At Dakar, the British battleships WERE on the high seas and fired on there even if the Richelieu was in harbour. Likewise at Mers-el-Kebir. (View Post)

For starters, I would settle for actually doing something about arrivals rather than just talking about plans to do something for weeks on end. Once again we're behind the curve. (View Post)

No-one in the group for 1,000 who got the AZ vaccine suffered a severe case and/or was hospitalised or died, although they haven't yet reached conclusions yet on just how effective it is in preventin… (View Post)

I think you're letting them off too likely for the decisions made that contributed to the scale of the first wave in the UK. There really were an awful lot of calls that they got badly wrong. Nonethe… (View Post)

Thanks. Following your prompting, I came across this on Bellingcat, published on Jan 5th. So it was in plain sight to all what was going to happen on the 6th, down even to the gallows. The only bit t… (View Post)