sure if he did give away secrets under pressure.
Rewrite Toby Stephens character as UK trying to keep track of what Bond is actually doing, keeping a rivalry between them (friendly turning to deadly - he's there to take Bond out if UK fears turn out to be correct). Keep Ros Pike as the actual traitor - maybe she met the Korean at University or on a fencing tournament or something. The General wants to get revenge on UK/Bond so there's your over-arching plot.
And Madsen? Keep his role ambivalent. He has no friends, only interests. Halle Berry might be the equivalent of Toby Stephens character in this for the US - they're not sure what Madsen is doing either. Or just cut her altogether.
No DNA malarky, no ice castles, no invisible cars. Just a grief stricken old man trying to avenge his son, Bond trying to work out if he is the liability and three or four characters that you just don't know if you trust or not.
If you can't write that into a decent film, then you're useless, frankly."
My wife loves Die Another Day.
If you like the Roger Moore cheesefest Bonds, Die Another Day seems like a re-write of Moonraker, I suppose.
I think the lockdown should start to be lifted by the end of the month.
I don't think it's the worst of all worlds. The NHS hasn't hit capacity, and the virus hasn't gone away, so we need to safely reinstate as much economic activity as we can within its bounds.
Exactly right. The number of new infections will be on a downward path, and we can SLOWLY begin to remove the most severe restrictions.
I can see social distancing remaining for some time.
But, I don't see why that can't permit openings of schools and nurseries (definitely), pubs, restuarants and cinemas (with suitable separation and timing/booked seatings, if necessary) plus parents, grandparents and their children being able to see one another.
Nightclubs, crowded bars, mass parties, and large race meets may still need to be postponed (for now) unless and until they can be done safely.
(Oh, and strip the bloody police of their extra powers asap.)
Those police powers are going nowhere soon. The time they will most be needed is to prevent idiots taking stupid risks when people are venturing out and about again. They will remain high profile, walking around the towns, cruising around in cars, giving people, er, "reassurance".... In case anybody might cough.
The police have behaved appallingly this crisis and have lost my confidence. They aren’t able to discern between genuine “idiots” and just picking on families and couples unnecessarily because they can. They don’t understand either the law or the risk.
I don’t want them having the powers one second longer than necessary, and then I want all increases in their numbers cancelled.
There's absolutely no chance of this happening.
Well, that certainly isn’t true.
In a climate of public spending retrenchment (which will be necessary) a reverse in police numbers is certainly a possibility- particularly if they’ve trashed their reputation and trust.
Most Police Officers are good people, there's bound to be a few idiots within any organisation and within the Police they tend to get the attention of the public - especially in the age of smartphones and the internet.
We don't necessarily need more of fewer Officers, we need to weed out idiots.
I think the lockdown should start to be lifted by the end of the month.
I don't think it's the worst of all worlds. The NHS hasn't hit capacity, and the virus hasn't gone away, so we need to safely reinstate as much economic activity as we can within its bounds.
Exactly right. The number of new infections will be on a downward path, and we can SLOWLY begin to remove the most severe restrictions.
I can see social distancing remaining for some time.
But, I don't see why that can't permit openings of schools and nurseries (definitely), pubs, restuarants and cinemas (with suitable separation and timing/booked seatings, if necessary) plus parents, grandparents and their children being able to see one another.
Nightclubs, crowded bars, mass parties, and large race meets may still need to be postponed (for now) unless and until they can be done safely.
(Oh, and strip the bloody police of their extra powers asap.)
Those police powers are going nowhere soon. The time they will most be needed is to prevent idiots taking stupid risks when people are venturing out and about again. They will remain high profile, walking around the towns, cruising around in cars, giving people, er, "reassurance".... In case anybody might cough.
The police have behaved appallingly this crisis and have lost my confidence. They aren’t able to discern between genuine “idiots” and just picking on families and couples unnecessarily because they can. They don’t understand either the law or the risk.
I don’t want them having the powers one second longer than necessary, and then I want all increases in their numbers cancelled.
Then you have reached the stage that many have reached long ago - we don't hate the police. We are just extremely unimpressed by the inability to use judgement. The reaction to bad incidents - childish coverups, passive aggressive reactions to criticism by the leadership - doesn't help.
I think the lockdown should start to be lifted by the end of the month.
I don't think it's the worst of all worlds. The NHS hasn't hit capacity, and the virus hasn't gone away, so we need to safely reinstate as much economic activity as we can within its bounds.
Exactly right. The number of new infections will be on a downward path, and we can SLOWLY begin to remove the most severe restrictions.
I can see social distancing remaining for some time.
But, I don't see why that can't permit openings of schools and nurseries (definitely), pubs, restuarants and cinemas (with suitable separation and timing/booked seatings, if necessary) plus parents, grandparents and their children being able to see one another.
Nightclubs, crowded bars, mass parties, and large race meets may still need to be postponed (for now) unless and until they can be done safely.
(Oh, and strip the bloody police of their extra powers asap.)
Those police powers are going nowhere soon. The time they will most be needed is to prevent idiots taking stupid risks when people are venturing out and about again. They will remain high profile, walking around the towns, cruising around in cars, giving people, er, "reassurance".... In case anybody might cough.
The police have behaved appallingly this crisis and have lost my confidence. They aren’t able to discern between genuine “idiots” and just picking on families and couples unnecessarily because they can. They don’t understand either the law or the risk.
I don’t want them having the powers one second longer than necessary, and then I want all increases in their numbers cancelled.
There's absolutely no chance of this happening.
Well, that certainly isn’t true.
In a climate of public spending retrenchment (which will be necessary) a reverse in police numbers is certainly a possibility- particularly if they’ve trashed their reputation and trust.
Most Police Officers are good people, there's bound to be a few idiots within any organisation and within the Police they tend to get the attention of the public - especially in the age of smartphones and the internet.
We don't necessarily need more of fewer Officers, we need to weed out idiots.
Yes, stop and question shouldn't apply to white middle class people. That wasn't the idea at all!
I think the lockdown should start to be lifted by the end of the month.
I don't think it's the worst of all worlds. The NHS hasn't hit capacity, and the virus hasn't gone away, so we need to safely reinstate as much economic activity as we can within its bounds.
Exactly right. The number of new infections will be on a downward path, and we can SLOWLY begin to remove the most severe restrictions.
I can see social distancing remaining for some time.
But, I don't see why that can't permit openings of schools and nurseries (definitely), pubs, restuarants and cinemas (with suitable separation and timing/booked seatings, if necessary) plus parents, grandparents and their children being able to see one another.
Nightclubs, crowded bars, mass parties, and large race meets may still need to be postponed (for now) unless and until they can be done safely.
(Oh, and strip the bloody police of their extra powers asap.)
Those police powers are going nowhere soon. The time they will most be needed is to prevent idiots taking stupid risks when people are venturing out and about again. They will remain high profile, walking around the towns, cruising around in cars, giving people, er, "reassurance".... In case anybody might cough.
The police have behaved appallingly this crisis and have lost my confidence. They aren’t able to discern between genuine “idiots” and just picking on families and couples unnecessarily because they can. They don’t understand either the law or the risk.
