Theory: Nu and new sound identical and would cause confusion; Xi would cause the Chinese to throw a massive strop. (View Post)

And the Austrian, Belgian and Dutch outbreaks all appear to have taken off at around the same time, but have been even more dramatic. However, the likelihood of this having been caused by a super-var… (View Post)

It's vague waffle. One strongly suspects that, in practice, a Liberal Democrat-run system would be utterly disinterested in throwing anybody out of the country, because it wouldn't be nice.… (View Post)

Precisely. Reporting of the situation with cases lacks nuance, because nuance would mitigate against panic and reduce the attention garnered by these daily doom reports. Cases in the over-60s are cur… (View Post)

And so, we move swiftly on from catastrophising over lockdowns and even the end of civilisation, based entirely on reports of the umpteenth new Covid variant of which we know almost nothing, to extra… (View Post)