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Freedom Day with the PM and Chancellor self-isolating doesn’t send out the planned message – politic
Freedom Day with the PM and Chancellor self-isolating doesn’t send out the planned message – politicalbetting.com
For months it seems we have been hearing from ministers about July 19th which has been dubbed Freedom Day to mark the end of the COVID restrictions. This was going to be a big moment for Johnsson and his team and a time to celebrate yet again the success of their vaccination programme.
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A pop-up vaccination centre is in our village today, and I was glad to see long queues outside it when I passed, two hours apart.
We also had a lady just knock on our door and ask if we'd been vaccinated; they're going around trying to get people out. First time I'd heard of this happening, and I think it's brilliant.
edit: and first.
It's the knocker-up that I really liked - actively going around asking people. Even though we've both been double-vaxed, it made me feel really, really happy about humanity.
I saw a piece that showed the ordering apps to be quite popular with customers, and the landlords rather like them too. It seems that customers are much less price sensitive on apps.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9799703/Olympics-hit-Covid-chaos-two-athletes-test-positive-Olympic-Village.html
The whole "crowds" thing is so old hat - most people want comfortable, congenial and civilised (well, I do and I'm "most people" having discovered I'm in a majority last evening)..
It looks like we'll get to about half the adults in Newham vaccinated.
They did one thing right and that was thanks to an outside venture capitalist.
Everything else has been one cock-up after another.
1. The ATP and WTA tours and UEFA have all been functioning internationally throughout the pandemic, and consequently have well-developed bubble systems
2. They were also lucky - if a larger Covid outbreak had taken out one of the teams in the Euros, or self-isolation had knocked out the likes of Ash Barty and Novak Djokovic (and not just poor unlucky Jo Konta,) then the headlines would've been rather different
The Olympic Games are a vastly larger and more complex jamboree than either of these, and involve mass importation of large numbers of athletes from all over the world at once. So yes, I'd be astonished if they didn't get through it without at least some of the events being ruined by Covid, and the possibility of the whole thing being brought down by a pingdemic shouldn't be wholly discounted.
But somehow we all know that he isn’t.
https://twitter.com/IanDunt/status/1416742141456490506
He's a shit and his Government is a shitshow.
The wine is vastly superior, you nibble summer fruits and cheese, the sun beats down, it is bliss. Who needs a pub?
I can't keep up with what's expected of us . Sometimes---almost always actually---I'm glad I don't have a smart 'phone. I hasten to add that I do give my 'phone & details when requested. My mob cost £4.99 and does what I need. The way "progress" goes I expect that when it wears out I'll have to buy something with all kinds of unnecessary functions. And pay more.
Nowhere near the same level of car ownership in these parts - more likely to free up space on the buses and tubes.
Not vaccinating under-18's is the stupidest decision.
Foxy said:
' Ultimately though it was the Labour Paty selectorate that chose Corbyn, by a fairly clear margin. I think that there was a real desire to see the end of the tired veterans of New Labour, particularly Burnham and Cooper. A mistake perhaps but hard to see them doing better next time. It will be a new generation untainted by past mistakes in government that will have the leadership from now on.'
The context is important here. Corbyn did not actually want to win the leadership election in 2015 - and had no expectation initially of doing better than a respectable third place behind Cooper & Burnham. The dynamics of the contest changed massively when Harman forced the Shadow Cabinet to abstain on Osborne's Welfare Reform proposals. This caused outrage throughout the wider membership - and left Corbyn as the only candidate who ended up voting against them! Burnham and Cooper ought to have stepped down from the Shadow Cabinet to free themselves up to do likewise. Nevertheless , Harriet Harman does have a lot to answer for . I hope it weighs heavily on her conscience.
The child decision will obviously affect that overall total.
I'm not up to date on London Boroughs.
UK will overtake Israel next week.
Removing them is going to make very little difference.
Edit - although as I write that, the shouty lady at the front has just had a clamp down.