I don’t want them having the powers one second longer than necessary, and then I want all increases in their numbers cancelled.
There's absolutely no chance of this happening.
Well, that certainly isn’t true.
In a climate of public spending retrenchment (which will be necessary) a reverse in police numbers is certainly a possibility- particularly if they’ve trashed their reputation and trust.
Most Police Officers are good people, there's bound to be a few idiots within any organisation and within the Police they tend to get the attention of the public - especially in the age of smartphones and the internet.
We don't necessarily need more of fewer Officers, we need to weed out idiots.
Yes, stop and question shouldn't apply to white middle class people. That wasn't the idea at all!
The message when we do come out of lockdown has to remain: "This thing is still out there - and this thing can still kill you." Nobody with ANY symptoms should leave the house. Everybody that leaves the house needs to wear a mask. I don't know whether we will have enough masks for the end of April? Those who can work from home should continue to do so. Those who can't will worry about using public transport. Everyone with a mask needs to be the norm for travellers to feel less ill at ease. Plenty won't have a job to go back to, depsite the best efforts of government. That will obviously not look normal.
I'm not sure how different any of the first stages of any return to "normal" will look. Some shops will re-open - but will people go there? Pubs, cinemas, clubs, theatres, concert halls - they will remain closed. Restaurants with well-spaced tables? Maybe. You can resume seeing friends again - but will you? "This thing is still out there - and this thing can still kill you." How badly do you want to catch up on their gossip of how their life under lockdown was, er, just the same as yours? To hear how they probably don't have a job next month. What an uplifting trip out that will be....
But schools can re-open. That will be a change. A return to normal. Building sites can get back to building offices no-one needs, homes no-one can afford. We can - maybe - go out in our cars without a police drone tailing us. We can - maybe - take a drive in a National Park. But it will still feel like a life devoid of fun.
Yes please. Social distancing will have to continue for a long time. We can get used to having to space out in queues - we're British. It'll be phased of course. That's fine - so lets plan it. We will have some droogs who ignore it, and they can be dealt with. But we need something to work towards.
I think the lockdown should start to be lifted by the end of the month.
I don't think it's the worst of all worlds. The NHS hasn't hit capacity, and the virus hasn't gone away, so we need to safely reinstate as much economic activity as we can within its bounds.
Exactly right. The number of new infections will be on a downward path, and we can SLOWLY begin to remove the most severe restrictions.
I can see social distancing remaining for some time.
But, I don't see why that can't permit openings of schools and nurseries (definitely), pubs, restuarants and cinemas (with suitable separation and timing/booked seatings, if necessary) plus parents, grandparents and their children being able to see one another.
Nightclubs, crowded bars, mass parties, and large race meets may still need to be postponed (for now) unless and until they can be done safely.
(Oh, and strip the bloody police of their extra powers asap.)
Those police powers are going nowhere soon. The time they will most be needed is to prevent idiots taking stupid risks when people are venturing out and about again. They will remain high profile, walking around the towns, cruising around in cars, giving people, er, "reassurance".... In case anybody might cough.
The police have behaved appallingly this crisis and have lost my confidence. They aren’t able to discern between genuine “idiots” and just picking on families and couples unnecessarily because they can. They don’t understand either the law or the risk.
I don’t want them having the powers one second longer than necessary, and then I want all increases in their numbers cancelled.
There's absolutely no chance of this happening.
Well, that certainly isn’t true.
In a climate of public spending retrenchment (which will be necessary) a reverse in police numbers is certainly a possibility- particularly if they’ve trashed their reputation and trust.
Most Police Officers are good people, there's bound to be a few idiots within any organisation and within the Police they tend to get the attention of the public - especially in the age of smartphones and the internet.
We don't necessarily need more of fewer Officers, we need to weed out idiots.
Yes, stop and question shouldn't apply to white middle class people. That wasn't the idea at all!
I think you are mistaking criticism of the police as praise for Constable Savage.
Mind you, when I lived near Tower Hill, the police at the Tube station used to conduct searches for weapons, on occasion.
They seemed to be race/class "norming" - one group stopped gentlemen of the clothing, disposition etc to be gang members. They were all tense and waiting for something to happen.
Another group, on the other side of the entrance was stopping people in suits for a rather cursory search and chat.
Interesting and perceptive thread header Alastair, thanks.
One question on my mind regarding the inevitable eventual financial solution - printing money. If the UK, US, Japan and Eurozone all took the same approach what, if any, real 'debauching of currency' would there be?
Diamonds Are Forever and Die Another Day were diabolical. The Man with the Golden Gun isn’t far behind - could have been great (and I love the location shots) but ruined by so many things.
A View to A Kill is saved by Christopher Walken.
There is, potentially, a good plot hiding away in Die Another Day.
"The pre credits are good and the scenes in Hong Kong decent. And where does that leave us?
UK think he cracked and gave away state secrets, you've got Micheal Madsen as a US agent who thinks Bond cracked, a Korean general who lost his son and Bond trying to find who set him up in Korea (you need to make it slightly clearer in that scene that he got set up by *someone*). And, Bond isn't 100 % sure if he did give away secrets under pressure.
Rewrite Toby Stephens character as UK trying to keep track of what Bond is actually doing, keeping a rivalry between them (friendly turning to deadly - he's there to take Bond out if UK fears turn out to be correct). Keep Ros Pike as the actual traitor - maybe she met the Korean at University or on a fencing tournament or something. The General wants to get revenge on UK/Bond so there's your over-arching plot.
And Madsen? Keep his role ambivalent. He has no friends, only interests. Halle Berry might be the equivalent of Toby Stephens character in this for the US - they're not sure what Madsen is doing either. Or just cut her altogether.
No DNA malarky, no ice castles, no invisible cars. Just a grief stricken old man trying to avenge his son, Bond trying to work out if he is the liability and three or four characters that you just don't know if you trust or not.
If you can't write that into a decent film, then you're useless, frankly."
Diamonds Are Forever and Die Another Day were diabolical. The Man with the Golden Gun isn’t far behind - could have been great (and I love the location shots) but ruined by so many things.
A View to A Kill is saved by Christopher Walken.
There is, potentially, a good plot hiding away in Die Another Day.
"The pre credits are good and the scenes in Hong Kong decent. And where does that leave us?
UK think he cracked and gave away state secrets, you've got Micheal Madsen as a US agent who thinks Bond cracked, a Korean general who lost his son and Bond trying to find who set him up in Korea (you need to make it slightly clearer in that scene that he got set up by *someone*). And, Bond isn't 100 % sure if he did give away secrets under pressure.
Rewrite Toby Stephens character as UK trying to keep track of what Bond is actually doing, keeping a rivalry between them (friendly turning to deadly - he's there to take Bond out if UK fears turn out to be correct). Keep Ros Pike as the actual traitor - maybe she met the Korean at University or on a fencing tournament or something. The General wants to get revenge on UK/Bond so there's your over-arching plot.
And Madsen? Keep his role ambivalent. He has no friends, only interests. Halle Berry might be the equivalent of Toby Stephens character in this for the US - they're not sure what Madsen is doing either. Or just cut her altogether.
