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England and Wales getting Covid-19 exposure app on 24/09/2020. Two weeks after Scotland. Months after NI and RoI. And I expect there will be next to nothing that actually helps over those other apps.

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As usual, Fintan has written an excellent column: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/10/boris-johnson-oven-ready-brexit-cummings-withdrawal-agreement#comment-143641328

Hmm. Might be skimpy evidence, but... Fears grow that UK is preparing to quit Brexit talks Concern grows as top EU official arrives in London for emergency talks over UK plans to breach withdrawal agreement

Sturgeon puts two fingers up to Westminster. Again. Rightly. When will we get one in Wales? (Give up if you are in England.) Scotland Launches Contact Tracing App With Apple and Google API Thursday September 10, 2020 2:04 am PDT by Tim Hardwick Scotland is the latest country to implement...

NASA has just announced their SLS system for getting to the moon will cost $9.1 billion. Johnson's moonshot is being billed to cost around fourteen times that.

I am truly confused. The other day we saw this: Scotland and Wales to buy 12-minute Covid testing machines Scottish government buying 300 rapid testing machines and Wales signs up for up to 400 Now Johnson is reported to be demanding this: A new 'moon-shot testing' approach, which would...

Will this be contracted to Serco or G4S? In addition, we will introduce COVID-19 Secure Marshals to help local authorities support social distancing in towns and city centres. Adding: I see that City of London already has a marshal. City Marshal The origin of the City Marshal can be found...

The speaker appears to have threatened Hancock with having to answer an urgent question every day. For failing to announce the new measures in the HoC despite having been there hardly any time before.

They are all bonkers: Matt Hancock, the health secretary, has been giving interviews this morning. He has refused to rule out a further national lockdown. And he has also offered an explanation for why many people have been finding it impossible to get a coronavirus test. It is because people...

Not sure how to factor in the severe delays being reported between test and result - e.g. all too often five days or more. The longer the period, I suspect the more are likely to pass on infection. Also, just what happened to the random testing which was supposed to inform the "real" rates...

Why is state aid such a red line that the rubicon of legality is being breached? Tech ambitions said to lie at heart of Britain’s bonkers crash-and-burn Brexit plan State aid needed to nurture the UK’s first-trillion dollar tech company, political puppet-master claims...

Your challenge for today. Place "Brexit thinking" in the correct place in this list Aladdin's lamp Ambrosia Excalibur Manna Nibelungen ring Philosopher's stone Soma

Down to six meeting for those in England as of Monday. Oh dear. :( This decision has been made on the basis of increased positive tests. Despite people unable to get tested, not getting results for the best part of a week, etc. If plenty of tests had been available, would they have made the...

I don't see it like that. If you lose all your experienced civil servants, you end up losing your ability to do the very things you want to do. And it might not only be civil servants you lose:

Marianas Trench, here we come!

I think you are ignoring those who, because they die from Covid-19, will then (obviously) not die of whatever else they otherwise would have died from. Each person with a life-limiting cancer who instead dies of Covid-19 reduces the number who die of that cancer.

Must become rather tedious after a few years. The rest are immortal?

They are useless but I'll say it in very measured, clear terms:

And pretty bad when the government wantonly break the law: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2020/sep/08/coronavirus-uk-update-politics-live-johnson-chairs-cabinet-following-health-chiefs-people-have-relaxed-too-much-warning And even May puts the boot in - or should that be the...