It's amazing that someone who in the past often sounded so sensible can have gone so absolutely bonkers. (View Post)

The suggestion that the Republicans are only acting out of a genuine concern of widespread Democrat voter fraud made me laugh. The thinking seems to go: "Democrats are going to commit fraud, the… (View Post)

It's just madness. A huge number of those will have zero impact on containing spread of the virus. It's the Government just not wanting to pick winners and losers. (View Post)

The worst bit of Johnson's press conference was when he started going on about the Tier system that had been implemented as an alternative to the circuit breaker and how they hoped it would work… (View Post)

Related to this of course is this conflation of the "Tier system" and the "local approach". Currently large parts of the country are in Tier 1. A substantial part is in Tier 2. A … (View Post)