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Bear in mind that a face mask will become contaminated with lots of other bacteria and viruses. We do not want them to be breeding grounds for any of them, even if they have relatively low disease-causing capability.

So the exemption from quarantine should perhaps be on the basis of testing - not just job title. And quarantine should apply until such time as test results are known. Both to ensure that those who could pass it on are identified before they do so. And to release those who can be released as...

We are sort-of moving to 3. -ish. Maybe. Jane Deith, Channel 4, asks about easing of lockdown using Covid alert system. If alert level hasn’t changed, what has? Jenrick says we are still at 4, but moving to 3. Says steps that are being taken are modest and cautious and “entirely consistent”...

Just suppose, to humour me, I am a doctor. My wife is a nurse. My daughter is a care worker. My son works at the bus company. My parents are retired and live in a remote house (perfectly contentedly, I hasten to add). We decide to go on a holiday abroad. (Mad, but we are like that.) Completely...

You missed out world-beating. (I see no need for a system which only applies within the UK to beat anyone else, anywhere else. Just needs to be good enough even if it is identical or marginally less good than other systems which don't apply here.)

Ever felt ignored and disenfranchised? MPs furious about forced return of ‘physical voting’ to Commons Elderly members or those with health conditions fear they will be disenfranchised by the move, which ends remote participation I end up hoping that JRM and the baying tories all go down...

They keep saying this but, of course, the vulnerable have always been able to go out. It has always been their choice whether or not to abide by the guidelines (unless they are unable to do so by themsleves). And, for people lucky enough to have reasonable or larger gardens, where you can keep...

Looking at member's financial interests for Hancock, I noticed this: Name of donor: Tim Luke Address of donor: private Amount of donation, or nature and value if donation in kind: £3,500 for my leadership campaign Date received: 13 May 2019 Date accepted: 15 July 2019 Donor status: individual...

Perhaps we should persuade Johnson NOT to sack Cummings? Tory poll lead collapses as voters say Cummings should go More than two-thirds of voters want Dominic Cummings sacked and Tory lead over Labour plummets The survey by Opinium for the Observer shows a massive 81% think Cummings broke...

I am no lightweight, but have to say there are some Tesco staff who appear to require the covid rules to continue. There is now enough space for them at a till (the tills are in pairs but only alternate one are in use).

I think this sort of hypothesising has a lot of potential for identifying what to look at. If you take the super-spreader concept, perhaps at Liverpool football and Cheltenham nags there were only a handful of people who infected anyone else. But because they were among so many others, the...

I missed this yesterday: On Friday evening Theresa May added her voice to the Tories criticising Cummings. In a statement to constituents of her Maidenhead seat, the former prime minister said she could “well understand the [public’s] anger” towards Johnson’s senior adviser. “I do not feel...

They probably only include their own nationals...

How have really hot and sunny countries been doing? Kuwait? Iraq? Iran? Saudi?

I have written to my MP who has broken cover and said that he is not best please by Cummings. Also wrote to my MSs and councillor re the Wales restrictions. If you have people withjin five miels you can go meet them, in gardens and parks. But car parks at parks (and beaches) are all closed...

He has been working on that during his delivery in the daily briefings. I can find lots about the first drone flight to the Isle of Wight - then silence (or just repeats).

BBC reports that this is a change - "new rights"! There are 300,000 BNO passport holders in Hong Kong who already have the right to visit the UK for up to six months without a visa. But the Home Office confirmed that the proposed new rights, allowing those eligible to spend 12 months in the UK...

Number changed from 350,000 just the other day.

What was that about reducing immigration? Three million Hong Kong residents 'eligible' for UK citizenship Home Office decision infuriates Chinese government and could risk backlash among traditional Tory voters

And hope his home broadband is through TalkTalk... That would really cut him off.