Kudos to the JCVI, Hancock and even Blair for pushing the 8-12 week policy.
It's not only the EU who got this wrong but also the BMA and a few twitter celeb doctors like Rachel Clarke who are clearly not experts in the field of vaccinations. I'm glad for all our sakes our approach has been vindicated.
The BMA intervention looks particularly ill-judged now.
As they should - with far fewer people getting ill, you'd hope the tests for those who think they might have it will drop too.
I noticed that some days recently the tests completed was more than the PCR testing capacity. Clearly there are other forms of testing involved.
My wife is a part-time teacher and up until last week she hadn't been into school physically this year. Last week she did go in and she needed to do a lateral flow test the night before she went in and then again a couple of days after she was last in. She had to submit the results online. I suspect a large amount of the testing numbers could be coming from this - testing to ensure safety rather than because of symptoms.
I am not 100% sure it has surged, while there are well-documented cases of firms (and liquidity) exiting the market to the EU.
But I don't think the City is going to go anywhere soon as there is plenty of creativity there which will come to the fore.
The decision has been made for financial services in the UK. The previous business model that included London as the financial centre for Europe no longer applies, so no point in flogging a dead horse. London will continue as a domestically significant financial centre, which also offers certain products at the global level, so we should focus on those. I doubt the City benefits from Brexit, but it is all moot now.
Yep. There has been literally liquidity flight, along with the dependent firms and that is gone. Until we negotiate something different. But London is always good at innovation so we shall see I'm sure some interesting products.
As they should - with far fewer people getting ill, you'd hope the tests for those who think they might have it will drop too.
I noticed that some days recently the tests completed was more than the PCR testing capacity. Clearly there are other forms of testing involved.
My wife is a part-time teacher and up until last week she hadn't been into school physically this year. Last week she did go in and she needed to do a lateral flow test the night before she went in and then again a couple of days after she was last in. She had to submit the results online. I suspect a large amount of the testing numbers could be coming from this - testing to ensure safety rather than because of symptoms.
The same is true at my school, for those who are working there rather than from home. Tested twice a week I think.
As they should - with far fewer people getting ill, you'd hope the tests for those who think they might have it will drop too.
I noticed that some days recently the tests completed was more than the PCR testing capacity. Clearly there are other forms of testing involved.
My wife is a part-time teacher and up until last week she hadn't been into school physically this year. Last week she did go in and she needed to do a lateral flow test the night before she went in and then again a couple of days after she was last in. She had to submit the results online. I suspect a large amount of the testing numbers could be coming from this - testing to ensure safety rather than because of symptoms.
The same is true at my school, for those who are working there rather than from home. Tested twice a week I think.
Just out of interest did you get the vaccine because you were a teacher as in a policy decision or (don't tell me if it's no one's business) because you qualify as one of the priority groups?
As they should - with far fewer people getting ill, you'd hope the tests for those who think they might have it will drop too.
I noticed that some days recently the tests completed was more than the PCR testing capacity. Clearly there are other forms of testing involved.
My wife is a part-time teacher and up until last week she hadn't been into school physically this year. Last week she did go in and she needed to do a lateral flow test the night before she went in and then again a couple of days after she was last in. She had to submit the results online. I suspect a large amount of the testing numbers could be coming from this - testing to ensure safety rather than because of symptoms.
The same is true at my school, for those who are working there rather than from home. Tested twice a week I think.
Just out of interest did you get the vaccine because you were a teacher as in a policy decision or (don't tell me if it's no one's business) because you qualify as one of the priority groups?
Priority group: I've been on a three year course of immunotherapy for cancer that only finished in the summer, so I count as "clinically extremely vulnerable".
deeply disappointing Scotland vaccine numbers. May have to redo my projection of 1.2million vaccinations per day in Scotland by mid April.
Why are they disappointing? Inefficiencies or because a high percentage of Scots are declining?
That's what we call in North Britain a wee bit o' pawky humour.
I actually heard that phrase used for the first time ever outside of PB yesterday.
Well, used is the wrong word. I was listening to a reading of Very Good Jeeves and the Gentleman's Gentleman referred to the poet Burns as writing 'in the North British dialect'. Quite took me by surprise.
Where I am, ice cream vans often do drug dealing as a side line, with the cold stuff just for show.
Weren't they always just a front for something else? The ice-cream wars, etc?
And "where you are"? What, quaint Leicestershire villages?
