Because the government deliberately went out to terrify people at the start of the pandemic over a disease with a 0.3% mortality rate. And it succeeded so well that opinion polls showed that Britons … (View Post)

Even if it was, we simply cannot suspend normal life any longer. It's been far too long as it is. We'd have to learn to live with an endemic virus and manage it as best we can. (View Post)

"The major fact needs to be repeated that in terms of hospitalisations the pandemic has just about been stopped" I think that more important is that there is no prospect of hospitals collap… (View Post)

"Wider Still and Wider shall thy bounds be set ..." isn't very woke in this age of anti-colonialism. I don't care, but others probably would. (View Post)

It is ironic that "Britons Never Shall be Slaves", which in the 19th century was somtimes used by radical movements against slavery and for workers' rights, is now regarded as unforgiv… (View Post)