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Nice when people learn from experience. The story does not say that the NHS systems are compromised but there is "concern". French IT outsourcer Sopra Steria hit by 'cyberattack', Ryuk ransomware suspected You know, the firm that runs half of NHS Business Services French-headquartered...

Meanwhile, back in blighty, the government's intention to get driverless cars onto our motorways next year have suffered a little bit of a blow: UK insurers warn against go-ahead for self-driving cars on motorways Government plans set to start in 2021 risk lives and are ‘hugely wrong’...

I wonder what Covid-19 is doing to its recipients. Anything that approaches herd immunity, whether intentional or due to appalling policy mistakes, is a massive experiment. At least with vaccines, even of it takes a long time to appreciate the issues they might have caused, we can stop using...

How do you identify them before they have done their spreading and super-spreading?

BBC reported: Conservative MP quits government job over free school meals A Tory MP has quit her government job after voting for a Labour motion to offer free school meals during holidays until Easter 2021. Caroline Ansell said vouchers were not a long-term solution - but they helped families...

There are ethical issues in vaccinating those who run no risk for the benefit of those who do run a risk. In general, it is held to be unethical to use an intervention on those who have no possible gain but nonetheless do bear some risk (as even the safest of injections could cause an issue -...

Struth, was a messy business politics is. Rudy Giuliani faces questions after compromising scene in new Borat film Trump’s personal attorney has indiscreet encounter with actor playing Borat’s daughter in hotel room during pandemic

Poor Priti Patel: Appeal court quashes UK policy of removing migrants with little warning Judges emphasise migrants’ right of access to justice under common law in blow to Priti Patel The court of appeal has quashed a Home Office policy of removing migrants from the UK without access to...

But if he had gone further still, Pentland Firth beckons...

Tell us what we all know! Cummings lockdown trip undermined government, says ex-civil service chief Lord Sedwill says it was a ‘mistake’ for Boris Johnson’s chief aide to drive to Durham...

Just been reminded of this: “I can confirm today that for the first time, we are past the peak of this disease. We’re past the peak and we’re on the downward slope, and we have so many reasons to be hopeful for the long term,” Johnson said...

Circuit breakers only come into play when the (electrical) system has a fault. Which sort-of sums it up.

Well, force is being used. Government fails to reach deal with Manchester over tier 3 Covid restrictions Boris Johnson set to impose England’s strictest restrictions after last-ditch attempt to strike deal fails That will go down very well, won't it?

So we end up with a PM who spouts Latin or Greek, fades out rather than finishes sentences, and manages to confuse at every word uttered. The hands, knees and bumpsadaisy (or whatever it is at present) I find impossible to remember. Just three simple words. I know the words. I know what it is...

I keep wondering whether letting Johnson in was a worse mistake. And Gove, et al. Often seems that Farage might have found it so very difficult to get anywhere if he actually had a job to do.

Back in the USA: “If somebody held a gun to my head and said ‘tell me what it is to be a conservative and a Republican and an American today, I’d just say ‘shoot me, I have no idea’. There’s no coherent theory of government. There’s no moral center to it.” Some harsh words on the modern...

Does anyone else expect SAGE to be disbanded/dismantled/scrapped? Maybe replaced by an ouija board in the jockey's downstairs bog? (Needless to say, at HUGE cost.) 'Scarred for life': Sage experts warn of impact of Covid policies on the young Government accused of failing to protect...

I had a hospital ultrasound appointment. Last Saturday. The chap who did it was excellent in every way. They were trying to get the queue down as far as possible before the second wave hits. So he was working the whole of Saturday - appointment originally 17:30 but was called and asked if I...

Fire-break in Wales. :) If it really is necessary, better early than late.

If they are so averse to mask wearing, should they be banned from flying. Just in case, you know, oxygen masks are required due to a de-pressurisation event. No (inhalable) anaesthetics for operations? And if they actually get Covid-19 and their oxygen saturation drops, ??? (Yes, there will be...