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Just saw a different interpretation of the Hancock affair: Denial of L-T3 Liothyronine ~ The Great UK Crime Against Humanity Secretary of State for Health & Social Care Matt Hancok did not resign because of an affair, and anybody who thinks that will believe anything they are told. The...

It is different because: HMRC expressly tell us that VAT will have been charged - no ifs, no buts; Lots of reports of not being charged any VAT - none of items being seized; Grossly unfair to end up paying VAT plus charge by carrier for collecting that VAT when impossible to anticipate; It ain't...

Has HMRC made a mess of VAT on imports? If you buy something under £135 and there is a Online Marketing Portal involved, the portal will add 20% VAT. Then nothing to pay on actual import. If there is no OMP involved, but still under £135, the seller must register with HMRC and charge 20% VAT...

Of course, I'd be far more likely to trust someone who wears a mask and maintains separation than someone who doesn't.

There is no-one to insist on anything round here. No Sainsbury or Waitrose either! :)

Frozen chips and pizza were well stocked.

I've already seen people not bothering with masks, not leaving gaps - even when easy to do. They are simply ignoring rules - I'm sure advice will be even less effective. And pots of hand sanitiser are often empty. Few are sanitising baskets and trolleys.

But if all restrictions are removed, people won't be wearing masks, won't be maintaining distance. And I can see people stopping the placement of hygiene facilities.

Was in Tesco earlier. Not sure what is happening - might be refurb. - but one entire chilled food gondola was empty due to being replaced. Yet there were gaps all over the remaining ones. And another whole gondola of food has been totally removed. Yet there were gaps and gaps. Fruit and veg...

Follow the data, they said. Which this isn't: Sajid Javid: Covid restrictions in England ‘must end on 19 July’ New health secretary says country will have to learn to live with virus, and easing will be ‘irreversible’ What does it mean to learn to live with something you can't see and can kill...

I wasn't pointing at any of the posters here - but you don't have to go far to find people who claim they are recipients of amazing information, the one truth. not available to anyone else. (Even if plastered over half the internet.) And that is without getting into religion!

Transmissivity seems to be top of the list. Plus variable responses - some of us seeming to cope and rid ourselves when others don't - though whether that is genetic, dietary, other diseases, etc., who knows?

There's no issue with speculation and examination of evidence. There is an issue when it goes off half-cocked and converts these into accepted "truths".

But those points only adjust your suspicions. You perception. Not the reality. The suspicion about a sequence of amino acids has been widely dismissed as interesting but in no way proof. There are other viruses with the same or similar sequences.

Very significant, I agree. But the other things I mentioned have been around for decades, centuries, quite possibly millennia.

There is no truth in the rumour that the government has been on eBay bulk-purchasing petards, self-hoisting for the use of.

Yes - engineers and statisticians do manage to discuss such things. But only when they apply lots of effort, and study the subject. And in my niche of medical information, the inability of those who should know better to understand is devastating. Imagine you have a shower in your bathroom...

Did the contracts for building and security specify "no filming of ministers in compromising positions"? If not, it shows how incompetent they are at making contracts. As if we needed any further evidence. And, of course, this quote: “The innocent have nothing to fear” - words famously...

I hope no-one starts a war... UK military chiefs self-isolate after head of army catches Covid Defence secretary and heads of Royal Navy and RAF all isolating after Gen Sir Nick Carter’s positive Covid test or even a shindig in the Black Sea.

I don't think our brains and language are very good at thinking and writing about uncertainties. Yes, it is something that must be considered. But we need to be careful not to make it appear to be a proved case unless and until it is. (Just there, I almost put "case until", then realised the...