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This is a really good piece from the Guardian on R values and the possibility of a second wave later on in the year. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/28/coronavirus-infection-rate-too-high-second-wave

Did anyone hear the following on the radio this morning. An expert was talking about copper, he said that surfaces made out of copper or have a copper coating do not allow the virus to survive on them. The ions in the copper kill the virus in seconds, so things like metal door handles of shops...

I would be astounded if the Tories were to select JRM. During the last election they hid him away from the public after his gaff over the Grenfell tower tragedy. If I had to put money on it I would think the next Tory leader will be Rishi Sunak, he is the only minister that has looked half...

Perhaps just lulling them into a false sense of security and waiting for the right time to strike with a hum dinger of a question.

This article in the Guardian mentions it will be the Home Office and not the Treasury that will look into it. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/26/vicars-query-over-lockdown-travel-fines-challenges-hancock#maincontent I wonder if the Government are still happy with allowing the...

Politics is a dirty business flecc and he is one of the dirtiest of them all. He produced all kinds of lies during the leave campaign. I read a book about it all a while back and even some of the most stringent brexitier MPs were embarrassed by some of his tactics. If you live by the sword...

Something else that didn't exactly inspire confidence. Did anyone notice the last questioner in todays daily briefing, he told Hancock that it was only recently that his local hospital in Cumbria had been given fit tests for their masks. Hancock completely miss-understood this question and...

I think Hancock was completely floored with that question, you could see the fear in his eyes he hadn't got a clue how to answer it, I almost felt sorry for him.

Kier Starmar is keeping fairly quiet about DC, do you all think this is a deliberate strategy. If he comes out and tears into Cummings then the Tory party will rally around him. If however he keeps out of it for a while at least, then there is a chance more and more Tories will demand DC...

I was wondering if any research would be done on the sports events which went ahead even though many experts were saying at the time they should be cancelled. Details here. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52797002

In Sweden some people are so impressed with the country's health chief Anders Tegnell, that they are having his picture tattooed on their arms, incidentally Sweden has a much higher death rate than many countries close by. I have heard a whisper that once lockdown is finally over, Tommie plans...

I was half listening to one of the news channels lunch time (not sure which one) and they were sort of half hinting that DC might bring up something about a certain health problem. They were not clear what they meant but I got the impression they might have been talking about something to do...

The Guardian have the story here. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/may/24/can-you-imagine-having-to-work-with-these-truth-twisters

Yes, its always good to get back on track!

I haven't explained things very well in my post. The words inside the quotation marks are not Starkey speaking they are from a poster on another forum. He was talking about an article Starkey had written for a right wing publication in which he was blaming the NHS for all the deaths. The...

I think some of you might want to read the following. Its part of a post from another forum. Its a financial forum that has quite a few fairly right wing posters (not uncommon on financial forums I find). The poster is answering some of the points brought up by the right wing historian David...

This is worth a read from the BBC web site. Its about the risk of catching and dying from the virus. There is a graph from David Spiegelhalter that compares the risk of dying if you get the virus vs normal annual risk. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52758024

I wonder if he will be able to spin his way out of this?

Do you all think we could lower the 2m distancing rule? The WHO, Hong Kong, Singapore, France and China all say 1m is enough. Australia, Germany and the Netherlands recommend 1.5m and South Korea has 1.4m. No matter what the distance is I doubt I will be sitting in a cafe for a long time, but...

Really! I thought we all agreed with him that the moon landings were fake.;)