So told to me by a patient in CID. Ice cream van businesses are also good for money laundering too apparently.
I am not sure if you are aware of "County Lines" but drug dealing is quite a thing in market towns.
There is certainly a suspicion round this way that ice cream vans aren't all they seem (or, rather, are doing exactly what you might expect). The story isn't restricted to Leicestershire.
I was going to post a similar response but was a bit slow.
There was a Peter Kay show about that. Mr. Softy and his XXX van. The sex shop in Bolton was named "Softy's Hard Stuff" in honour. Better than any statue.
As they should - with far fewer people getting ill, you'd hope the tests for those who think they might have it will drop too.
I noticed that some days recently the tests completed was more than the PCR testing capacity. Clearly there are other forms of testing involved.
My wife is a part-time teacher and up until last week she hadn't been into school physically this year. Last week she did go in and she needed to do a lateral flow test the night before she went in and then again a couple of days after she was last in. She had to submit the results online. I suspect a large amount of the testing numbers could be coming from this - testing to ensure safety rather than because of symptoms.
The same is true at my school, for those who are working there rather than from home. Tested twice a week I think.
Just out of interest did you get the vaccine because you were a teacher as in a policy decision or (don't tell me if it's no one's business) because you qualify as one of the priority groups?
Priority group: I've been on a three year course of immunotherapy for cancer that only finished in the summer, so I count as "clinically extremely vulnerable".
gotit thanks - hope the treatment went and is going well.
Allow me, a strange stranger from a strange(r) land, to rise in defense of the Great British Ice Cream Van!
In particular, like how they stick a stick of chocolate into your soft ice cream cone!!
And by the same token can I mark my appreciation, in one fine restaurant not a million miles from Lexington, KY, of a first course of "potato skins" which, it turned out when they arrived, were halved potatoes with all the stuff piled on top. Nine potatoes = 18 "potato skins". As a first course.
As they should - with far fewer people getting ill, you'd hope the tests for those who think they might have it will drop too.
I noticed that some days recently the tests completed was more than the PCR testing capacity. Clearly there are other forms of testing involved.
My wife is a part-time teacher and up until last week she hadn't been into school physically this year. Last week she did go in and she needed to do a lateral flow test the night before she went in and then again a couple of days after she was last in. She had to submit the results online. I suspect a large amount of the testing numbers could be coming from this - testing to ensure safety rather than because of symptoms.
The same is true at my school, for those who are working there rather than from home. Tested twice a week I think.
Just out of interest did you get the vaccine because you were a teacher as in a policy decision or (don't tell me if it's no one's business) because you qualify as one of the priority groups?
Priority group: I've been on a three year course of immunotherapy for cancer that only finished in the summer, so I count as "clinically extremely vulnerable".
gotit thanks - hope the treatment went and is going well.
Thanks. The last lot of treatment was back in the summer, and I had a test last week that was still clear, so I mostly had a good week (apart from an infection picked up during the test - you do NOT want to know what the test involved...)
Its absolutely absurd to offer equivalence to Aus and NZ but not the UK.
Of course equivalence should be the sane, rational solution but if they don't desire to be sane and rational we can't make them be.
We can however invoke Article 16.
But you have to admit that refusing to talk about SPS alignment looks bloody stupid from the UK side. This really is a classic case of two wrongs not making a right.
As they should - with far fewer people getting ill, you'd hope the tests for those who think they might have it will drop too.
I noticed that some days recently the tests completed was more than the PCR testing capacity. Clearly there are other forms of testing involved.
My wife is a part-time teacher and up until last week she hadn't been into school physically this year. Last week she did go in and she needed to do a lateral flow test the night before she went in and then again a couple of days after she was last in. She had to submit the results online. I suspect a large amount of the testing numbers could be coming from this - testing to ensure safety rather than because of symptoms.
The same is true at my school, for those who are working there rather than from home. Tested twice a week I think.
Just out of interest did you get the vaccine because you were a teacher as in a policy decision or (don't tell me if it's no one's business) because you qualify as one of the priority groups?
Priority group: I've been on a three year course of immunotherapy for cancer that only finished in the summer, so I count as "clinically extremely vulnerable".
gotit thanks - hope the treatment went and is going well.
Thanks. The last lot of treatment was back in the summer, and I had a test last week that was still clear, so I mostly had a good week (apart from an infection picked up during the test - you do NOT want to know what the test involved...)
