We haven't had a third wave yet. We had a brief suppression in the second, ongoing, wave in November due to the short tightening of restrictions but that's all. (View Post)

It wouldn't need to be retrospective as long as it only applied to future referendums. But it's not a good idea anyway. All referendums need their own legislation so that could just amend t… (View Post)

Good article from Alastair (and apologies if this point has already been made - I've not had time to read the comments), but I don't think it's quite as simple as he says. Firstly, if … (View Post)

It's necessary. The daily death toll has just become a set of numbers which wash over people. Putting some faces on what Covid actually means knocks a bit of reality back into those parts of the… (View Post)

There is nothing intrinsically wrong with a short-cut. In this case, it's true: the normal approval process was short-cut - for example, by running different non-dependent stages in parallel. Do… (View Post)