The public, or a great many of them, are irrational. If you told them that having a mask nailed permanently to their faces would save them from Covid then a lot of them would be thrilled and grateful… (View Post)

1. You are naive 2. The businesses (or a great many of them, at least) don't want these measures 3. They are provably unnecessary for their alleged purpose (View Post)

Are you completely mad? What's so special about Covid? It is being used as an excuse for the Government to gather unto itself whatever power it pleases. If you accept a permanent national security su… (View Post)

So, we must all go on the ID card database because the f-ing idiots who choose to put their entire lives on Facebook already share everything? What a compelling argument. (View Post)

To be fair, there is something of a difference between dissenting from Osbornomics and splashing around £350bn on the temporary nationalisation of large tracts of the economy. (View Post)