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I've just been watching Newsnight and at the start of the programme they had a graphic showing an astonishing statistic. Todays daily death toll for the UK was 359, the total daily death toll for all 27 countries in the EU was 314. How on earth can we be easing up on lockdown rules when our...

I get the impression BJ is trying to move everyone on now from talking about the virus but if Sharma has got Covid then its going to prove difficult for him to do that.

This picture reminded me of something similar that happened to a politician in Iran a few weeks ago when he was wiping his brow on camera and was tested and found to have the virus. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/03/business-secretary-alok-sharma-coronavirus-test-speech-commons

Well if it wasn't for Belgium then Boris could honestly say we are world beating at something. Belgium have the highest death rate from the virus per million at 822 and we are in second place out of over 200 countries with a rate of 585 per million. There are a couple of other countries with...

Here is the story, seems like they have left out some deaths, not sure if it was deliberate or just a mistake. From the Guardian, Sweden passes France for Covid-19 deaths per capita The number of deaths per capita from the coronavirus outbreak in Sweden has now surpassed that of France, as the...

Certainly sounds like the owner of this company is a con man that should face many years in prison if the allegations are proved to be correct. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/03/covid-19-surgisphere-who-world-health-organization-hydroxychloroquine

I wonder in a few years time will we be making anything in this country? I am a bit old school in this regard and tend to think of manufacturing to consist of things which contain a fair bit of metal. Perhaps with some plastics and electronics thrown in, so examples would be motor vehicles...

Nisans Global Chief Operating Head Ashwani Gupta says the Sunderland factory is unsustainable if we get a No Deal Brexit and have to operate on WTO rules. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52900528

Due to the on going difficulties experienced in the world today, a capitalist, a socialist and a communist decided to get together for a socially distanced barbecue. The capitalist and the communist turned up on time but the socialist eventually turned up over an hour late. He apologised for...

Details on this link. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jun/02/chris-whitty-vetoed-lowering-of-coronavirus-alert-level

Can't say I'm surprised with what is going on in the USA while Trump is in charge only thing that is slightly surprising is that all this didn't happen a couple of years ago. I am not condoning the violence, looting and rioting but having Trump in charge is like throwing petrol onto the flames...

When you are played in a docu-drama by Benedict Cumberbatch I think you can say you have become well known. I watch a lot of American news and financial programmes. I have heard DCs name mentioned reasonably often in them, I would not be surprised if viewers of these programmes know him far...

Is the lockdown alert level system dead on arrival? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52889711

I am a bit confused after reading an article in the Guardian I will link to it at the end of this posting. I must admit I assumed (it would appear incorrectly) that people who are infected by the virus but remain asymptomatic go on to produce anti bodies against the virus. This does not seem...

KS said something similar to BJ during PMs questions. When Boris came out with the the world beating statement, KS immediately said something along the lines of it did not have to be world beating it just needed to work. I don't think we have the culture or the legal framework (and I don't...

What makes a sport a sport? Genuine question, I think it can be difficult to define just what constitutes something as a sport. There are simple ones that we would all agree are sports such as football, rugby, cricket etc. But then there are others that are not so simple. Would you say...

Does anyone think the following idea has any merit or am I just talking out my ********. We are told that none of us have any immunity to this novel virus, I wonder if that is exactly true. I wonder if we all or at least most of us have a bit of immunity to a very low exposure to it, and this...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/may/29/drone-deliveries-soar-in-rural-scotland-during-coronavirus-outbreak

I think this story about S. Kore shows just how difficult coming out of lockdown is going to be. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/28/south-korea-faces-return-to-coronavirus-restrictions-after-spike-in-new-cases

I think the insufficient statement was with reference to a second trip that some papers suggested he made to Durham on the 19th of April. Here is the appropriate paragraph. "Finally, commentary in the media has suggested that Mr Cummings was in Durham on 19 April 2020. Mr Cummings denies...