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Is Stanley Johnson is also pointing his finger at the PM's progeny?: On Friday morning Johnson’s 79-year-old father also issued thanks. “Relief is the right word,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, adding: “I feel tremendously grateful obviously on behalf of the family, Boris’s family, my...

List their names and everyone who enabled this. And at least 14 days quarantine in one of her majesty's establishments, paying for the privilege. French police turn back private jet of holidaymakers from UK Party of 10 flew into Marseille-Provence airport to be taken by helicopter to luxury...

Just what the hell do they think they are doing? It seems Cambridgeshire Police have raised eyebrows on social media with the news that officers attended Tesco in Barhill, Cambridgeshire, this morning and checked “non-essential aisles”. Judging by comments on the post on Twitter, this has left...

I can't get an expression out of my head: chip off the old block.

Stanley Johnson is uttering crap: He added: “To use that American expression, he almost took one for the team. We have got to make sure we play the game properly now.” Just how does his son's catching of covid-19, and potentially spreading it around others, count in the USA sense of jumping...

I agree that resignation is a clear option - but it would precipitate the replacement issue. And heaven forbid that any replacement accepted the job and then clear evidence of them breaking the "Stay at home, protect the NHS, save lives." policy appears... In shades of Joseph McCarthy, they...

The Guardian story ends: “I will be staying at my family home until government advice changes or if I am needed in person in Westminster before the parliamentary session resumes after the Easter recess.” ... or if my parents decide they'll ring up and ask me to get some medicines for them...

High spirits. Good spirits. Extremely good spirits. And it appears no-one (significant) has talked to him. It all reads as "what can we say next time?"

0.5% of the population is, I think, nearer 333,250. From your link: Our best estimate of the infection fatality rate is in the range of 0.5% to 1%, ranging from 0.01% in the under 20s to 8% in the over 80s. Which could be up to 666,500. I find it very concerning that we could be going down...

Am happy if they keep 10 metres away from me. :) But they don't. They want to keep running regardless - and seem to expect me/us to move out of their way. Maybe I exaggerate but they certainly don't expect to stop to ensure an adequate gap.

So he's out of ICU. Just wondering, will the PM be able to claim £10,000 for working from Downing Street, when he gets back?

We have been told innumerable times that the coronavirus affects everyone, no matter how rich or important. In which case, let the payments for working at home be equally even-handed. (And just why should they be paid extra for working at home when HoC is in recess?)

There are times at which it is tempting to suggest a blacklist of addresses/phone numbers/people for 999 calls. Plea for public to stop calling 999 for Covid-19 tests THE Welsh Ambulance Service is appealing to the public not to call 999 for a Coronavirus test. Some patients have been...

On the other hand, it does not necessarily follow that a disease which affects ethnic Chinese will affect Inuit in the first place! (Though I strongly suspect it will.) So far as I know, race might have some sigificance in how it affects people, but no race appears immune. So there seems a...

I hope they have been properly disinfected, just in case. It really wouldn't look good if they all got covid-19: With the traditional Royal Maundy Service unable to go ahead today, the Queen has nonetheless marked the occasion, by personally dispensing Maundy money to pensioners across the UK...

If you knew, with a high degree of certainty, who would be in each camp... If partner and I were in the "mild" group, and chose to get infected, spent a fortnight indoors, all done from our personal points of view. Further, knowing who would only be mildly affected implies knowing, at least...

Thought: What we actually could do with is a good way of identifying those who will only get a very minor illness. Try to get as many of them (which could include me) as possible infected so that a huge number of people become immune. Possibly within a fortnight, or not too much longer. (Or at...

I missed this, but Emily spoke well: In particular, the BBC presenter rebuked using confrontational language in relation to the illness and swiftly took down the idea that Covid-19 is a “great leveller”, highlighting that it has hit key workers and those on low incomes the hardest...

Not at all sure that will be possible - the sheer scale makes it a gigantic challenge.

The mechanism might be unique, but the reactivation is very well known. Chickenpox and shingles being a prime example. The advantage for herpes zoster is the incredibly long time between origianl infection and re-emergence as shingles - plus that we have both a treatment (aciclovir) and a...