Yes, the toxicity arises out of he fact that at the same time people were all being required to make very real sacrifices. But those sacrifices went far beyond just being told not to socialise, and w… (View Post)

Get vaccinated. Get boosters as often as required. Incentivise such behaviour by small financial rewards to those who do the right thing, and significant financial sticks and meaningful restrictions … (View Post)

Indeed and a reminder also that scenarios can change over a very short period, the interval being just one month in that example. There is an awful lot of economic pain to come during the first half … (View Post)

Clearly, unlike me, you have never tried to canvass streets made up largely of HMOs and bedsits, only to discover that half the flats had no-one at all registered at those addresses (and that when so… (View Post)

Is it too much to ask that, in the midst of the most serious public health crisis of our lifetimes, the policies adopted by the Government might be actually determined by a balanced assessment of the… (View Post)