Interesting combination of policy choices in Germany at the moment. Apparently, their healthcare authorities are getting panicky about exponential case growth, tidal waves of patients swamping hospit… (View Post)

It is mildly encouraging that we're now nearly two weeks on from the schools reopening and the week-on-week comparison for cases still shows a modest decline rather than a rise. The proportionate dec… (View Post)

Never mind that, of course ministers are going to want to be seen taking the Oxford vaccine, because they doubtless feel it needs talking up. Pfizer isn't the one that's had its reputation trashed by… (View Post)

That's inevitable. The supply comes from abroad and therefore cannot be relied upon. They have to assume that it could be cut off at any moment. (View Post)

They will then, of course, lose the election, and Scottish politics will go on exactly as it did before recent controversies blew up. Four more years of nationalists complaining about how hard done b… (View Post)