As a cynic about QC certification, I wonder how much that indicates an actual increase in quality control standards and how much it merely indicates that with more defence money sloshing around more … (View Post)

A country having an inflated view of its own power and importance? That's not exactly uncommon... (View Post)

The wikipedia page says that "Gillick competence" has always been about the under-16s. For 16-18 the assumption is that the young person has the choice to give consent or not. https://www.n… (View Post)

What? Canada did mix-n-match of AZ and Pfizer for 1st and 2nd doses starting in June or thereabouts. (View Post)

It's not clear to me that 80 billion pounds of savings very unevenly distributed has the same benefit as 80 billion pounds of savings evenly distributed, though. The latter means everybody has a… (View Post)