Kudos to the JCVI, Hancock and even Blair for pushing the 8-12 week policy.
It's not only the EU who got this wrong but also the BMA and a few twitter celeb doctors like Rachel Clarke who are clearly not experts in the field of vaccinations. I'm glad for all our sakes our approach has been vindicated.
What will be most intriguing is if we go for a mixed dose regime of say AZ and then Pfizer/. Moderna / Novavax. Completely against manufacturer guidelines but scientifically thought to give better immunity.
Where I am, ice cream vans often do drug dealing as a side line, with the cold stuff just for show.
Weren't they always just a front for something else? The ice-cream wars, etc?
And "where you are"? What, quaint Leicestershire villages?
So told to me by a patient in CID. Ice cream van businesses are also good for money laundering too apparently.
I am not sure if you are aware of "County Lines" but drug dealing is quite a thing in market towns.
There is certainly a suspicion round this way that ice cream vans aren't all they seem (or, rather, are doing exactly what you might expect). The story isn't restricted to Leicestershire.
I was going to post a similar response but was a bit slow.
There was a Peter Kay show about that. Mr. Softy and his XXX van. The sex shop in Bolton was named "Softy's Hard Stuff" in honour. Better than any statue.
Kudos to the JCVI, Hancock and even Blair for pushing the 8-12 week policy.
It's not only the EU who got this wrong but also the BMA and a few twitter celeb doctors like Rachel Clarke who are clearly not experts in the field of vaccinations. I'm glad for all our sakes our approach has been vindicated.
What will be most intriguing is if we go for a mixed dose regime of say AZ and then Pfizer/. Moderna / Novavax. Completely against manufacturer guidelines but scientifically thought to give better immunity.
Given that the guidelines were written based on a single trial that isn't surprising. It doesn't automatically make it a bad choice.
Yep. There has been literally liquidity flight, along with the dependent firms and that is gone. Until we negotiate something different. But London is always good at innovation so we shall see I'm sure some interesting products.
On the previous thread I mentioned Lord Mandelson's webinar organised by DLA Piper yesterday. He covered the point about regulation of financial services, and was quite nuanced about it. He said that on balance he agreed with the government that a financial centre as important as ours should not be a 'rule-taker' from the EU, and that this would inevitably lead to some loss of EU-sourced business, but he was moderately positive on the possibility of this being compensated for by new opportunities (in Fintech etc). However, this would depend on us getting the regulatory regime right; we needed to be flexible and fast-moving, but should be very careful not to trash the UK's reputation by slapdash regulation. He was also concerned about other things the government is doing which might discourage financial organisations and small, entrepreneurial companies from setting up here.
In other words, there are opportunities in our new non-EU status, but he was concerned that the government wasn't taking a sufficiently joined-up approach to make the most of them.
Its absolutely absurd to offer equivalence to Aus and NZ but not the UK.
Of course equivalence should be the sane, rational solution but if they don't desire to be sane and rational we can't make them be.
We can however invoke Article 16.
But you have to admit that refusing to talk about SPS alignment looks bloody stupid from the UK side. This really is a classic case of two wrongs not making a right.
No I don't admit that unless SPS alignment is required for equivalence?
Do Aus and NZ have SPS alignment? If not and they still have equivalence then why is it necessary for the UK to be aligned?
Equivalence should be an alternative to alignment.
It will be quite close, but I think the government should beat the target by approx 300k, assuming no more acceleration. It might reach 15 million by Sunday without requiring the final counting day on Monday.
If it has a bumper weekend, it could smash the target.
Boris Johnson will lead a Downing Street press conference on coronavirus on Wednesday afternoon.
FFS what for? what's the point?
He can wibble on about holibobs.
That seems to be today's media fixation.
It is perfectly valid to ask about holidays at home and abroad.
Most people are not like the PB Home Bodies and have families who are desperate to get away, whether that be within the UK or abroad.
Nor do I accept the idea that the government is unable to model the situation in July – they will be doing exactly that.
So the press will ask questions. As they should.
PB older, (white?), male, well-off, large house-living, big garden or grounds-owning, non-tower block-living, best vintage of Ch. l'Evangile-discussing contributors say:
Why does everyone keep banging on about holidays? Being at home is perfectly agreeable.
