I'm always in favour of learning lessons to improve future decision making. In a highly blame-oriented 'gotcha' political environment like ours that's difficult, to say the least.… (View Post)

Thank you; as you will have guessed I only had time to skim the header very quickly. Thank you too for the time & effort you put into these headers. They are always thought-provoking. @Sandpit re… (View Post)

We don't need to offer the RoI any vaccines, which might cause problems with (or for) the EU and would risk appearing patronising. All we need to do is to vaccinate everyone in NI and then keep … (View Post)

Messrs Johnson and Gove are making their political capital by remaining cool, calm, collected, professional and adult. Random plebs on a message board might be ecstatic, but they aren't the ones… (View Post)

Look at what the WHO spokeswoman is saying. Considering our contributions to COVAX how come they going further still? It is common for those who want donations to press already generous donors harder… (View Post)