I'd cut the government and NHS some slack on this - getting 70 million people in the right order at short notice can't be easy. I think they are prioritising (1) people IN hospital already … (View Post)

Can't help feeling this is getting like the times when churches seemed to think about nothing but sexual issues - married priests, gay priests, divorced priests, etc etc. I'm sure it's… (View Post)

Yes, I lived in a one-bed flat in a pleasant estate in Nottingham and paid £500/month. When I moved south for my job I got an almost identical flat where I live now. It's £1000/month. I shopped … (View Post)

That's true - though it's still generally a bad idea, and virtually everyone I know is now planning to avoid it, including people who had planned family get-togethers: they are all being ca… (View Post)

Well, as someone who's lived in 4 European countries and is very familiar with half a dozen more, I do think we're broadly the same culture, and distinctively different from e.g. US culture… (View Post)