No DNA malarky, no ice castles, no invisible cars. Just a grief stricken old man trying to avenge his son, Bond trying to work out if he is the liability and three or four characters that you just don't know if you trust or not.
If you can't write that into a decent film, then you're useless, frankly."
I think the lockdown should start to be lifted by the end of the month.
I don't think it's the worst of all worlds. The NHS hasn't hit capacity, and the virus hasn't gone away, so we need to safely reinstate as much economic activity as we can within its bounds.
Exactly right. The number of new infections will be on a downward path, and we can SLOWLY begin to remove the most severe restrictions.
I can see social distancing remaining for some time.
But, I don't see why that can't permit openings of schools and nurseries (definitely), pubs, restuarants and cinemas (with suitable separation and timing/booked seatings, if necessary) plus parents, grandparents and their children being able to see one another.
Nightclubs, crowded bars, mass parties, and large race meets may still need to be postponed (for now) unless and until they can be done safely.
(Oh, and strip the bloody police of their extra powers asap.)
Those police powers are going nowhere soon. The time they will most be needed is to prevent idiots taking stupid risks when people are venturing out and about again. They will remain high profile, walking around the towns, cruising around in cars, giving people, er, "reassurance".... In case anybody might cough.
The police have behaved appallingly this crisis and have lost my confidence. They aren’t able to discern between genuine “idiots” and just picking on families and couples unnecessarily because they can. They don’t understand either the law or the risk.
I don’t want them having the powers one second longer than necessary, and then I want all increases in their numbers cancelled.
There's absolutely no chance of this happening.
Well, that certainly isn’t true.
In a climate of public spending retrenchment (which will be necessary) a reverse in police numbers is certainly a possibility- particularly if they’ve trashed their reputation and trust.
Most Police Officers are good people, there's bound to be a few idiots within any organisation and within the Police they tend to get the attention of the public - especially in the age of smartphones and the internet.
We don't necessarily need more of fewer Officers, we need to weed out idiots.
Idiots will idiot but we should blame the government for confusing everyone with its mixed messaging and inconsistent regulations. You can go to the park but not lie down when you get there. You must stay 2m apart, and exercise, but not by playing tennis even though you would be much further apart.
And why 2m? It is clear some people have no idea 2m is the same as 6 feet, or the height of a tall man, or two supermarket trolley-lengths. And if 2m is related to saliva spray plus a margin of error then shouldn't masks make it irrelevant? Ah but we do not require masks because of reasons and not because HMG's ballsed up procurement and all the other countries are wrong!
On what scientific or comparative statistical basis the UK doing badly? That above chart? The chart that takes into account no context or size of country, population differences and so on? For gods sake.
In 6 months time if the death toll here is comparatively high per head of population vs other countries you can say that but we are early into a multi month situation with a virus we understand little about so far despite all the great work done by scientists. As it stands the UK's situation is not exceptionally bad, nor good. We have no absolute methodology of putting this to ground, its purely management for demand on the public health system. Lots of people have had it, lots will get it in the months to come
People are dying, what a surprise, did you miss the kind of numbers being bandied about at the start? People will die for months to come. Only then can we judge whether we are doing 'badly'.
John Burn Murdoch explains his rationale in the video below. There's no "right answer" but there's a reason why this chart gets widely quoted. It's all about trends. The UK will probably end up with a similar death toll to Italy in this phase of epidemic. As Italy and the UK have similar populations, deaths per million will also be similar. Several other countries in Europe will have better initial outcomes. These will at least be in part be sure to those governments taking better decisions and executing better on them.
Re: the question of should the curves be per capita or not? As so often with graphical representation of data, both can be valid depending on what you want to show. The total numbers are relevant in terms of how much a single country is affected. The responses are made based on national concerns like shutting borders and decision to lock down. Per-capita is also very useful, to show the concentration, but large countries will be down weighted as almost all large countries have areas with few cases, and the small countries will be either very high (Andora) or very low (Faroe Islands) based on whether they have had an outbreak or not, so the graph will have to cut off all countries with a population lower than some chosen value. Plotting per-capita graphs will not eliminate the influences of borders.
Interesting and perceptive thread header Alastair, thanks.
One question on my mind regarding the inevitable eventual financial solution - printing money. If the UK, US, Japan and Eurozone all took the same approach what, if any, real 'debauching of currency' would there be?
Interesting and perceptive thread header Alastair, thanks.
One question on my mind regarding the inevitable eventual financial solution - printing money. If the UK, US, Japan and Eurozone all took the same approach what, if any, real 'debauching of currency' would there be?
This is what I’m interested in. If everyone debases at once, everywhere, as an one-off. Does it matter?
I don’t know the answer. It’s probably not a trick you could pull a second time, and would set a dangerous precedent.
Lockdown -- looking at A-road traffic yesterday, I'd say it looked more like a normal Sunday rather than being almost deserted as at the start of the lockdown.
I think the lockdown should start to be lifted by the end of the month.
I don't think it's the worst of all worlds. The NHS hasn't hit capacity, and the virus hasn't gone away, so we need to safely reinstate as much economic activity as we can within its bounds.
Exactly right. The number of new infections will be on a downward path, and we can SLOWLY begin to remove the most severe restrictions.
I can see social distancing remaining for some time.
But, I don't see why that can't permit openings of schools and nurseries (definitely), pubs, restuarants and cinemas (with suitable separation and timing/booked seatings, if necessary) plus parents, grandparents and their children being able to see one another.
Nightclubs, crowded bars, mass parties, and large race meets may still need to be postponed (for now) unless and until they can be done safely.
(Oh, and strip the bloody police of their extra powers asap.)
Those police powers are going nowhere soon. The time they will most be needed is to prevent idiots taking stupid risks when people are venturing out and about again. They will remain high profile, walking around the towns, cruising around in cars, giving people, er, "reassurance".... In case anybody might cough.
The police have behaved appallingly this crisis and have lost my confidence. They aren’t able to discern between genuine “idiots” and just picking on families and couples unnecessarily because they can. They don’t understand either the law or the risk.
I don’t want them having the powers one second longer than necessary, and then I want all increases in their numbers cancelled.
There's absolutely no chance of this happening.
Well, that certainly isn’t true.
In a climate of public spending retrenchment (which will be necessary) a reverse in police numbers is certainly a possibility- particularly if they’ve trashed their reputation and trust.
Most Police Officers are good people, there's bound to be a few idiots within any organisation and within the Police they tend to get the attention of the public - especially in the age of smartphones and the internet.
Agree. Some bastards are also policemen, in the same way that some bastards are also cyclists.
The message when we do come out of lockdown has to remain: "This thing is still out there - and this thing can still kill you." Nobody with ANY symptoms should leave the house. Everybody that leaves the house needs to wear a mask. I don't know whether we will have enough masks for the end of April? Those who can work from home should continue to do so. Those who can't will worry about using public transport. Everyone with a mask needs to be the norm for travellers to feel less ill at ease. Plenty won't have a job to go back to, depsite the best efforts of government. That will obviously not look normal.
