I hear from someone in a position to know that the whole tests regime was designed to nudge people to do exactly that. Fingerprints of Hancock and Patel all over it. (View Post)

Also as a sign of the health of freedom of speech, like a canary in a coal mine. (View Post)

I hope you're right, but not everybody is vaccinated and vaccines aren't 100% effective. Anyway, it's not true that the Kent variant was incubated "in times and places of colossal… (View Post)

But I thought it only spread in countries where the Prime Minister delayed quarantining Indians to get a trade deal? Surely you're not saying it was inevitable that it would spread everywhere th… (View Post)

The only surprise is that anybody thought they were any good at managing crises in the first place, given their past disasters, from Bosnia to the euro. (View Post)