Probably fewer than those who died of C-19 after the 28 day cut off. That's why excess deaths are the figure to use. (View Post)

In my experience (mostly in classrooms) any attempt at sarcasm will be taken at face value by a significant portion of the audience: 90% in the case of Y9 (the other 10% not having heard it) down to … (View Post)

PR would be a much easier thing to sell if the proponents of it didn’t seem to have “keeping the Tories out of power for ever” as their main reason for supporting it. And I know that there are many P… (View Post)

If we stopped people commenting on things they don’t understand most threads would be about a tenth of their normal length. Anyway no one really understands Northern Irish politics; it’s the Schleswi… (View Post)

I’m in that category, but I preempted the GP’s phone call by putting my NHS number and DoB into the website: that resulted in my being given a range of options, sorted by distance from where I live. … (View Post)