Today the CMO and CSA were making the point that even if one dose is not as effective as two, and no vaccine is 100% effective, the key aim of our current approach is to limit serious illness and dea… (View Post)

Even thinking about a tax on second-home owners will send the Telegraph apoplectic. Personally I suspect we are going to need to seriously rethink the whole taxation business, because it is abundantl… (View Post)

We live in a country where people got irrationally angry about the "pasty tax", and get angry about taxes on booze, fags, fat taxes, petrol etc. Even though taxing the hell out of these thi… (View Post)

It really is striking how much of the media is essentially innumerate and scientifically illiterate. I have had it up to here listening to the brieings, and hearing political correspondents questioni… (View Post)

It's bonkers, but even more annoying in my opinion is all the talk in the media of there being a "postcode lottery". People do not seem to be able to grasp that different parts of the … (View Post)