Robert's quite right to remind us of the very significant silver linings that the pandemic brings with it. Like the world wars or the space race, decades of investment and research have been condense… (View Post)

I know what you mean. You've also made me miss those crepes, which I first had back when I was literally in short trousers. (View Post)

It's remarkable how all these successive waves of psychological affect have kept sweeping the nation since the pandemic started, shifting people's moods en masse in one direction or another in not en… (View Post)

But it is congruent with Labour's strategy to date, namely to lay every casualty of the pandemic at Boris' door. So if they now call for a national reopening before it's absolutely and perfectly safe… (View Post)

Agreed, there's something crass about it. What's wrong with 'inoculated'? Hell yeah to the main news though. The new target seems to assume no increase - indeed a decrease - in the supply available f… (View Post)