Mauritius is a lovely country, peaceful, prosperous, comfortably multicultural, democratic and full of free enterprise. Indeed you could make a case for it as the most successful African economy sinc… (View Post)

It shows why Sunak went for an early election. He could still have been in Number 10 if he had waited until the bitter end. He could see that there were a whole bunch of chickens coming home to roost. (View Post)

The second lockdown was for the Delta variant, which was quite dangerous. At the end of Jan 2021 we were having several thousand deaths per day, and rolling out vaccinations. Omicron was much later i… (View Post)

I think a lot of the events between March 2020 and Jan 2022 get conflated as lockdown, without distinction as to the level of restrictions. The second lockdown of Jan to March 2021 had the peak death… (View Post)

Yep, Mrs Foxy and I were working in ICU in Jan and Feb 2021. The mortality was 50%, and no one over 65 got admitted. We had 53 patients in an 18 bedded unit at one point. It was horrible. I would hav… (View Post)