My personal experience is that north London schools are beginning to lose control. Not calamitous yet, but it is ominous, and I fear they will shut eventually. I pray, daily, that I am wrong. (View Post)

I reckon they will stay in place until 2021 (View Post)

Yes. Experience shows that these lockdowns get extended, and extended. The Scottish govt probably knows that they may need these rules in place for many weeks, but can't admit it as too many Glaswegi… (View Post)

Exactly right. And of course we do not have a vaccine yet and we may not have a good one ever, or for a long time. Which then presents NZ with a painful existential choice. Open up again to save the … (View Post)

An entire British autumn and winter without pubs, restaurants, society, parties, theatres, anything. It's..... dystopian. I'd literally prefer it if we were at war. At least that would be dramatic. T… (View Post)