It's a basic error in one of the figures being used to track progress - all-settings deaths with COVID. At the beginning of the pandemic it would have made very little difference. However now there a… (View Post)

Patrick Vallance was on Civil Service Live this week. he reckoned, with the benefit of hindsight, that completely closing the borders would have been effective, if done in *early February*. In fact h… (View Post)

My over-75 mates seem to spend a lot of time in the pub (and not just Wetherspoons) so I dare say they can afford it. About 35 pints at Hampshire prices. Obviously the money would be better spent on … (View Post)

On the contrary, I've read a lot. Why shouldn't we be a federal nation comprising four countries with similar statuses? Instead we have asymmetric devolution: three small countries all with different… (View Post)

I have sometimes thought that declaring English independence would be a good move. It certainly makes Northern Ireland someone else's problem. (View Post)