https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxes/publicsectorfinance/timeseries/dzls/pusf I see that August has been revised down by around £4bn. (View Post)

Liverpool will stuff them on Sunday. (View Post)

I think having skipped last winter, we're going to have a bad winter at some point. Perhaps we should try to avoid it this winter, but at some point we're going to have to pay the price for… (View Post)

From earlier... Week ending: COVID deaths, non-COVID deaths in excess of the five-year average 09/07/2021: 183, 386 16/07/2021: 218, 229 23/07/2021: 327, 324 30/07/2021: 404, 679 06/08/2021: 527, 624… (View Post)

I reckon some deaths are with COVID, but the more interesting question is, how much life is being lost? We're all going to die at some point, but clearly COVID was taking years off some unlucky … (View Post)