When do we reckon the British media is going to switch from demanding the government get refugees out to demanding they stop them coming in? Around November/December, I guess? (View Post)

I mean, the whole enterprise was fucked from the get go? What's the part where you're thinking, "it would have gone smoothly if they'd done x, why on earth didn't they do x?&… (View Post)

Global vaccine production is limited, not all countries could get enough of it to have vaccinated 60% by now. Generally speaking the order it's happening in is a combination of wealth and desper… (View Post)

The number that matters to Americans is the number of dead Americans, which currently seems to be zero, amazingly. The papers running on chaos obviously isn't helpful to the president but the 20… (View Post)

Yup, and this is against a background of almost universal press hostility. They also can't really brag about the successes of the evacuation yet: For example they seem to have evacuated American… (View Post)