And yet for many of those tower block living, non-wine swilling folks you talk of, holiday means swapping living in a set of small rooms on the 17th floor of a tower block in Birmingham for a few hours crammed into a plane and then 2 weeks living in a small room in a tower block in Spain.
If you are really concerned about their well being then stop making cheap points about holidays and start making serious points about their access to parks and the countryside without being hassled by the authorities.
Wow. The disdain you have for those tower block living folk really oozes out of you.
So you prescribe long, bracing walks in the countryside instead? I'm sure they are all ears.
No my disdain is reserved for you and your faux concern for those living in tower blocks when you really don't give a sh*t about them except to score political points.
Richard you seem angry (plus ça change - that's french btw).
You were sneering at those people who want to swap "a set of small rooms in Birmingham for a small room in Spain when they should really be going out for long walks in the country." I paraphase.
I hope it makes you feel better to be so dismissive of such people.
No I was sneering at you and your attitude. You really do need to learn the difference. Otherwise all my digs at you become pointless.
And why should I be angry? I have 3 acres of the most glorious snow filled land to wander in. I am loving lockdown.
Yep. There has been literally liquidity flight, along with the dependent firms and that is gone. Until we negotiate something different. But London is always good at innovation so we shall see I'm sure some interesting products.
On the previous thread I mentioned Lord Mandelson's webinar organised by DLA Piper yesterday. He covered the point about regulation of financial services, and was quite nuanced about it. He said that on balance he agreed with the government that a financial centre as important as ours should not be a 'rule-taker' from the EU, and that this would inevitably lead to some loss of EU-sourced business, but he was moderately positive on the possibility of this being compensated for by new opportunities (in Fintech etc). However, this would depend on us getting the regulatory regime right; we needed to be flexible and fast-moving, but should be very careful not to trash the UK's reputation by slapdash regulation. He was also concerned about other things the government is doing which might discourage financial organisations and small, entrepreneurial companies from setting up here.
In other words, there are opportunities in our new non-EU status, but he was concerned that the government wasn't taking a sufficiently joined-up approach to make the most of them.
Mandelson saying we should be, er, nimble? Surely not.....
On the previous thread I mentioned Lord Mandelson's webinar organised by DLA Piper yesterday. He covered the point about regulation of financial services, and was quite nuanced about it. He said that on balance he agreed with the government that a financial centre as important as ours should not be a 'rule-taker' from the EU, and that this would inevitably lead to some loss of EU-sourced business, but he was moderately positive on the possibility of this being compensated for by new opportunities (in Fintech etc). However, this would depend on us getting the regulatory regime right; we needed to be flexible and fast-moving, but should be very careful not to trash the UK's reputation by slapdash regulation. He was also concerned about other things the government is doing which might discourage financial organisations and small, entrepreneurial companies from setting up here.
In other words, there are opportunities in our new non-EU status, but he was concerned that the government wasn't taking a sufficiently joined-up approach to make the most of them.
The City is good at innovation left to its own devices. I'm sure the FCA will take some time out to determine its position post Brexit and "free" from eg. MiFID etc.
Or this could just a false dawn and the FCA will end up being that rule taker. But looking at what's happened in EU and then Swiss stocks perhaps not.
deeply disappointing Scotland vaccine numbers. May have to redo my projection of 1.2million vaccinations per day in Scotland by mid April.
Why are they disappointing? Inefficiencies or because a high percentage of Scots are declining?
That's what we call in North Britain a wee bit o' pawky humour.
I actually heard that phrase used for the first time ever outside of PB yesterday.
Well, used is the wrong word. I was listening to a reading of Very Good Jeeves and the Gentleman's Gentleman referred to the poet Burns as writing 'in the North British dialect'. Quite took me by surprise.
Until 1948 the Pharmaceutical Society had a 'North British' office, in Edinburgh. In then became the Scottish department. It was one of the sites for the Society's Qualifying Examination practical exams.
Boris Johnson will lead a Downing Street press conference on coronavirus on Wednesday afternoon.
FFS what for? what's the point?
He can wibble on about holibobs.
That seems to be today's media fixation.
It is perfectly valid to ask about holidays at home and abroad.
Most people are not like the PB Home Bodies and have families who are desperate to get away, whether that be within the UK or abroad.
Nor do I accept the idea that the government is unable to model the situation in July – they will be doing exactly that.
So the press will ask questions. As they should.
