The plateau was the explicit proximate policy target ("flatten the curve, save the nhs"). (View Post)

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)