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)
Traditionally that they can't afford the paper to print on. The inflationary effect of printing money to fund a spending deficit tends to be exponential, if you keep going to the bitter end in doesn'… (View Post)