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Yeah - I don't doubt that there is a big issue about adults being infectious whilst not symptomatic - in fact there was a fuss a while back because somebody from the WHO (I think) said 'you know what, unsymptomatic adults are really non infectious' and then had to backtrack and say 'actually, it wou...

Science nerd question. Any ideas gratefully received. One of the reasons 'we' think schools might reopen normally in September is that young people are very bad at spreading CV - they are generally non-symptomatic and have their own very low 'R' rate. On the other hand, young people are 'superspread...

Because my concentration span is limited forgive the mindless intervention, but since my workplace transferred to my home I have been obliged to access multiple new softwares for the purposes of various kinds of online communication including skype, skype for business, Microsoft teams, jitsu, zoom,...

I think what Starmer's done is to closely and directly follow Johnson's lead with Cummings and Jenrick and so on - he's looked his opponents in the eye and said 'Fuck you, I can do whatever I want and there's nothing you can do about it'.

Thanks for all the hairdressing responses. I'll let my son know about July 4th. I suspect he'll hold on. He's been getting the same haircut from the same hairdresser since he was about 3 and I don't think he's going to change now unless he absolutely has to. I let my friends cut my hair when I was ...

A story which for some reason doesn't appear as a main headline but tucked somewhere down the page Britain nearly went bust in March, says Bank of England Britain came close to effective insolvency at the onset of the coronavirus crisis as financial markets plunged into turmoil, the governor of the ...

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God, Nick Cohen's column on how the RCP/Spiked crew prove that the far left are just like the far right. You know you do have to consider the possibility that when this lot were the RCP they were fucking idiots, and now they're Spiked they're still fucking idiots. The big thing they've always had in...

I'm a big fan of Tony Banks too. As a complete by the way, I was reading Slaughterhouse Five again recently and came across something I'd never noticed before. Vonnegut has a lot to say about the severity of the raid on Dresden, very understandably and very properly, but when the point comes where c...

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Air Force One for Boris? RAF plane for VIPs gets a union jack makeover
The prime minister’s plane, also used by royalty, is getting a new paint job costing £100,000 plus

£900,00 plus. Carry on.

And how big is a desk in your school? It does beggar belief that our genius government didn't realise schools would have to double in size to accomodate students under social distancing, or perhaps dangle half the pupils from the ceiling. And even if you decrease the 2 metre rule to 1 metre that do...

Adam, are you at an academy or an LEA school? My brother is at a nominally C of E school but still under the auspices of the LEA and he's hearing horror stories from teachers he knows in academies. Academy. I have no idea at all what's going on with other people at school. I think the arrangements ...

Warm here- walk this afternoon in a tshirt and a hoodie and I could have taken off the hoodie if I wasn't the sort of miserable sod who would rather wear an extra unnecessary item of clothing than carry it.

Sky if you want an unlikely little taste of Goth can I recommend The Great British Sewing Bee on iPlayer at the moment? I saw it the other night but they were making flamenco dresses, evidently I must have missed something darker. The woman who made the dracula inspired flamenco dress mentions how ...

And talking of which I got to see how much effort teachers are putting in working from home and how much of a response at least his school was getting back from the pupils. My brother's a science teacher for 11 to 16 years olds and every day he was at home (he had to go in to the school two days la...

I am no longer off sick and am now allowed to be working from home again for the next fortnight before going in with a friend who lives here and is only going back because she has to at the end of her maternity leave, but she's been isolating pretty much as strictly as I have and I can walk to hers ...

Sky if you want an unlikely little taste of Goth can I recommend The Great British Sewing Bee on iPlayer at the moment?

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Now look out, my country's patriots are hunting down below
What do they know of England who only England know.

Wonderful stuff

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It's interesting that the QCA and the exam boards are already talking about having to have alternative final assessment arrangements in place for next year.

I think the only thing that can confidently be said about the Government's strategy is that it's based on one idea. Fuck it. Let's set a date and just see what happens. We've got away with it so far, we've got a big enough majority that nobody can actually stop us. So. Fuck it.

Very good and decent intervention by one family.

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Also from the numbers around yesterday... * 4456 newly infected - 40% of them contacted * Those 40% named 4634 contacts, so 100% of newly infected would approximate at 11585 contacts - so a perfect system would trace 11585 people. * They claim to have traced a third of identified contacts. 1/3 of 46...

