My hunch would be that a second lockdown would really be seen as a political failure in a way that the first was not. I hope a second national lockdown is less likely though given that we have now ha… (View Post)

It is sobering to think how much impact decisions made in that week had. In a sense, being a week late is a small mistake with gargantuan and horrible consequences. Macron announced lockdown on March… (View Post)

Yes, tricky issue for Starmer to navigate. He's smart though. If he says Begum belongs in jail, that hopefully threads the needle of sounding tough, whilst also actually upholding the law. Might… (View Post)

Interesting piece in Economist on state of journalism and the demise of objectivity as a... well an objective. Commercial pressures also suggest a shift will continue. https://www.economist.com/books… (View Post)

This looks like very good news on T Cells and COVID. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.29.174888v1 (View Post)