I'm not sure how different any of the first stages of any return to "normal" will look. Some shops will re-open - but will people go there? Pubs, cinemas, clubs, theatres, concert halls - they will remain closed. Restaurants with well-spaced tables? Maybe. You can resume seeing friends again - but will you? "This thing is still out there - and this thing can still kill you." How badly do you want to catch up on their gossip of how their life under lockdown was, er, just the same as yours? To hear how they probably don't have a job next month. What an uplifting trip out that will be....
But schools can re-open. That will be a change. A return to normal. Building sites can get back to building offices no-one needs, homes no-one can afford. We can - maybe - go out in our cars without a police drone tailing us. We can - maybe - take a drive in a National Park. But it will still feel like a life devoid of fun.
Yes please. Social distancing will have to continue for a long time. We can get used to having to space out in queues - we're British. It'll be phased of course. That's fine - so lets plan it. We will have some droogs who ignore it, and they can be dealt with. But we need something to work towards.
I’m baffled (genuinely) at why so much of the country favours such restrictive measures for such a long time and enthusiastically looks forward to policing them in others.
I’m increasingly coming round to @edmundintokyo’s view: the British hate freedom.
The Prof seems to have decided for the government.
Professor Neil Ferguson, whose modelling has guided Downing Street’s crisis strategy, this morning told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that when the UK lockdown does eventually end, social distancing measures are likely to remain in place “indefinitely” until a coronavirus vaccine can be rolled out.
Ferguson warned that it would not be possible to relax the lockdown until a significant infrastructure was in place.
He said the UK’s ability to come out of lockdown would “depend on how quickly case numbers go down”. But it would also require an emphasis on scaling up testing and contact tracing, because if measures were relaxed without a strong plan in place there was too much risk of a resurgence in cases.
Ferguson said there were some first signs that social distancing measure in the UK may be working, with trends such as the number of calls to 999, 111 and admissions to hospital beginning to flatten.
But he said more needed to be done to ensure the UK could leave lockdown safety. He called for a “command and control centre”, and suggested that any tracing provided by mobile phone apps would have to be supplemented by a “small army” of people testing and tracing.
“I would like to see action accelerated, decisions need to be accelerated and real progress made,” he said....
I think the lockdown should start to be lifted by the end of the month.
I don't think it's the worst of all worlds. The NHS hasn't hit capacity, and the virus hasn't gone away, so we need to safely reinstate as much economic activity as we can within its bounds.
Exactly right. The number of new infections will be on a downward path, and we can SLOWLY begin to remove the most severe restrictions.
I can see social distancing remaining for some time.
But, I don't see why that can't permit openings of schools and nurseries (definitely), pubs, restuarants and cinemas (with suitable separation and timing/booked seatings, if necessary) plus parents, grandparents and their children being able to see one another.
Nightclubs, crowded bars, mass parties, and large race meets may still need to be postponed (for now) unless and until they can be done safely.
(Oh, and strip the bloody police of their extra powers asap.)
Those police powers are going nowhere soon. The time they will most be needed is to prevent idiots taking stupid risks when people are venturing out and about again. They will remain high profile, walking around the towns, cruising around in cars, giving people, er, "reassurance".... In case anybody might cough.
The police have behaved appallingly this crisis and have lost my confidence. They aren’t able to discern between genuine “idiots” and just picking on families and couples unnecessarily because they can. They don’t understand either the law or the risk.
I don’t want them having the powers one second longer than necessary, and then I want all increases in their numbers cancelled.
There's absolutely no chance of this happening.
Well, that certainly isn’t true.
In a climate of public spending retrenchment (which will be necessary) a reverse in police numbers is certainly a possibility- particularly if they’ve trashed their reputation and trust.
Most Police Officers are good people, there's bound to be a few idiots within any organisation and within the Police they tend to get the attention of the public - especially in the age of smartphones and the internet.
We don't necessarily need more of fewer Officers, we need to weed out idiots.
Yes, stop and question shouldn't apply to white middle class people. That wasn't the idea at all!
Not sure how you got that from what I wrote.
I think all of his views are informed by an obsession as to whether he perceives the advocate secretly possess any degree of subconscious bias over race.
Interesting and perceptive thread header Alastair, thanks.
One question on my mind regarding the inevitable eventual financial solution - printing money. If the UK, US, Japan and Eurozone all took the same approach what, if any, real 'debauching of currency' would there be?
This is what I’m interested in. If everyone debases at once, everywhere, as an one-off. Does it matter?
I don’t know the answer. It’s probably not a trick you could pull a second time, and would set a dangerous precedent.
Well it needs international coordination of course - some kind of Bretton Woods style conference.
Also, some important players will be outside the agreement, notably China. But would the G7 care much if the Yuan rose in value vis-a-vis the USD, EUR, GPB and JPY?
Diamonds Are Forever and Die Another Day were diabolical. The Man with the Golden Gun isn’t far behind - could have been great (and I love the location shots) but ruined by so many things.
A View to A Kill is saved by Christopher Walken.
There is, potentially, a good plot hiding away in Die Another Day.
"The pre credits are good and the scenes in Hong Kong decent. And where does that leave us?
UK think he cracked and gave away state secrets, you've got Micheal Madsen as a US agent who thinks Bond cracked, a Korean general who lost his son and Bond trying to find who set him up in Korea (you need to make it slightly clearer in that scene that he got set up by *someone*). And, Bond isn't 100 % sure if he did give away secrets under pressure.
Rewrite Toby Stephens character as UK trying to keep track of what Bond is actually doing, keeping a rivalry between them (friendly turning to deadly - he's there to take Bond out if UK fears turn out to be correct). Keep Ros Pike as the actual traitor - maybe she met the Korean at University or on a fencing tournament or something. The General wants to get revenge on UK/Bond so there's your over-arching plot.
And Madsen? Keep his role ambivalent. He has no friends, only interests. Halle Berry might be the equivalent of Toby Stephens character in this for the US - they're not sure what Madsen is doing either. Or just cut her altogether.
No DNA malarky, no ice castles, no invisible cars. Just a grief stricken old man trying to avenge his son, Bond trying to work out if he is the liability and three or four characters that you just don't know if you trust or not.
If you can't write that into a decent film, then you're useless, frankly."
My wife loves Die Another Day.
I think its also Brosnan's favourite - his commentary of the film is a delight.
Then he's an idiot. It is not worthy to buff Goldeneye's shoes.
The Madonna theme tune is much maligned but I think it works as a Bond theme. Less said about the cameo the better.
I think the lockdown should start to be lifted by the end of the month.
I don't think it's the worst of all worlds. The NHS hasn't hit capacity, and the virus hasn't gone away, so we need to safely reinstate as much economic activity as we can within its bounds.
Exactly right. The number of new infections will be on a downward path, and we can SLOWLY begin to remove the most severe restrictions.
I can see social distancing remaining for some time.
But, I don't see why that can't permit openings of schools and nurseries (definitely), pubs, restuarants and cinemas (with suitable separation and timing/booked seatings, if necessary) plus parents, grandparents and their children being able to see one another.
Nightclubs, crowded bars, mass parties, and large race meets may still need to be postponed (for now) unless and until they can be done safely.
(Oh, and strip the bloody police of their extra powers asap.)