He was also going for the 'are you really going to criticise all of these other people trying hard to do their jobs' line. Which would be better if the 'other people' weren't his mates given state-funded contracts that they're failing to meet. Apologies if I've said this before but I imagine the gov...

It's like Cummings talking about going in six months or so - they can get the wrecking job done and walk away. It's strange to talk calmly about the leadership of the country in this way but it's very difficult to think what else is a reasonable explanation of what's happening.

Following on from myself, that piece also says, about not extending transition... Boris Johnson believes he would struggle to sell to voters the extra £10bn in financial contributions and further spell of EU control of UK laws that this would bring. ... which is more absurd nonsense. He'd struggle t...

I know this is old news and it's also back to Johnny Obvious time but still, in here - The pandemic is being used as cover for a no-deal Brexit - which is a guardian article this morning, we have... On the other side of the same coin, there are growing fears in cabinet that maintaining close EU ties...

Possibly of interest to adam, from the G liveblog: It is not clear if teachers must return to work if their schools are open Asked whether refusing to do so for safety reasons would be seen as a breach of contract, Johnson’s spokesman stressed what he said was “a cautious and phased return” of pupi...

Tomorrow's Mail ha a story that Cummings is 'set to quit in 6 months' https://news.sky.com/story/fridays-national-newspaper-front-pages-11996503" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Good to see he's setting the agenda ! ;) ;) ;) ;) Create havoc by crashing us out of the EU trans...

So let's see, Daniel Kawczynski is an apologist for the Saudi's, the European far right, he encouraged a foreign government to scupper the efforts of our own that he sits in by asking Poland to veto May's withdrawal agreement and he has the brass necked cheek to whinge about the behaviour of a jour...

More of m'swedes.

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Of course what the 'eye test' means is 'We are pissing on you. All of you. All over you. We just don't care. We're pissing on you and we're laughing about it.'

I watched the David Allen Green video on the FT so yoiu don't have to - it's a 25 minute long line by line takedown of Cumming's statement which makes it very clear that it's legally drafted witness statement which admits only precisely what was already unquestionably in the public domain - his ver...

Pinned Tweet Daniel Kawczynski@DKShrewsbury I had to decline Newsnight interview last night on Mr Cummings as I find @maitlis to be extraordinarily aggressive,unnecessarily rude, biased & confrontational to point of intimidation. This behaviour would not be tolerated in any normal workplace so ...

I watched the David Allen Green video on the FT so yoiu don't have to - it's a 25 minute long line by line takedown of Cumming's statement which makes it very clear that it's legally drafted witness statement which admits only precisely what was already unquestionably in the public domain - his very...

Bloody idiot vicar missing the wider point and potentially providing a distraction by setting up the police as the fall-guys. Martin Poole, the vicar of St Luke’s Prestonville, asked: “Will the government review all penalty fines imposed on families travelling for childcare purposes during lockdown...

It's titchy. Show a bit of commitment.

What else is there to do?

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Another winning idea.

Never the wrong time for this. Sadly.

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One of a few truths in this? Cummings was attending SAGE meetings. He was one of the best informed people in the country about what the rules were and why they had to be what they were.

Classic Dom: Downing Street’s very own Prince Andrew.

Crace. Ouch.

Cummings' family and some of the commentariat are pushing the line that they must understand that he'd just lost his uncle. Firstly - well, in context, why does that make you any different from anybody else in all of this who did what they were told to do. Secondly, his uncle was Lord Justice Laws a...

It's day purpleton-thrice-times-cold through the looking glass, and Weston-Super-Mare hospital has closed its wards to new arrivals because of an influx of Covid patients.

I think the other thing that Starmer should now - immediately, as soon as possible - be doing is to make a long clear statement about how important it is to continue to take care despite the hypocrisy of the government - that we can continue to take care of each other even if they will only ever car...

@ Lost Soul - I'm terribly sorry. take care. x

22 days of dither and delay on coronavirus that cost thousands of British lives Scientists, politicians, academics and advisers reveal the inside story of ministers’ desperate battle with the virus before the country finally locked down “” There is a simple mathematical truth that would have caused...

Shapps reiterates that the guidance allowed for arrangements such as the one Cummings made, and that he does not think he needs to resign. Says it is important to “remain locked down, particularly if you have the symptoms”. So 'remain locked down' and 'you can't go and visit any of your family in t...

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