I'm not sure there is anything particularly clever about it. The Tories could get a junior SPAD to keep an eye open for things trending on Twitter, when the SPAD finds something the government c… (View Post)

I was thinking the other day "I wonder how close SARS and MERS came to catastrophe?" I suspect that if someone in early 2019 had pointed to those diseases as reasons to spend billions of po… (View Post)

Why aren't they using the IATA or ICAO proposals? If the EU does its own thing, people will need an additional vaccine passport for travel outside of the EU. (View Post)

Who could have guessed that the Archbishop of Canterbury knows what he is doing, takes marriage very seriously, and is scrupulous about obeying the law? I think I may have said at the time that if We… (View Post)

Actually a couple of months ago the Russian statistical authority did more or less say "All those other excess deaths? COVID-19." It's not quite the Kremlin, but at least some parts of… (View Post)