Those police powers are going nowhere soon. The time they will most be needed is to prevent idiots taking stupid risks when people are venturing out and about again. They will remain high profile, walking around the towns, cruising around in cars, giving people, er, "reassurance".... In case anybody might cough.
The police have behaved appallingly this crisis and have lost my confidence. They aren’t able to discern between genuine “idiots” and just picking on families and couples unnecessarily because they can. They don’t understand either the law or the risk.
I don’t want them having the powers one second longer than necessary, and then I want all increases in their numbers cancelled.
There's absolutely no chance of this happening.
Well, that certainly isn’t true.
In a climate of public spending retrenchment (which will be necessary) a reverse in police numbers is certainly a possibility- particularly if they’ve trashed their reputation and trust.
Most Police Officers are good people, there's bound to be a few idiots within any organisation and within the Police they tend to get the attention of the public - especially in the age of smartphones and the internet.
We don't necessarily need more of fewer Officers, we need to weed out idiots.
Unfortunately, many of those idiots exist at leadership and commissioner level.
I think the police have been wholly captured by producer interest and are interested only in pushing the latest fashionable social theories and politically correct tropes. They go for low-hanging fruit and obsessively pursue irrelevant metrics whilst doing their job in such a way as represents the easiest path of least resistance.
I don’t have confidence in them any longer to exercise judgment in supporting and serving the public, and nor do I think they are encouraged to do so.
Interesting and perceptive thread header Alastair, thanks.
One question on my mind regarding the inevitable eventual financial solution - printing money. If the UK, US, Japan and Eurozone all took the same approach what, if any, real 'debauching of currency' would there be?
This is what I’m interested in. If everyone debases at once, everywhere, as an one-off. Does it matter?
I don’t know the answer. It’s probably not a trick you could pull a second time, and would set a dangerous precedent.
Well it needs international coordination of course - some kind of Bretton Woods style conference.
Also, some important players will be outside the agreement, notably China. But would the G7 care much if the Yuan rose in value vis-a-vis the USD,
EUR, GPB and JPY?
Since it would generate significant inflation, probably yes.
Diamonds Are Forever and Die Another Day were diabolical. The Man with the Golden Gun isn’t far behind - could have been great (and I love the location shots) but ruined by so many things.
A View to A Kill is saved by Christopher Walken.
There is, potentially, a good plot hiding away in Die Another Day.
"The pre credits are good and the scenes in Hong Kong decent. And where does that leave us?
UK think he cracked and gave away state secrets, you've got Micheal Madsen as a US agent who thinks Bond cracked, a Korean general who lost his son and Bond trying to find who set him up in Korea (you need to make it slightly clearer in that scene that he got set up by *someone*). And, Bond isn't 100 % sure if he did give away secrets under pressure.
Rewrite Toby Stephens character as UK trying to keep track of what Bond is actually doing, keeping a rivalry between them (friendly turning to deadly - he's there to take Bond out if UK fears turn out to be correct). Keep Ros Pike as the actual traitor - maybe she met the Korean at University or on a fencing tournament or something. The General wants to get revenge on UK/Bond so there's your over-arching plot.
And Madsen? Keep his role ambivalent. He has no friends, only interests. Halle Berry might be the equivalent of Toby Stephens character in this for the US - they're not sure what Madsen is doing either. Or just cut her altogether.
No DNA malarky, no ice castles, no invisible cars. Just a grief stricken old man trying to avenge his son, Bond trying to work out if he is the liability and three or four characters that you just don't know if you trust or not.
If you can't write that into a decent film, then you're useless, frankly."
My wife loves Die Another Day.
I think its also Brosnan's favourite - his commentary of the film is a delight.
Then he's an idiot. It is not worthy to buff Goldeneye's shoes.
The Madonna theme tune is much maligned but I think it works as a Bond theme. Less said about the cameo the better.
Goldeneye is by far his best film.
I think that’s mainly because of Martin Campbell - he got him to act.
Interesting and perceptive thread header Alastair, thanks.
One question on my mind regarding the inevitable eventual financial solution - printing money. If the UK, US, Japan and Eurozone all took the same approach what, if any, real 'debauching of currency' would there be?
This is what I’m interested in. If everyone debases at once, everywhere, as an one-off. Does it matter?
I don’t know the answer. It’s probably not a trick you could pull a second time, and would set a dangerous precedent.
It doesn't matter until Switzerland quietly and swiftly purchases the world.
Away with all this doom and gloom promoted hour by hour in the media and let us all congratulate Captain Tom who just completed his 100 laps live on BBC
He is the true spirit of our nation, a real hero and inspiration
His positive attitude and can do is sadly lacking from so many doomsters
He has just said live on BBC
'The sun will shine on you and the clouds will go away'
Put that front and centre of our thoughts and seek the good not the bad
The Prof seems to have decided for the government.
Professor Neil Ferguson, whose modelling has guided Downing Street’s crisis strategy, this morning told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that when the UK lockdown does eventually end, social distancing measures are likely to remain in place “indefinitely” until a coronavirus vaccine can be rolled out.
Ferguson warned that it would not be possible to relax the lockdown until a significant infrastructure was in place.
He said the UK’s ability to come out of lockdown would “depend on how quickly case numbers go down”. But it would also require an emphasis on scaling up testing and contact tracing, because if measures were relaxed without a strong plan in place there was too much risk of a resurgence in cases.
Ferguson said there were some first signs that social distancing measure in the UK may be working, with trends such as the number of calls to 999, 111 and admissions to hospital beginning to flatten.
But he said more needed to be done to ensure the UK could leave lockdown safety. He called for a “command and control centre”, and suggested that any tracing provided by mobile phone apps would have to be supplemented by a “small army” of people testing and tracing.
“I would like to see action accelerated, decisions need to be accelerated and real progress made,” he said....
It’s a good example of the problems this lockdown/shutdown has caused. Once the measures are in place they won’t easily or readily be lifted because people are far too risk averse to be brave enough to take the (very modest) risk of doing so.
They will need to be first reassured by the government and then told.
The message when we do come out of lockdown has to remain: "This thing is still out there - and this thing can still kill you." Nobody with ANY symptoms should leave the house. Everybody that leaves the house needs to wear a mask. I don't know whether we will have enough masks for the end of April? Those who can work from home should continue to do so. Those who can't will worry about using public transport. Everyone with a mask needs to be the norm for travellers to feel less ill at ease. Plenty won't have a job to go back to, depsite the best efforts of government. That will obviously not look normal.
I'm not sure how different any of the first stages of any return to "normal" will look. Some shops will re-open - but will people go there? Pubs, cinemas, clubs, theatres, concert halls - they will remain closed. Restaurants with well-spaced tables? Maybe. You can resume seeing friends again - but will you? "This thing is still out there - and this thing can still kill you." How badly do you want to catch up on their gossip of how their life under lockdown was, er, just the same as yours? To hear how they probably don't have a job next month. What an uplifting trip out that will be....
But schools can re-open. That will be a change. A return to normal. Building sites can get back to building offices no-one needs, homes no-one can afford. We can - maybe - go out in our cars without a police drone tailing us. We can - maybe - take a drive in a National Park. But it will still feel like a life devoid of fun.