The clue is those over 100% vaccination rates for some age cohorts in those pleasantly rural Home Counties areas.
"Classified details of army’s Challenger tank leaked via video game"
"Classified details of the British Army’s main battle tank, Challenger 2, have been leaked online after a player in a tank battle video game disputed its accuracy.
The player, who claimed to have been a real life Challenger 2 tank commander and gunnery instructor, disputed the design of the tank in the popular combat video game “War Thunder”, arguing it needed changing. He claimed game designers had failed to “model it properly”.
To support his argument the player posted pages from the official Challenger 2 Army Equipment Support Publication – a manual and maintenance guide."
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jul/18/classified-details-of-armys-challenger-tank-leaked-via-video-game
Why do they keep voting for him is a reasonable question.
Tapping your card takes seconds, the expenditure is shown in your bank account, everyone is happier, apart from people who like to avoid the Revenue
Just before the world collapsed, and we all got excited about trips to Lowestoft, instead
It is poignant, and painful
At the same pub 6 weeks ago it was table service for everything.
Some arguments go way over your head - and you don't even realise, because you are busy reacting emotionally/politically
There. You can have that psychoanalysis for free. I normally charge
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Samuel Smiths pubs have banned people from using phones, in an attempt to foster "social conversations".
Various pubs across the country have been sent a memo making clear that people should not be allowed to use their phones or chat in the bar, and that if they wish to they should be directed outside in the same way as if they were smoking.
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/sam-smiths-samuel-pub-ban-phone-rules-swearing-a8846316.html
It might have been a publicity stunt but Sam Smiths pubs are somewhat odd in various ways. Was rather surprised about the cash bit myself but I can confirm that its true.
https://www.standard.co.uk/reveller/bars/the-15-best-sam-smith-s-pubs-in-london-ranked-a3954501.html
Good beer and good value traditional pubs. I have been to The John Snow in Soho, named for the pioneering Doctor who discovered the cause of a cholera outbreak. He wouldn't approve though, as he was a teetotaller!
'Freedom Day is tomorrow. Save over 85% now.'
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Louise,_Holborn
Used to be our after work pub before we left for Ducklands.
Eastern Europe winter plus low vaccinations plus Delta (or a worse variant) will not be a good combination.
That link points out that Orwell drank there, but it fails to tell the big story. It is just about conceivable that Lenin, Stalin and Hitler drank there ALL AT THE SAME TIME
It is near certain that Lenin and Stalin drank there, Charlotte Street was home to the Communist Party HQ and was a haunt of radicals. The Hitler connection depends on a putative visit Hitler made to his brother before the Great War, who was living on nearby Percy Street
Brilliantly just down from Hitler's brother's flat is the flat where Orwell lived, which he used as inspiration for the apartment in 1984
London, huh
I know the Snow. It has a part in my history. My 1st wife was in advertising and we used to meet up there after work.
In 2021, Labour is just unpopular and weak - but any dividend from junking Corbyn appears to have been cancelled out by the vaccines.
Still, there's plenty of time for things to change.
Heard both the outs 5 seconds before the same cheer on BBC One.
It's the 'cash only' aspect that I haven't come across.
BREAKING Eight members of Team GB have been identified as close contacts of someone (non British) who tested positive for COVID on a flight into Japan - six athletes and two staff members on the athletics team. #Tokyo2020
https://twitter.com/TomSkyNews/status/1416754990643769348
Finn's rationalisation as I understood it is that children don't get covid as much as adults do, are much less likely to get ill, and are also less likely to pass it on to others. It's seems the JCVI think vaccinating adults is still a better use of resources, particularly young adults, and then probably to move on to boosters.
Finn's a professor of paediatrics in case that matters to anyone thinking "what does he know?"
Interesting anecdotal - I heard that if you worked there you were banned from ever returning after you have left.
The £2 pints of beer that get people through the door are pretty weak from experience; most people quickly upgrade to their wheat beer.