Is it dystopian to encourage people to wear a shirt - cultural norms and societal expectations mean we almost always do wear a shirt, but it is sometimes so warm in my office I'd like to derobe.… (View Post)

My position is not that we need permanent lockdown - but there are so many things that we dropped that the government could have pushed as a new normal. Masking, testing, clear outlines for sick leav… (View Post)

But hasn't the opposite been shown? That those most in favour of lockdowns - the young, the precarious and the like - also had the worst experience of lockdown. They just understood that the sac… (View Post)

So I only just had it this summer after 3 jabs - the illness itself was a bad flu, I was bedbound for a few days with a high temp, and didn't actually have much in the way of bad lung stuff. Pro… (View Post)

Farage and his parties benefit from PR systems - I don't know how well Reform or any new vehicle would do in FPTP. This is why I think Tories going down to 15-20% in a GE would probably lead to … (View Post)