PB older, (white?), male, well-off, large house-living, big garden or grounds-owning, non-tower block-living, best vintage of Ch. l'Evangile-discussing contributors say:
Why does everyone keep banging on about holidays? Being at home is perfectly agreeable.
And yet for many of those tower block living, non-wine swilling folks you talk of, holiday means swapping living in a set of small rooms on the 17th floor of a tower block in Birmingham for a few hours crammed into a plane and then 2 weeks living in a small room in a tower block in Spain.
If you are really concerned about their well being then stop making cheap points about holidays and start making serious points about their access to parks and the countryside without being hassled by the authorities.
Wow. The disdain you have for those tower block living folk really oozes out of you.
So you prescribe long, bracing walks in the countryside instead? I'm sure they are all ears.
No my disdain is reserved for you and your faux concern for those living in tower blocks when you really don't give a sh*t about them except to score political points.
Richard you seem angry (plus ça change - that's french btw).
You were sneering at those people who want to swap "a set of small rooms in Birmingham for a small room in Spain when they should really be going out for long walks in the country." I paraphase.
I hope it makes you feel better to be so dismissive of such people.
No I was sneering at you and your attitude. You really do need to learn the difference. Otherwise all my digs at you become pointless.
And why should I be angry? I have 3 acres of the most glorious snow filled land to wander in. I am loving lockdown.
Well first of all I'm glad you are on the way to realising that your posts are pointless. Every journey of a thousand miles, etc.
Which brings me back to my original point about lockdown. If only all those poor people in tower blocks in Birmingham also had three acres (chortle) they wouldn't have to worry about going to ghastly hotels in Spain. Is your position.
Well I hope you enjoy your three acres as much as you are able.
deeply disappointing Scotland vaccine numbers. May have to redo my projection of 1.2million vaccinations per day in Scotland by mid April.
Why are they disappointing? Inefficiencies or because a high percentage of Scots are declining?
That's what we call in North Britain a wee bit o' pawky humour.
I actually heard that phrase used for the first time ever outside of PB yesterday.
Well, used is the wrong word. I was listening to a reading of Very Good Jeeves and the Gentleman's Gentleman referred to the poet Burns as writing 'in the North British dialect'. Quite took me by surprise.
Until 1948 the Pharmaceutical Society had a 'North British' office, in Edinburgh. In then became the Scottish department. It was one of the sites for the Society's Qualifying Examination practical exams.
There was a fad in the early 19th century for using the expressions North and South Britain. Hence North British Railway, postal addresses such as Edinburegh N.B., and so on, and this is doubtless another example. I believe it dfied out when for some reason the Southern British didn't reciprocate.
@CarlottaVance et al: Who is this David Keating you keep retweeting and why do you do it?
The EU's chief apologist on twitter it seems.
But why? If Angela Merkel or Ursula Von Der Leyen is doing the tweeting, maybe fair enough. I don't keep retweeting one of the stupider apologists for Brexit...
How many £10k fines have been issued and upheld? Piers Corbyn appealed against his and I seemed to remember he got basically let off for "time served" in the back of a paddy wagon.
He got a marzipan or similar one from somewhere IIRC. And now I'm off for an evening's reading, TV and conversation with Mrs C. Plus I expect phone calls with family to ensure that we're well.
Professor Jonathan Van-Tam has claimed it's 'perfectly possible' the UK will be giving coronavirus vaccines to children by the end of the year.
Get those little plague spreaders jabbed....
Not that you are a goer on holidays type but I wonder how vaccine passports will work for families with children. Because this summer the children presumably won't have been jabbed.
Professor Jonathan Van-Tam has claimed it's 'perfectly possible' the UK will be giving coronavirus vaccines to children by the end of the year.
Get those little plague spreaders jabbed....
Vaccinations for children have carried on during lockdown. We had the Y9s in (one at a time) a few weeks ago to get which ever jab they were due under normal circumstances.
Its absolutely absurd to offer equivalence to Aus and NZ but not the UK.
Of course equivalence should be the sane, rational solution but if they don't desire to be sane and rational we can't make them be.
We can however invoke Article 16.
But you have to admit that refusing to talk about SPS alignment looks bloody stupid from the UK side. This really is a classic case of two wrongs not making a right.
No I don't admit that unless SPS alignment is required for equivalence?
Do Aus and NZ have SPS alignment? If not and they still have equivalence then why is it necessary for the UK to be aligned?
Equivalence should be an alternative to alignment.
