This is exactly the kind of minutiae which there is no point teaching a native English speaker, though -- I bet none of those A-Level students ever said or wrote "I am liking him". It'… (View Post)

From the header, isn't it a bit early to declare that covid "isn't seasonal" when we haven't yet got a full year of experience with it? (View Post)

Better still, swab everybody as they enter the *departure* airport, and avoid one person infecting others on the plane over who then in the first few hours of their infection would likely show up as … (View Post)

Maybe it's the civil service's grand plan to appear to be doing what Cummings wants while actually changing nothing of importance :-) (View Post)

Think of it as a kind of "risk budget" -- say going down the pub has a risk of 4 (utterly arbitrary numbers for sake of example), and going down the local shop without a mask a risk of 2. S… (View Post)