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Now Gibraltar... Spain and UK reach draft deal on post-Brexit status of Gibraltar British overseas territory had been left out of deal announced on Christmas Eve Negotiators from the United Kingdom and Spain have reached a draft deal on the post-Brexit future of Gibraltar. “Today is a day for...

How to get an honour. First, break minimum wage laws... https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/new-years-honours-tesco-ceo-knighted-minimum-wage_uk_5fec8bbbc5b66809cb35e819?utm_hp_ref=uk-news As well as the Ratcliffe under-payments.

I couldn't help myself re-reading that as: ..and as Scotts porage Oates said, .."and I may be some time " Must be cracking up.

I've often felt pain is largely a function of skill. A lot of people I am in contact with either get blood drawn regularly or have frequent injections. Why blood draws vary so much is a mystery - after all, there is nothing going in! Simply must be a combination of variability in the...

There have been zero Pfizer/BioNTech vaccinations here - in Pembrokeshire. Anyone allocated one has to go to Carmarthenshire. (Just started heavy hail/sleet.)

I suggest we need a new approach to political statements: Gavin Williamson 'absolutely confident' schools will be ready for mass testing Education secretary says he is sure secondaries will be ready with extra week to prepare OK - so he makes that claim - or any other claim. There should be...

Speaking of holding things in hands: I hold your hand in mine, dear I press it to my lips I take a healthy bite from Your lovely fingertips My joy would be complete, dear If you were only here But still I keep your hand As a lovely souvenir Has he turned the UK into a grand souvenir shop? (We...

I'm in the very tough on donations front. Beyond the obvious of accepting a cup of tea (or other trivial hospitality), they should not take anything. Merely having to declare benefits has been shown not to be sufficient.

PC?

It's flipping cold out there...

Last night I glimpsed a program in which a teacher had helped a pupil to overcome a stutter - by playing music through headphones. Seems the teacher was inspired by The King's Speech. The boy was then shown making a brief speech to the school assembly - with hardly a dry eye because everyone...

Peston, dear boy. I do believe his somewhat odd vocal patterns are how he now overcomes his stutter - which used to be terrible. Deliberate, yes, but for a pretty sensible reason.

They do keep saying we are on the cusp of personalised medicine. :)

There are, it appears, 7 approved and another 55 in development. https://www.raps.org/news-and-articles/news-articles/2020/3/covid-19-vaccine-tracker

I haven't checked but I suspect it starts from 23:00 GMT Thursday?

Aye, aye, cap'n. :) How on earth can you determine the ex-works price of a doll's eyes? How much is a doll without eyes worth? Not much, I'd guess, unless an old and beloved one owned by an individual. Is the price of a doll's eyes different to the incremental value they add to the doll? And...

No - they test the flu vaccines each year. With trials. As I understand. It is just that the whole set up can be put on a calendar and, although dates might be missed, the plan just needs some elastic in it. What they need to do will be more or less identical every year. This was very different.

Absolutely - needs must and there is even some evidence it might be better to not follow the original licence terms. I said right from the beginning that, as soon as a vaccine has been rolled out to enough people to prove basic safety, I will have it (when offered). Those on whom it was tested...

A certain wry amusement over the way they are ignoring the basis of the licence for the vaccine and changing the time between doses. I am NOT saying they are wrong to do this. But almost every day I see someone being mistreated by a doctor who insists some aspect of a medicine's licence must be...

Food for the paranoia merchants. They knew about Covid-19 in 2018!! https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/supply-unlicensed-medicinal-products-specials :)