Yes please. Social distancing will have to continue for a long time. We can get used to having to space out in queues - we're British. It'll be phased of course. That's fine - so lets plan it. We will have some droogs who ignore it, and they can be dealt with. But we need something to work towards.
I’m baffled (genuinely) at why so much of the country favours such restrictive measures for such a long time and enthusiastically looks forward to policing them in others.
I’m increasingly coming round to @edmundintokyo’s view: the British hate freedom.
The evidence is overwhelming that most people favour banning more things, passing more laws and limiting freedoms. Not only are libertarians an endangered species, but liberals are becoming rare too.
the biggest indicator that the UK government has done an OK job is that PB is back to discussing the merits of Bond films.
Berlingske newspaper (centre-right Danish paper) headline today - "The Last Month: Was it Denmark's biggest ever overreaction" - something that UK ministers can look forward to in a few weeks. I have no doubt Anna Soubry, Piers Morgan et al will bemoan the "waste of money" on Nightingale hospitals
The Prof seems to have decided for the government.
Professor Neil Ferguson, whose modelling has guided Downing Street’s crisis strategy, this morning told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that when the UK lockdown does eventually end, social distancing measures are likely to remain in place “indefinitely” until a coronavirus vaccine can be rolled out.
Ferguson warned that it would not be possible to relax the lockdown until a significant infrastructure was in place.
He said the UK’s ability to come out of lockdown would “depend on how quickly case numbers go down”. But it would also require an emphasis on scaling up testing and contact tracing, because if measures were relaxed without a strong plan in place there was too much risk of a resurgence in cases.
Ferguson said there were some first signs that social distancing measure in the UK may be working, with trends such as the number of calls to 999, 111 and admissions to hospital beginning to flatten.
But he said more needed to be done to ensure the UK could leave lockdown safety. He called for a “command and control centre”, and suggested that any tracing provided by mobile phone apps would have to be supplemented by a “small army” of people testing and tracing.
“I would like to see action accelerated, decisions need to be accelerated and real progress made,” he said....
Diamonds Are Forever and Die Another Day were diabolical. The Man with the Golden Gun isn’t far behind - could have been great (and I love the location shots) but ruined by so many things.
A View to A Kill is saved by Christopher Walken.
There is, potentially, a good plot hiding away in Die Another Day.
"The pre credits are good and the scenes in Hong Kong decent. And where does that leave us?
UK think he cracked and gave away state secrets, you've got Micheal Madsen as a US agent who thinks Bond cracked, a Korean general who lost his son and Bond trying to find who set him up in Korea (you need to make it slightly clearer in that scene that he got set up by *someone*). And, Bond isn't 100 % sure if he did give away secrets under pressure.
Rewrite Toby Stephens character as UK trying to keep track of what Bond is actually doing, keeping a rivalry between them (friendly turning to deadly - he's there to take Bond out if UK fears turn out to be correct). Keep Ros Pike as the actual traitor - maybe she met the Korean at University or on a fencing tournament or something. The General wants to get revenge on UK/Bond so there's your over-arching plot.
And Madsen? Keep his role ambivalent. He has no friends, only interests. Halle Berry might be the equivalent of Toby Stephens character in this for the US - they're not sure what Madsen is doing either. Or just cut her altogether.
No DNA malarky, no ice castles, no invisible cars. Just a grief stricken old man trying to avenge his son, Bond trying to work out if he is the liability and three or four characters that you just don't know if you trust or not.
If you can't write that into a decent film, then you're useless, frankly."
My wife loves Die Another Day.
I think its also Brosnan's favourite - his commentary of the film is a delight.
Then he's an idiot. It is not worthy to buff Goldeneye's shoes.
The Madonna theme tune is much maligned but I think it works as a Bond theme. Less said about the cameo the better.
Goldeneye is by far his best film.
I think that’s mainly because of Martin Campbell - he got him to act.
It is a wonderful Bond film, they made sure to add every ingredient that made the films great. By the time the current iteration had worked up to adding all the ingredients, they had gone off. Leading to the stinker that was Spectre.
Away with all this doom and gloom promoted hour by hour in the media and let us all congratulate Captain Tom who just completed his 100 laps live on BBC
He is the true spirit of our nation, a real hero and inspiration
His positive attitude and can do is sadly lacking from so many doomsters
He has just said live on BBC
'The sun will shine on you and the clouds will go away'
Put that front and centre of our thoughts and seek the good not the bad
Which has nothing to do with the hard policy choices coming up. With all due respect to the Major, he doesn’t have to worry about whether he’ll have a job next month... or for the rest of the decade for that matter.
Diamonds Are Forever and Die Another Day were diabolical. The Man with the Golden Gun isn’t far behind - could have been great (and I love the location shots) but ruined by so many things.
A View to A Kill is saved by Christopher Walken.
There is, potentially, a good plot hiding away in Die Another Day.
"The pre credits are good and the scenes in Hong Kong decent. And where does that leave us?
UK think he cracked and gave away state secrets, you've got Micheal Madsen as a US agent who thinks Bond cracked, a Korean general who lost his son and Bond trying to find who set him up in Korea (you need to make it slightly clearer in that scene that he got set up by *someone*). And, Bond isn't 100 % sure if he did give away secrets under pressure.
Rewrite Toby Stephens character as UK trying to keep track of what Bond is actually doing, keeping a rivalry between them (friendly turning to deadly - he's there to take Bond out if UK fears turn out to be correct). Keep Ros Pike as the actual traitor - maybe she met the Korean at University or on a fencing tournament or something. The General wants to get revenge on UK/Bond so there's your over-arching plot.
And Madsen? Keep his role ambivalent. He has no friends, only interests. Halle Berry might be the equivalent of Toby Stephens character in this for the US - they're not sure what Madsen is doing either. Or just cut her altogether.
No DNA malarky, no ice castles, no invisible cars. Just a grief stricken old man trying to avenge his son, Bond trying to work out if he is the liability and three or four characters that you just don't know if you trust or not.
If you can't write that into a decent film, then you're useless, frankly."
My wife loves Die Another Day.
I think its also Brosnan's favourite - his commentary of the film is a delight.
Then he's an idiot. It is not worthy to buff Goldeneye's shoes.
The Madonna theme tune is much maligned but I think it works as a Bond theme. Less said about the cameo the better.
Goldeneye is by far his best film.
I think that’s mainly because of Martin Campbell - he got him to act.
It is a wonderful Bond film, they made sure to add every ingredient that made the films great. By the time the current iteration had worked up to adding all the ingredients, they had gone off. Leading to the stinker that was Spectre.
The Prof seems to have decided for the government.
Professor Neil Ferguson, whose modelling has guided Downing Street’s crisis strategy, this morning told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that when the UK lockdown does eventually end, social distancing measures are likely to remain in place “indefinitely” until a coronavirus vaccine can be rolled out.
Ferguson warned that it would not be possible to relax the lockdown until a significant infrastructure was in place.
He said the UK’s ability to come out of lockdown would “depend on how quickly case numbers go down”. But it would also require an emphasis on scaling up testing and contact tracing, because if measures were relaxed without a strong plan in place there was too much risk of a resurgence in cases.
