The biggest problem with the first lockdown is that it normalised general restrictions, and apparently made it impossible for the government to change tack once their assumptions - notably, that the … (View Post)

. His career is over anyway. I thought that he was the only person who didn't realise that, but perhaps not. (View Post)

It comes from the Sale of Goods Act 1979 (if not earlier), but I believe Reid was the first one to transfer it to the political/bureaucratic organisation sphere. (View Post)

Given that "institutional racism" is often used to mean "when nobody is actually racist but outcomes are different for different racial groups" then I can understand why there… (View Post)

I used the "support bubble" rules to see my mum at Christmas 2020. Probably not within the spirit of the rules, but it was within the letter of them. The difference is, I wasn't the on… (View Post)