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Seem to be Live on BBC today from 06:00 to 18:00 (with a gap or two for news). What more could you want?

Bloody "me me me"! Doesn't suit the rest of us - we'd rather she walked. Like the head of Joint Biosecurity...

According to Zoe, I think they said 20% have already uninstalled it.

Another U-turn. NHS Covid-19 app will be updated - only contacts within 2 days rather than 5 resulting in a ping. As of Monday.

Currently closely following an appeal re a Competition and Markets Authority decision. This is what the tribunal says: First, the Tribunal may hear appeals in respect of decisions applying the competition rules found in Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (“TFEU”)...

Oh yes, I agree. It was me being facetious. With them not even allowing a confirmatory brexit vote.

All too many people have said that they really couldn't give a damn and would vote for him again.

Can we have another brexit referendum if it is our settled will? Scottish independence vote will happen if public wants it, says Michael Gove Gove says referendum will occur if there is ‘a settled will in favour’, as Ian Blackford says voters have already spoken

I'd like to think so. But if we imagine an inquiry, a Supreme Court case, whatever else, all coming down heavily on this, there will still be vast numbers who vote tory. Many years ago, I met a young USA citizen - can't even remember the circumstances. What is still there, though, was that...

At one time, it would have been fairly amazing for the Financial Times to be the paper publishing this: Elite Tory donors club holds secret meetings with Johnson and Sunak Conservative ‘Advisory Board’ is part of co-chair Ben Elliot’s mission to modernise governing party’s fundraising efforts...

Shapps is irrational says High Court. (Re Stonehenge tunnel approval.) Now when will they rule on the rest of them?

ONS says: In England, the percentage of people testing positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) continued to increase in the week ending 24 July 2021, though there are possible signs that the rate of increase may have slowed; we estimate that 856,200 people within the community population in England...

Zoe have a new video:

Lots of suggestions that people are avoiding getting tested - largely due to the consequences of waiting for results and costs. Also, many have deleted the NHS app (in England and, possibly, Wales - no idea about S & NI). And Zoe suggests:

Today, the CMA fined Advanz and a couple of other companies £100 million for exploitative price gouging over many years - in relation to a thyroid medicine Liothyronine which I have previously mentioned. Now, the PM: ‘Completely unacceptable’: Drug firm Advanz fined £100m for making thyroid...

He hasn't lost his golden touch. Donations to RNLI rise 3,000% after Farage’s migrant criticism UK lifeboat charity raises £200,000 in single day after CEO hits out at Nigel Farage’s ‘taxi service’ claim

Where did that come from?

There just might be a tiny bit of justice in the world: Opinion: COVID-19 — but not the vaccine — is a risk for male fertility By Ranjith Ramasamy These small studies find reduced sperm counts and a risk for erectile dysfunction...

Which takes me back to an early memory of cheese - processed, flavoured. It was in packaging about the same diameter as Dairylea but probably twice as thick. And with something like 16 segments in four or more flavours. Loved them! That was foiled German cheese as it was in Berlin in around 1960.

To foil the Germans?