I think the first second jabs were actually given yesterday. But say it's 7%. 105% of hospital capacity is a disaster. 98% is fine. (View Post)

Under the current strategy "front line heath and social care workers" are Priority 2 along with the over-80s. My friend who is an A&E consultant had hers on the first day. (View Post)

Welsh is a bit of an anachronism here. The entire population of Great Britain south of the Forth seems to have spoken a language ancestral to to modern Welsh, Cornish and Breton. And the Picts probab… (View Post)

The Scots had contacts with Ireland because that was where they came from (The Kingdom of Dalriada covered both Ulster and Argyll at one point). The fact that we know very little about the Picts prob… (View Post)

Unfortunately holiday reporting effects are unlikely to give us usable stats until at least this time next week, so the government is going to have to make decisions in the absence of them. (View Post)