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Yet more warnings of disruption to medicine - on top of previous stockpiling/warnings for brexit and then covid-19. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/aug/04/uk-warns-drug-firms-to-stockpile-in-case-of-brexit-disruption

... especially if they offered free tickets. You might end up with absolutely anyone on board. :D

I know of a public conversation which is doing exactly this. (Not a UK site but readily accessible without any need to sign up or any such issues.) I have no reason to think the posters are anything other than ordinary members of the public, though some might not be in the UK. No individual is...

Afraid that if there were, say, ten possibilities and nine continued to be visible in many ways (e.g. holding surgeries, writing articles, even saying that it isn't them), it rather identifies who it is by elimination.

That this has only just received this publicity says so much about the whole sorry mess.

Have to say, I'd be distinctly unhappy if a doctor arrested on suspicion of rape were left to continue seeing patients. Are people expected to continue visiting (virtually or otherwise) MP surgeries with this member? Discussing sometimes very private issues. Can an MP under such suspicion...

I'd be interested to see, say, People's Daily Online (in China) being successfully sanctioned.

I didn't say that he should not be anonymous. But it is next to impossible to see how he will remain anonymous. This is a perpetual problem for anyone who can be even partially identified by their public role. I have no real answers.

In this case, to the extent of him continuing to work as an MP. BBC reports: They removed the whip from Julian Lewis fast enough. Obviously rape is far, far less a crime than upsetting Johnson and Grayling.

... Grasshopper.

I see huge swathes of speculation as to the identity of the alleged tory ex-minister sexual assaulter. No - I am not intending to post anything which identifies anyone. Just wondering when the name will leak or otherwise appear in public? After all, the other possible candidates (in his...

Funny how none of our politicians seem to have been recruited within the EU. Oh! Wait. It said "brain drain". https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/02/brexit-fuels-brain-drain-as-skilled-britons-head-to-the-eu

But there surely isn't a hope in hell of being able to both find and afford insurance that would cover any such situation. Is there?

If there is a government ban, I don't think they have any right to refuse a refund. But best of luck arguing it through - and taking them to court. M4 through to Carmarthen and beyond was pretty darned busy earlier. Am hoping the majority are going to Tenby, south Pembrokeshire. As individual...

What a lovely summary: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/aug/01/steve-bannon-hails-dominic-cummings-and-predicts-lurch-to-right-for-no-10 The only thing that matters is what I think matters, right now. Everything else can go down the pan.

Perhaps schools should apply for alcohol licences?:D

Can't remember ever using zinc cutlery. :) (Mind, some kitchen devices have bits made of zinc.) Last house had a galvanised water tank. (Replaced it just before it rotted through. Thankfully.) Wonder whether that had any effect whatsoever? Is zinc a good antiviral? Copper compounds are also...

Ironically, silverware - if indeed made of silver - is likely safer than equally imperfectly cleaned cutlery made from stainless, plastic, etc.

I suppose no-one in the UK cares about this minor news item: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/07/31/apple-and-google-update-exposure-notification-api/ Oh! Except NI. Of course. And thank goodness they've improved interoperability between countries. That will really help us.

Something like thirty years ago, my step father died of Alzheimer's. My mother had looked after him as long as she could, then he was admitted to a hospital, which was unusual. For much of the time since, then, she put lots of effort into various ways of getting funding to Alzheimer's...