Just gradually catching up on the press conference - I'm a little behind and being distracted by other things anyway. Just heard Johnson wriggling like an eel in response to Beth Rigby's straightforw… (View Post)

I suppose I wasn't being entirely serious. I am just deeply cynical about devolution and the tensions that it has created or exacerbated. What we already know from Scotland, because we have the evide… (View Post)

I suppose if the still-terrified really need additional reassurance then we could introduce a system for issuing paper vaccine certs for use on a voluntary basis. The theory works as follows: 1. Thes… (View Post)

This is the juncture at which we must remind ourselves that the original and *only* justification for restrictions was to forestall the collapse of the healthcare system. Once that threat is eliminat… (View Post)

Quite. We are soon going to get to the point, if we haven't already, where there is more likelihood of picking up norovirus than Covid in any public place, because some people are so bad at washing t… (View Post)