It's about 0.5m deaths a year in the UK. And if it got as bad as ~1m UK deaths from this virus, I should imagine that *very many* of those 0.5m "regular" deaths would now be "from… (View Post)

I've got a great idea. Let's allow people to be nominated for the citizen's assembly (you have to collect a number of signatures from your local area), then let the people of that loca… (View Post)

I suspect that ship has sailed, though. The question for me is whether there is an increased risk? And to understand why we have been told that UK intelligence services don't believe that there … (View Post)

I don't think that is quite right. The brilliance of the campaign was that Brexit was an assumption - "get it done" was not campaigning *against* the EU; the message was that the whole… (View Post)

Thanks everyone for your insights and good humour over the last turn around the sun. Here's to 2020 and whatever notables it brings. (View Post)