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The PFI was a tory creation, John Major started it in 1992*, Blair did not start it, he only continued it. May I remind you that back then 1997, zero interest rate was only an academic subject of discussion. At the end of Gordon Brown's time, public finances were still OK. We have to wait until...

Two PMs are outstanding: John Major and Tony Blair. The rest are pretty poor performers. One thing was true then and will remain true for the foreseeable future though, to gain power, you need to win over middle England. That could not be JC, that's why BJ got elected.

Can you put a number to it? Compare that number to what Gordon Brown and the conservative party inflicted on this country then we can see who are the best PMs in the last 50 years. Sure, we can discuss the subject.

who's got the short memory? When Blair got elected (1997), national debt was 40.4% of GDP. When he left (2007), national debt was 36.4% Don't even talk about national debt in the Johnson's years. In 1997, public sector debt as % of GDP: 1997/98 – 40.4% of GDP 2007/08 – 36.4% of GDP 2010/11...

admit it... you are worried about the prospect that KS comes good at the next election. For all the time I have been here in the UK, the only time when things actually worked was the Blair years. Now there is a prospect of Blair Version 2, it's a no brainer really.

as I understand, parliament delegated the practical implementation of covid regulations to ministers, so what BJ announced on TV on the 17-DEC-2020 and 18-DEC-2020 can be enforced by police. I am pretty sure that the two police guarding the door of No 10 that day (18-DEC-2020) knew pretty well...

I disagree. Johnson went on TV the day before and also on the day that the alleged party took place to repeat the government message: do not hold parties and repeated 'this message is vital'. More than 500 covid deaths were reported on that day.

that's not a fair comparison. At last PMQ (01-Dec), BJ avoided to answer a simple question (was it true that you guys had a party last year while the country was in lockdown?) with a simple yes/no not because he does not know the answer but because he knows the consequence if he answered yes...

it is relevant. You want everything to be reduced to simple yes/no but the job of a PM is more than just looking for simple yes/no answers. Johnson is lazy and inept, the country deserves better. He should go.

you are wrong there. The Daily Mirror broke the story on Tuesday 30 Nov, KS took it to PMQ on Wednesday 01 Dec. Rayner asked Simon Cask to investigate and refer to the police on Thursday 02 Dec. you are joking, right? The guy is a liability, stop defending him.

it was the Daily Mirror that first reported the story. As it was on the subject of one rule for Tory elite, another for the rest of us, it fell to Angela Rayner's sphere of competence. She duly did her job and asked the police to investigate. Now it turns out that there were not one but two...

I watched him talking about the AZ's blood clotting (reaction of adenovirus on PF4). 442 cases of suspected CVT, 73 deaths in the UK. Old Dr John Campbell veers to the quacky side a bit. I don't think the current way of injection was responsible for it. The point is we already know for some time...

what negative information?

SW does not care you get a jab or not but besides him, nobody on this thread is anti-vaxxer.

I understand the difference, but that's been the common basis for trials for yonks. As I said before, they sold several billions of doses on flimsy evidence. I am happy with the relative risk reduction though. You need to convince zlatan, not me.

Natural selection does not need to be very intelligent. The immune system of the recipient does all the work. Each individual who got the double dose and subsequently infected with covid will produce dozens of viable variants, not all will succeed better than the original variant but those that...

Look at how long it takes to make a prototype of mRNA vaccines. They made a bunch of samples in just 2 days (AZ, Pfizer, Moderna) and picked the best for production candidate. The only reason we got them so quickly is because a) MRHA waved them through acceptance quickly on emergency basis and...

Another way is to reset the unfurl attribute in the link from unfurl="True" to unfurl="" to avoid this kind of problem.

As far as I can make out, the current crop of vaccines are not very effective. Those based on mRNA suffer from issue of dosage and too much specificity, requiring new versions to be manufactured each time WHO identifies a variant of concern. Good business model for the producers though. those...

I reckon your quoted sentence does not truly reflect the tone of the written piece. You should have added: "said Anne von Gottberg, microbiologist at NICD. "