Ferguson said there were some first signs that social distancing measure in the UK may be working, with trends such as the number of calls to 999, 111 and admissions to hospital beginning to flatten.
But he said more needed to be done to ensure the UK could leave lockdown safety. He called for a “command and control centre”, and suggested that any tracing provided by mobile phone apps would have to be supplemented by a “small army” of people testing and tracing.
“I would like to see action accelerated, decisions need to be accelerated and real progress made,” he said....
Another three weeks, at least.
Thankfully, it’s not up to him.
You sure ?
If it thinks Britain will put up with more than another month of this, then he needs to have a chat with the human behaviour modellers.
Away with all this doom and gloom promoted hour by hour in the media and let us all congratulate Captain Tom who just completed his 100 laps live on BBC
He is the true spirit of our nation, a real hero and inspiration
His positive attitude and can do is sadly lacking from so many doomsters
He has just said live on BBC
'The sun will shine on you and the clouds will go away'
Put that front and centre of our thoughts and seek the good not the bad
Which has nothing to do with the hard policy choices coming up. With all due respect to the Major, he doesn’t have to worry about whether he’ll have a job next month... or for the rest of the decade for that matter.
The Prof seems to have decided for the government.
Professor Neil Ferguson, whose modelling has guided Downing Street’s crisis strategy, this morning told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that when the UK lockdown does eventually end, social distancing measures are likely to remain in place “indefinitely” until a coronavirus vaccine can be rolled out.
Ferguson warned that it would not be possible to relax the lockdown until a significant infrastructure was in place.
He said the UK’s ability to come out of lockdown would “depend on how quickly case numbers go down”. But it would also require an emphasis on scaling up testing and contact tracing, because if measures were relaxed without a strong plan in place there was too much risk of a resurgence in cases.
Ferguson said there were some first signs that social distancing measure in the UK may be working, with trends such as the number of calls to 999, 111 and admissions to hospital beginning to flatten.
But he said more needed to be done to ensure the UK could leave lockdown safety. He called for a “command and control centre”, and suggested that any tracing provided by mobile phone apps would have to be supplemented by a “small army” of people testing and tracing.
“I would like to see action accelerated, decisions need to be accelerated and real progress made,” he said....
Another three weeks, at least.
Thankfully, it’s not up to him.
You sure ?
He’s not the only source of advice to the Government, and the Government decide.
Is James Bond that franchise that is never as good as it never was?
A bit like Dr Who*, for spies...
*Dr Who has reappeared in BBC iPlayer archive section with the first modern series.
It’s also on Netflix.
Er... So you don't have to accept the free version, you can pay a subscription to watch it? Sounds great!
Which versions free in your eyes?
The BBC costs far, far more than Netflix. If you're on a tight budget then getting Netflix is much cheaper as well as much better value for money. The BBC is a luxury more than Netflix.
The message when we do come out of lockdown has to remain: "This thing is still out there - and this thing can still kill you." Nobody with ANY symptoms should leave the house. Everybody that leaves the house needs to wear a mask. I don't know whether we will have enough masks for the end of April? Those who can work from home should continue to do so. Those who can't will worry about using public transport. Everyone with a mask needs to be the norm for travellers to feel less ill at ease. Plenty won't have a job to go back to, depsite the best efforts of government. That will obviously not look normal.
I'm not sure how different any of the first stages of any return to "normal" will look. Some shops will re-open - but will people go there? Pubs, cinemas, clubs, theatres, concert halls - they will remain closed. Restaurants with well-spaced tables? Maybe. You can resume seeing friends again - but will you? "This thing is still out there - and this thing can still kill you." How badly do you want to catch up on their gossip of how their life under lockdown was, er, just the same as yours? To hear how they probably don't have a job next month. What an uplifting trip out that will be....
But schools can re-open. That will be a change. A return to normal. Building sites can get back to building offices no-one needs, homes no-one can afford. We can - maybe - go out in our cars without a police drone tailing us. We can - maybe - take a drive in a National Park. But it will still feel like a life devoid of fun.
Yes please. Social distancing will have to continue for a long time. We can get used to having to space out in queues - we're British. It'll be phased of course. That's fine - so lets plan it. We will have some droogs who ignore it, and they can be dealt with. But we need something to work towards.
I’m baffled (genuinely) at why so much of the country favours such restrictive measures for such a long time and enthusiastically looks forward to policing them in others.
I’m increasingly coming round to @edmundintokyo’s view: the British hate freedom.
The evidence is overwhelming that most people favour banning more things, passing more laws and limiting freedoms. Not only are libertarians an endangered species, but liberals are becoming rare too.
Agreed. It’s extremely depressing. You now see how human societies go through cycles of enlightenment followed by tyranny. Just like Ancient Greece did.
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Edit - if you want to have a round where everybody gets a point, you could ask them which day the Russian Revolution happened, out of (a) 23rd February (b) 8th March and (c) International Women’s Day. Because, of course, all three of those are correct, so whichever answer they give they get a point.
Pregnant woman goes out of her room, goes to the fridge, opens a can of tuna, a soda, a yogurt, and a cookie.
What did she open first?
Everyone remembers the sight gags and the cheesy lasers but the first hour or so is Bond doing a decent amount of investigative and detective work and it has some great location shots in Rio and Venice.
Also, I quite like Barry’s score and there are moments of genuine suspense, such as when the lab technicians die due to the orchid, Corrine is chased to her death by dogs and Bond shotguns the sniper.
I find it quite fun.
Without googling them I guess
best selling album: George (had a couple of very big albums in the 70s)
Last No 1: Ringo (probably with other artists in a charity single)
My friends that evening thought I was going to need oxygen in the cinema.
https://youtu.be/LE1evIbc3mw
A View to A Kill is saved by Christopher Walken.
Bloody awful movie.
In the short term, I still see an inflationary spike, as people are released eager to do or buy stuff, and the wall of saved money plus government money meets shortages in supply, and businesses that need to recover lost profit. We're already seeing this in the industry worst affected, where cruise prices for 2021 bookings are rising.
However in the medium term, there are good reasons for thinking that we won't see a quick return to normal. Off the top of my head:
- we will be in a risk averse climate where many, particularly the more vulnerable, will be cautious about their lifestyle regardless of an official release;
- consumers missed by the rescue schemes, or who have taken loans or mortgage holidays, will need to repair their own finances;
- we are likely to live in fear of a return of the virus in winter 2020 and return of lockdown possibly sooner;
- the crisis will have ruined some businesses permanently, and it will take time for those assets to be re-used by new entrepreneurs;
- this month's experience may change some people's attitudes, reducing (possibly permanently) demand for leisure travel, business travel, and the thirst for conspicuous consumption. There will be people leaving the labour market, attracted by a quieter life;
- the level of new startups will surely fall, after such a vivid demonstration of the risks of starting your own business. Running your own café or restaurant is a bad dream right now.
- the government will have to repair the national balance sheet, which is going to mean taking money out of the economy.
In a climate of public spending retrenchment (which will be necessary) a reverse in police numbers is certainly a possibility- particularly if they’ve trashed their reputation and trust.
