On reflection last night's press conference was a terrible mistake for Johnson personally. Before that point, the story was about a government advisor. As is typical with similar stories, the go… (View Post)

I agree. It's "I've not been able to do X, Y, Z for 2 months, and he thinks he's above the rules?" that will be deadly for Cummings. The outrage will cut across the political… (View Post)

On the wider impact on Covid 19 on the death rate (including those in the community and of poorer treatment of unrelated diseases), the ONS's dataset here is very helpful to complete some simple… (View Post)

It's been discussed that it takes around 2 weeks for a lock down to feed through into reduced cases and then deaths, hence certain parts of Italy hopefully being in the process of peaking. In th… (View Post)

I've been very concerned by the virus growth since mid January, but I fear that wider panic is setting in too early and too suddenly. Governments across Europe seem to be closing down their econ… (View Post)