Because if you look after the deficit, the debt will look after itself. If you don't look after the deficit, you can do very little to control the debt. (View Post)

There or thereabouts, yes. It looks like about 15 days to halve (8th to 23rd April). IF that continues, we'd be at a quarter of the peak by VE Day. And an eighth of the peak by the end of the fi… (View Post)

I think quite a few people seem to be confusing “recognises the need for and supports the lockdown as the best route forward for now” with “supports the lockdown because for some reason they like it”… (View Post)

No vaccine for a human coronavirus has ever been seriously pursued for long enough to get one. We discovered them in the Sixties, and for a long time, only the four that pop up in the suite of 200+ v… (View Post)

I've been using 5 days, on the principle that that's the average incubation period between infection and symptoms. Hopefully, symptomatic people should isolate themselves, so the infections… (View Post)