They probably wouldn't do it explicitly permanently: it would be waiting to beat a variant, then waiting to vaccinate kids, then another variant must come along so we need boosters then another … (View Post)

No you simply can't tell that from the chart because it is a snapshot, not a time series. It does not show how things have changed over time. Ten years ago, it could have been that fewer Germans… (View Post)

It's a completely bizarre argument, except, as you note, by age. It's not like voting rights in the American South in the 1950s - that was actual discrimination. In this case, regardless of… (View Post)

That is what happens when you give governments totally unnecessary emergency powers. They feel obliged to use them to the maximum they can get away with. (View Post)

The best thing about living in the Barbican is you don't have the Barbican destroying your view. It's a horrific place to look at. Four stunningly ugly browney-grey concrete eyesores blight… (View Post)