Are the same number of tests being taken and/or reported? I relish the demise of Covid as much as anyone but I've never been sure what to make of test statistics because the scale and sampling m… (View Post)

Has it reached Hobart yet? The draw is 130 on BF. (View Post)

Alexander Pope, apparently. Doubtless WRM was familiar with his oeuvre, much as Harold Macmillan enjoyed nothing better after lunch than to curl up with a Trollope. (Old TW3 joke. You have to imagine… (View Post)

JRM is, of course, a sad example of downward social mobility which can overtake even the most exalted families. His father was a distinguished journalist and editor who rose to the top of his profess… (View Post)

If there's to be a VoC every member of the cabinet will either declare for Boris (with reasons) or resign. If a potential successor resigns they will either be strengthened or cast into outer da… (View Post)