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Figures released yesterday (Friday 5th) showed London’s R rate has dropped to a best estimate of 0.6 to 0.8 — the lowest in the country — suggesting infections are heading for a significant decline over the next few weeks. The figure means infections may be falling anywhere between two and...

It's questionable. I'm not at all happy about the intent to lose the competitive tendering of the private sector against the NHS, Firstly that kept the NHS on its toes to be more efficient. Secondly it could mean the end of NHS Redirect allowing us to choose where we have our free NHS...

And that's the value of China and it's growing strength. US power needs to be balanced by power elsewhere, especially now with the loss of the USSR to a weakened Russia. .

Only one of mine has a PL number, the second medicine has a PC number. .

Huge choice! In the USA's democracy they elected a dictator who said he refused to relinquish office and got his supporters to attack the seat of government to assist him to stay in power. And we got too close for comfort with Thatcher. These pretty much define all embracing choice. .

Or I'm getting slower on the uptake, I am 85 ! :) .

Apologies, I did wonder if sarcasm was intended but was unsure! .

Of course that's their view, but it is wrong of course. It is a one party dictatorship without the all embracing public choice intrinsic to democracy. ,

Doesn't always follow though. I was cycling lifelong from the early 1940s and there were no cycling helmets until very recent times, so I didn't bother with them even when they did eventually appear. I've never banged my head in any road accident so a helmet was never needed. The same went...

Dutch cyclists have a low death rate compared to us, but astonishingly their government report that 40% of their circa 200 deaths per annum are with no other person or vehicle involved. About 80 of them killing themselves in isolation somehow each year. .

Indeed this is widespread. It's such a pity since it was so easy to handle the distribution and application much better. Every local authority has instantly on tap the precise number of people in each age band from their computerised electoral register and those numbers should have been used...

It's the defect of democracy, potentially as dangerous as a single person dictatorship and often far less efficient than a collective dictatorship. Just look at the efficient way China's party led dictatorship handled its internal Covid-19 pandemic. And all sorts of other crises over the...

What a load of rubbish that commentary is, as I know from being in the trade then. Everything we were making had to go to pay off our war debts, not sold because it was good but given as what we owed. As a dealer we couldn't get new bikes for the home market, that year we were allocated just...

I'm not surprised and it's quite likely to have a racial basis with Pfizers German connection. There's still lots of anti-German sentiment about, partly due to WW2, partly due to the EU connection, we even see it in this forum frequently. In the 1960s I bought a very rare car at that time, an...

The various authorities just can't stop making a mess of the vaccination program. Latest is that the Barts Health Trust messaged invitations to get a vaccine that were meant for NHS workers to hundreds of school teachers instead, so many of the schoolteachers have got injected well before their...

It's still the original 5000 doses, the distribution was very badly done with excess in some places and far too little in others. For example many northern areas had far more than necessary for their over 80s so went onto the 70s and even reaching many second doses for 70s and 80s, while...

And now he's deleted it ! :D :D :D .

We've only ever had one known Polly in this forum's membership list, many years ago. He was Spanish living in the mountainous north east and rode a BH e-bike with the second series Panasonic mid drive motor. His membership name Polly was his son's idea of a joke and his posts, like many other...

Polly makes his first post ever ! With just a dud link ! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D .

How true that is. Makes me wonder of that is what is fundamentally wrong with cabinet government. .