Your figure is an accurate, but completely useless, estimate of the upper bound for the IHR. Upper bound, because it cannot possibly be any higher, and there are clear and convincing reasons (reinfec… (View Post)

It's not "not important", but it is important to make clear how much of the recent rise in daily admissions and numbers in hospital is specifically due to Covid (which places strain on the … (View Post)

Amusing, but missing the point. Which is that there aren't: a) lots of kings with three daughters watching films who don't ever see themselves represented on screen; or b) lots of actors who are also… (View Post)

I remember seeing Emily Thornberry on (I think) Question Time, insisting on calling him SY-L, a few months after forcing Johnson to apologise for referring to her as "Lady Nugee" in the Com… (View Post)

The broader point about left wing hypocrisy is well-made, but I don't think it's actually valid in this case: it ties into the idea of "lived experience" which is very much in fashion with … (View Post)