I think Labour will ultimately drop this policy or amend it dramatically. Reasons are in my mind as follows. 1. It upsets a few people a lot but the majority dont really care 2. It breaks EC law (kid… (View Post)

On the stories EU procurement is a red herring. On ventilators we have more than we will ever need. The focus on a local supplier Penlon made a lot of sense. Lock down was slow by a few days. Chelten… (View Post)

Was chatting to a colleague working as doctor at Exeter. They have no more than 30 COVID patients in ICU and almost no one else in the hospital. The SW area has been mostly free of COVID cases. At so… (View Post)

Looking at the data there are two critical government actions that have made a difference. The date the lockdown was stated and the amount of testing performed. On the first criteria the UK was about… (View Post)

Well yes - but it means looking to Italy/Spain to indicate when things might really start getting restrictive in this country may not be very reliable. There was clearly a problem in Italy as we saw … (View Post)