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"Nobody warned me drinks event was against rules - Boris Johnson" is currently running on the BBC. If I'd managed to allow myself to be baited into saying that, I'd crawl under a rock and d… (View Post)

But the whole point of stockpiling is to be able to deal with a pandemic. You're meant to expect that you're going to need to use lots of it! That's why you do it! You're meant to stockpile for 6-12 … (View Post)

I don't disagree with the facts, but with the conclusion drawn from them. If not the European nations, alike in linguistics, law, standard of living, religion, demographics, history, technological de… (View Post)

The weird thing here is that we ought have had enormous stockpiles of PPE, of the kind that would make panic buying unnecessary. The UK was rated as #1 in the world for pandemic preparedness precisel… (View Post)

But it's self-evidently daft. Our languages are European, amalgams of Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Norse and, via French, Latin. Our primary religions are either Protestant (in common with the rest of northe… (View Post)