Because SPS alignment is far more than just veterinary equivalence. So no they don't have SPS alignment. You can find a list of all the countries the EU has such arrangements with here:
@CarlottaVance et al: Who is this David Keating you keep retweeting and why do you do it?
The EU's chief apologist on twitter it seems.
But why? If Angela Merkel or Ursula Von Der Leyen is doing the tweeting, maybe fair enough. I don't keep retweeting one of the stupider apologists for Brexit...
Why not? It's quite amusing the lengths he goes to to claim the EU is doing just as well as the UK.
Yep. There has been literally liquidity flight, along with the dependent firms and that is gone. Until we negotiate something different. But London is always good at innovation so we shall see I'm sure some interesting products.
On the previous thread I mentioned Lord Mandelson's webinar organised by DLA Piper yesterday. He covered the point about regulation of financial services, and was quite nuanced about it. He said that on balance he agreed with the government that a financial centre as important as ours should not be a 'rule-taker' from the EU, and that this would inevitably lead to some loss of EU-sourced business, but he was moderately positive on the possibility of this being compensated for by new opportunities (in Fintech etc). However, this would depend on us getting the regulatory regime right; we needed to be flexible and fast-moving, but should be very careful not to trash the UK's reputation by slapdash regulation. He was also concerned about other things the government is doing which might discourage financial organisations and small, entrepreneurial companies from setting up here.
In other words, there are opportunities in our new non-EU status, but he was concerned that the government wasn't taking a sufficiently joined-up approach to make the most of them.
Mandelson saying we should be, er, nimble? Surely not.....
I don't know why you say that. He's always had a very good understanding of what business needs, and he's very clear-eyed on the problems of the EU.
Israel closest ally of the US? Surely some mistake, aren't we supposed to be special?
Israel was probably Trump's closest ally, certainly under Netanyahu, under Biden it has fallen well down the list, Trudeau's Canada is probably Biden's closest ally (plus Ireland of course)
Its absolutely absurd to offer equivalence to Aus and NZ but not the UK.
Of course equivalence should be the sane, rational solution but if they don't desire to be sane and rational we can't make them be.
We can however invoke Article 16.
But you have to admit that refusing to talk about SPS alignment looks bloody stupid from the UK side. This really is a classic case of two wrongs not making a right.
No I don't admit that unless SPS alignment is required for equivalence?
Do Aus and NZ have SPS alignment? If not and they still have equivalence then why is it necessary for the UK to be aligned?
Equivalence should be an alternative to alignment.
Because SPS alignment is far more than just veterinary equivalence. So no they don't have SPS alignment. You can find a list of all the countries the EU has such arrangements with here:
The UK doesn't want SPS alignment but does want equivalence which is what the EU has with many nations including New Zealand and Australia and it seems from that list Andorra and others.
So why can't the EU deal with the UK on the basis of equivalence instead of alignment?
I know it's the teacher in me, but is there any chance you could change the title of your last graph to "Nation vaccinations fraction of population"? Thinking we have got only 0.2% done is a bit startling.
Its absolutely absurd to offer equivalence to Aus and NZ but not the UK.
Of course equivalence should be the sane, rational solution but if they don't desire to be sane and rational we can't make them be.
We can however invoke Article 16.
But you have to admit that refusing to talk about SPS alignment looks bloody stupid from the UK side. This really is a classic case of two wrongs not making a right.
No I don't admit that unless SPS alignment is required for equivalence?
Do Aus and NZ have SPS alignment? If not and they still have equivalence then why is it necessary for the UK to be aligned?
Equivalence should be an alternative to alignment.
Because SPS alignment is far more than just veterinary equivalence. So no they don't have SPS alignment. You can find a list of all the countries the EU has such arrangements with here:
The UK doesn't want SPS alignment but does want equivalence which is what the EU has with many nations including New Zealand and Australia and it seems from that list Andorra and others.
So why can't the EU deal with the UK on the basis of equivalence instead of alignment?
I suspect because, given what has been said on both sides, we refused to discuss it. Face it, we did not handle the negotiations terribly well.
Edit: oh and the main point here is we SHOULD have been talking about SPS alignment. Given how much we import and export agricultural goods. It was actually an opportunity to improve things from the situation that existed when we were in the EU as that limited our ability to deal with preventing the import of diseased plants. We could have made things better but we have chosen not to and so both sides lose.
