I went through a long phase of hating his smug face. Recently he'd been warming on me, but this is not his finest hour. (View Post)

Their cumulative deaths per million are at 1,812 to our 2,110 - they're lower, but substantial is being a bit generous. Germany is substantially less, the Czechs are substantially more. France is in … (View Post)

How would the Macron treatment have worked any better in the UK than in France? I wouldn't want to swap places with them right now, even leaving aside that the French response to coersion seems to ha… (View Post)

We pay interest on debt which could be repaid with the proceeds of selling a non strategic asset the state has no business owning, but granted that's a side point. (View Post)

Week on week case rise today seems to more or less the same size as last week's data issue that shifted cases to Thursday- so grounds for optimism that tomorrow will show a fall, albeit artificial, a… (View Post)