A: Screw threads
(got to have one for the engineers)
I'm off to bed. Thanks ALL for your great questions for my quiz night
Thx
*End Alan Partridge Mode*
https://twitter.com/janinegibson/status/1244519429825802240
What ist the relevance of the following years (in each given city)?
1582 in Rome
1582 and 1806 in Paris
1700 in Berlin
1752 in London
1873 in Kyoto
1918 in Moscow
Paris is particularly odd. I chose to specify cities because countries have changed since 1582.
"The pre credits are good and the scenes in Hong Kong decent.
And where does that leave us?
UK think he cracked and gave away state secrets, you've got Micheal Madsen as a US agent who thinks Bond cracked, a Korean general who lost his son and Bond trying to find who set him up in Korea (you need to make it slightly clearer in that scene that he got set up by *someone*). And, Bond isn't 100 % sure if he did give away secrets under pressure.
Rewrite Toby Stephens character as UK trying to keep track of what Bond is actually doing, keeping a rivalry between them (friendly turning to deadly - he's there to take Bond out if UK fears turn out to be correct). Keep Ros Pike as the actual traitor - maybe she met the Korean at University or on a fencing tournament or something. The General wants to get revenge on UK/Bond so there's your over-arching plot.
And Madsen? Keep his role ambivalent. He has no friends, only interests. Halle Berry might be the equivalent of Toby Stephens character in this for the US - they're not sure what Madsen is doing either. Or just cut her altogether.
No DNA malarky, no ice castles, no invisible cars. Just a grief stricken old man trying to avenge his son, Bond trying to work out if he is the liability and three or four characters that you just don't know if you trust or not.
If you can't write that into a decent film, then you're useless, frankly."
RBS, Northern Rock and Bradford and Bingley in the UK
Lehman Brothers in the US
I hope it’s not as bad as 13%.
https://www.discogs.com/Pete-Best-Best-Of-The-Beatles/release/4848805
A bit like Dr Who*, for spies...
*Dr Who has reappeared in BBC iPlayer archive section with the first modern series.
We don't necessarily need more of fewer Officers, we need to weed out idiots.
Very shrill. A lay as next leader.
Mind you, when I lived near Tower Hill, the police at the Tube station used to conduct searches for weapons, on occasion.
They seemed to be race/class "norming" - one group stopped gentlemen of the clothing, disposition etc to be gang members. They were all tense and waiting for something to happen.
Another group, on the other side of the entrance was stopping people in suits for a rather cursory search and chat.
One question on my mind regarding the inevitable eventual financial solution - printing money. If the UK, US, Japan and Eurozone all took the same approach what, if any, real 'debauching of currency' would there be?
Really. Don’t.
It’s getting close to outstaying its welcome though.
And why 2m? It is clear some people have no idea 2m is the same as 6 feet, or the height of a tall man, or two supermarket trolley-lengths. And if 2m is related to saliva spray plus a margin of error then shouldn't masks make it irrelevant? Ah but we do not require masks because of reasons and not because HMG's ballsed up procurement and all the other countries are wrong!
Re: the question of should the curves be per capita or not? As so often with graphical representation of data, both can be valid depending on what you want to show. The total numbers are relevant in terms of how much a single country is affected. The responses are made based on national concerns like shutting borders and decision to lock down. Per-capita is also very useful, to show the concentration, but large countries will be down weighted as almost all large countries have areas with few cases, and the small countries will be either very high (Andora) or very low (Faroe Islands) based on whether they have had an outbreak or not, so the graph will have to cut off all countries with a population lower than some chosen value. Plotting per-capita graphs will not eliminate the influences of borders.
I don’t know the answer. It’s probably not a trick you could pull a second time, and would set a dangerous precedent.
I’m increasingly coming round to @edmundintokyo’s view: the British hate freedom.
For those who wish to speculate on how long the lockdown will last, there's a clue for you.
Professor Neil Ferguson, whose modelling has guided Downing Street’s crisis strategy, this morning told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that when the UK lockdown does eventually end, social distancing measures are likely to remain in place “indefinitely” until a coronavirus vaccine can be rolled out.
Ferguson warned that it would not be possible to relax the lockdown until a significant infrastructure was in place.
He said the UK’s ability to come out of lockdown would “depend on how quickly case numbers go down”. But it would also require an emphasis on scaling up testing and contact tracing, because if measures were relaxed without a strong plan in place there was too much risk of a resurgence in cases.
Ferguson said there were some first signs that social distancing measure in the UK may be working, with trends such as the number of calls to 999, 111 and admissions to hospital beginning to flatten.
But he said more needed to be done to ensure the UK could leave lockdown safety. He called for a “command and control centre”, and suggested that any tracing provided by mobile phone apps would have to be supplemented by a “small army” of people testing and tracing.
“I would like to see action accelerated, decisions need to be accelerated and real progress made,” he said....
Another three weeks, at least.
Also, some important players will be outside the agreement, notably China. But would the G7 care much if the Yuan rose in value vis-a-vis the USD, EUR, GPB and JPY?
(Netflix is actually cheaper than the BBC for most of us as well.)
The Madonna theme tune is much maligned but I think it works as a Bond theme. Less said about the cameo the better.
I think the police have been wholly captured by producer interest and are interested only in pushing the latest fashionable social theories and politically correct tropes. They go for low-hanging fruit and obsessively pursue irrelevant metrics whilst doing their job in such a way as represents the easiest path of least resistance.
I don’t have confidence in them any longer to exercise judgment in supporting and serving the public, and nor do I think they are encouraged to do so.
Since it would generate significant inflation, probably yes.
I think that’s mainly because of Martin Campbell - he got him to act.
Away with all this doom and gloom promoted hour by hour in the media and let us all congratulate Captain Tom who just completed his 100 laps live on BBC
He is the true spirit of our nation, a real hero and inspiration
His positive attitude and can do is sadly lacking from so many doomsters
He has just said live on BBC
'The sun will shine on you and the clouds will go away'
Put that front and centre of our thoughts and seek the good not the bad
It’s a good example of the problems this lockdown/shutdown has caused. Once the measures are in place they won’t easily or readily be lifted because people are far too risk averse to be brave enough to take the (very modest) risk of doing so.
They will need to be first reassured by the government and then told.
Berlingske newspaper (centre-right Danish paper) headline today - "The Last Month: Was it Denmark's biggest ever overreaction" - something that UK ministers can look forward to in a few weeks. I have no doubt Anna Soubry, Piers Morgan et al will bemoan the "waste of money" on Nightingale hospitals
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b006q2x0/doctor-who
(or type iPlayer Dr Who in Google and the top hit is the same page)
How much easier can it be?
He and @Chris not having a good pandemic.
(Or at least, I don’t actually know from personal experience, but I surmise.)
With all due respect to the Major, he doesn’t have to worry about whether he’ll have a job next month... or for the rest of the decade for that matter.
I think it’s hugely overrated.
Never mind the economists.
And you miss the point altogether
And he is a Captain
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1250205685868122115
The BBC costs far, far more than Netflix. If you're on a tight budget then getting Netflix is much cheaper as well as much better value for money. The BBC is a luxury more than Netflix.
We are going backwards.
Name the american emperor that issued a decree that congress should be dissolved by force