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After you, and a further three weeks. Jacob Rees-Mogg tells MPs to 'set example' and return to Commons Call contradicts Speaker and government advice and will put staff and MPs at risk, say unions Jacob Rees-Mogg is on a collision course with the Speaker, unions and fellow parliamentarians...

Well, that was an easy one for Kier. Starmer asks Johnson to return to Commons to correct care home guidance error Sir Keir Starmer written to Boris Johnson asking him to return to the Commons to correct the record about the coronavirus advice issued to care homes. (See 12.47pm.) In a letter...

Testing. Testing. 1. 2. 3. Someone has just posted elsewhere: Today the army were doing testing in the local shopping centre, but I don't know whether if was for the rt PCR test or an antibody test. Anyone here heard of the army doing testing?

From the department of "Who'd have thought it? I wonder why that is happening!" New US coronavirus hotspots appear in Republican heartlands Surge in infections in red state towns and rural communities Rise in cases contradicts Trump assertion of rapid decline...

Have any of them lost Obamacare?

I see the test spammers have started. COVID-19 ELISA Antibody and PCR COVID-19 testing service I have reported it - anyone know how quickly spam gets taken down? This is the first time I have felt the urge to report a post.

And this possibily surprising locus: The remote Cumbrian town with the UK's highest Covid-19 infection rate Barrow-in-Furness has fewer visitors than the nearby Lake District, yet has one of the worst death rates outside London

When the government's own advisor feels the need to write this article for public consumptions, something has gone very, very wrong. Transparency is key in a crisis - so why isn't the British government being straight with us? Stephen Reicher Contrary to popular belief, people rarely panic...

And why the sea is boiling hot —

Looks even worse when you consider that there are lots of people where only one of a couple drive (whether by choice or due to health issues). So grandfather (say) drives to park, sees offspring, then drives home, picks up grandmother, drives back to park and waits while she goes to see same...

I have not yet found any definitve, properly researched, information about swimming in freshwater lakes. Given the obvious possibility that others swimming in the same body of water might be infectious, I'd be at the least cautious.

No UV lights? Many years ago, when I had a temporary job in a hospital. A man arrived in A&E with a glass jar up his rectum. He claimed that he had been driving and thought he had diarrhoea so put the jar under his bum to prevent messing the seat. Then drove over a bump. Have no idea whether...

Did he have them or were they picked up from others? Fully agree about the costs.

It really is news when he has anything worthy of calling an "idea".

Starting with lighting! I suspect we will see untold numbers without any lighting, or with such severely deficient lighting they might as well have none.

Hancock trying to defend the indefensible. He said it was sensible to limit such meetings to public places rather than private gardens, because the latter could require people to walk through one another’s houses, which was less safe. Instead of spreading people across thousands, millions, of...

Now this is what I call testing: The Chinese city of Wuhan is drawing up plans to test its entire population of 11 million people for Covid-19, state media report. The plan appears to be in its early stages, with all districts in Wuhan told to submit details as to how testing could be done...

I commend the Imperial War Museum for having their finger on the pulse! Is Your Journey Really Necessary?

He asked, naye, begged, for the job and now appears to resent having to do it. (Please do not take that as saying he is actually doing it.)

My main point was the way Johnson seemed to be taking personal credit and no responsibility - despite this sort of prediction/estimation/modelling.