Al-Qaeda was based in Sudan when the larger Bojinka* plot was being prepared. It would be nice to think we just had to hold one bit of territory to thwart them, but it's total nonsense. * Based … (View Post)

Starmer's not had a good summer. I don't particularly mind him, but I'm starting to think he might also be a bit rubbish. (View Post)

I think that perhaps they are able to do their job because the data comes out quite a lot later, so by the time they say 'it was really four times that' the pandemic has already moved on. T… (View Post)

The thing about Russia is that even though the health authorities put out some fairly dubious stats the Russian statistical authority is reporting excess deaths and attributing them to covid. So unle… (View Post)

Besides that wasn't there some polling that showed that people want vaccine passports for hospitality? i.e. Give the customers what they want. (View Post)