2005 was the year they did the Not Quite Debates. I remember Howard saying to the effect that even if he knew then what he knew now wrt to WMD, he would still have voted for the Iraq War. At which po… (View Post)

Apologies to Chameleon, I was triggered by the tirade anyone normally gets here when they raise this issue. Yes it’s fascinating and quite hard to call which way it will go from here. (View Post)

There’s only two ways through as far as I see it. Option 1) you reach herd immunity and the pandemic ends. Option 2) you keep some combination of internal and border restrictions more or less indefin… (View Post)

Vaccine penetration in the 40s is topping out at a disappointing level. Using ONS data, barely any movement week on week for the 45-49s at 82.6% vs 80.7% the week prior. Meanwhile for 40-44s, 82.3% v… (View Post)

The whole world should have stopped flights from China when the videos were going around of welded building doors, tanks in the streets and armed hazmat suit snatch squads. But everyone was too afrai… (View Post)