Partly I think the difference is that PB is almost as bipolar as Leon - we are always either whooping or despairing, and "Hmm, what comes next?" is usually the right line to take with Covid… (View Post)

In that situation you are carrying a not yet fully understood disease with an intense propensity to spread. You want to go out and do whatever you like because you're bored at home (perhpas you … (View Post)

Interesting comments, but focusing on the last one - when I was PPS in Defra, I was surprised to discover that it was long-established Government policy by both parties to rule out any attempt at foo… (View Post)

I've been catching up with Alastair Meeks' columns, notably the current one on Johnson's successor. Bewilderingly he seems to have only 7 followers. I suggest that most people here wou… (View Post)

Yeah. We're coming at this from a situation of acute public health crisis, so it looks great by comparison - it IS great by comparison. But if we normally had an epidemic of anything - even flu … (View Post)