Why is London like this? I drove through the centre of Bath at about 10pm last Saturday night, there were hordes of young people about, pubs looked to be doing a roaring trade. My northern hometown i… (View Post)

It's the short peice of time thats critical. Wearing of masks in public is very undesirable for lots of reasons, the only positive is that it reduces the transmission of a disease which apart from in… (View Post)

Set by whom within government? Probably by a civil servant in Health rather than by a government minister, almost certainly not Johnson himself. Again in hindsight it was the stupidest decision of th… (View Post)

I'm not sure how much blame for all this mess should be attached directly to Johnston, but my instinct is that it wouldn't have mattered much who was in power, they would all have done the same thing… (View Post)

There are some upsides as well as downsides. My young lady hasn't been to her office since March, and therefore has saved a small fortune in commuting costs with almost no downside. She'd like the wo… (View Post)