Good news. Robin Hanbury-Tenison is speaking and recuperating. ‘Now I can believe I’m alive.’ https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-joy-of-hearing-my-father-s-voice-again (View Post)

c.f. "To Serve Them All My Days" by R.F. Dangerfield, with good tv adaptation by Andrew Davies in the 1980s. (View Post)

Coming out of the virus-induced slump will involve some "scarring to the economy" according to the OBR. This eye-catching phrase implies that we will not return to the status quo ante. Part… (View Post)

Thanks for the brilliant moth pictures. (View Post)

If this is the peak when we haven't yet reached NHS capacity then the policy to lower and extend the peak has worked. (View Post)