It was never much of a lockdown compared to other places. A couple we know in a small flat in Spain have the misfortune to live 20 metres from a crappy food shop. So once a day for six weeks one of t… (View Post)

Cummings will end up sitting under an ATM with a dog on a string, begging for loose change. For the first time in his life he'll be appropriately dressed. (View Post)

Should the government be chasing approval ratings or should they be following scientific advice? Or, maybe, somewhere in between, they recognise that it would be impossible to implement science-based… (View Post)

And Blair's Labour Party, in their customary high-mindedness, demonised Michael Howard as Shylock. "Personal attacks like this have to have an element of truth in them that chimes with publ… (View Post)

Reminds me of an incident on the Today programme when a correspondent in Siberia was reporting on a cold snap. "It's minus forty here," he gushed. "Centigrade or Fahrenheit?"… (View Post)