He's not actually begging for a call. He's just grandstanding that Biden hasn't called, and hammering the point home that the Democrat party isn't Israel's friend.
I know it's the teacher in me, but is there any chance you could change the title of your last graph to "Nation vaccinations fraction of population"? Thinking we have got only 0.2% done is a bit startling.
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I know it's the teacher in me, but is there any chance you could change the title of your last graph to "Nation vaccinations fraction of population"? Thinking we have got only 0.2% done is a bit startling.
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Israel closest ally of the US? Surely some mistake, aren't we supposed to be special?
Israel was probably Trump's closest ally, certainly under Netanyahu, under Biden it has fallen well down the list, Trudeau's Canada is probably Biden's closest ally (plus Ireland of course)
Hard to dispute Canada is the United States' closest ally. Could be more competition if Alaska wasn't part of the US.
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My wife is a part-time teacher and up until last week she hadn't been into school physically this year. Last week she did go in and she needed to do a lateral flow test the night before she went in and then again a couple of days after she was last in. She had to submit the results online. I suspect a large amount of the testing numbers could be coming from this - testing to ensure safety rather than because of symptoms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koU01Ah_MrY
https://twitter.com/dannydanon/status/1359506734218416133
Why would you do that?
Well, used is the wrong word. I was listening to a reading of Very Good Jeeves and the Gentleman's Gentleman referred to the poet Burns as writing 'in the North British dialect'. Quite took me by surprise.
Absolutely brilliant shift north of the Tweed yesterday.
Kudos.
The sex shop in Bolton was named "Softy's Hard Stuff" in honour. Better than any statue.
In particular, like how they stick a stick of chocolate into your soft ice cream cone!!
https://twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1359534949859274753?s=20
Also I think the Israelis are bricking it over this.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/icc-war-crimes-israel-gaza-palestinian-b1798833.html
Fantastic!
Less than optimal.
However, vaccines do.....
Target 15,000,000
Thru 13,058,480
Required 1,941,520
Days to target 5
Yesterday’s return 411,812
Required rate 388,304 (↓ from 392,252 yesterday)
May you continue to be clear.
11:24 on refers.
In other words, there are opportunities in our new non-EU status, but he was concerned that the government wasn't taking a sufficiently joined-up approach to make the most of them.
Do Aus and NZ have SPS alignment? If not and they still have equivalence then why is it necessary for the UK to be aligned?
Equivalence should be an alternative to alignment.
Edit: sorry, I mean exponent less than unity.
If it has a bumper weekend, it could smash the target.
And why should I be angry? I have 3 acres of the most glorious snow filled land to wander in. I am loving lockdown.
Labour should consider replacing Starmer with Drakeford.
Or this could just a false dawn and the FCA will end up being that rule taker. But looking at what's happened in EU and then Swiss stocks perhaps not.
https://twitter.com/cricketwyvern/status/1358778749576183808/photo/1
Which brings me back to my original point about lockdown. If only all those poor people in tower blocks in Birmingham also had three acres (chortle) they wouldn't have to worry about going to ghastly hotels in Spain. Is your position.
Well I hope you enjoy your three acres as much as you are able.
Get those little plague spreaders jabbed....
Should be nice and simple to give an approved Covid vaccine to kids in a school-based rollout.
#68 - a monkey wrench......
(The real reason is apparently that there were 99 members of the elite Nepolitan guard around the king. So that is why "99" is the very best...)
https://ec.europa.eu/food/safety/international_affairs/trade/agreements_en
I used to think it was because it was 99p and when it went above 99p for a 99 was quite jarring.
There are theoretical reasons for a longer gap to work fine for Pfizer, but not from trials. We should know the answer in a month or so.
What's going on there?
The UK doesn't want SPS alignment but does want equivalence which is what the EU has with many nations including New Zealand and Australia and it seems from that list Andorra and others.
So why can't the EU deal with the UK on the basis of equivalence instead of alignment?
Edit: oh and the main point here is we SHOULD have been talking about SPS alignment. Given how much we import and export agricultural goods. It was actually an opportunity to improve things from the situation that existed when we were in the EU as that limited our ability to deal with preventing the import of diseased plants. We could have made things better but we have chosen not to and so both sides lose.
I Must Use Proper Units On My Graphs
I Must Use Proper Units On My Graphs
I Must Use Proper Units On My Graphs
etc
That's what I meant about the cases almost dropping too much yesterday.