Yes, that's right - and the reason Truss will go long rather than call a snap election. "Inflation was up to 18% when I took over and it's now down to less than a third, now let me fin… (View Post)

I think you've slightly misunderstood my post. The point I was making was that Bart's simple comparison of lives lost with lockdown on a 1 year=1 year basis was dependent on the relative we… (View Post)

OK, this is all getting a bit heated. We actually all agree (I think) that: 1. For some people (M%), lockdown was absolute hell, and it damaged schooling in particular as well as in many cases having… (View Post)

But we have a perfectly functioning government to take all these decisions, don't we? They're working on them right now in Downi...er, Kyiv. (View Post)

Yes, we all have different ideas on what's obvious, essential knowledge. Unless there's interesting context, the knowledge doesn't stick anyway. I had little recollection about geograp… (View Post)