If you mean sick people with COVID, I don’t believe the NHS have been overwhelmed anywhere in the country, at least certainly not in the same as was experienced in parts of Northern Italy

On the subject of the efficacy of lockdowns, statistical research from a JP Morgan employee throws up some interesting stuff. Of course, JP Morgan have an agendaof their own, but even so it is interesting stuff. […]

Yes. I work in a hospital and my wife is a probation officer, so we will be going to work as normal. We work in a part of the country with relatively few jobs where people can work from home. People are either […]

Our local hospital has 600 beds and about 30 spaces in the mortuary, with room for a few more if necessary. That’s for a community of about 300,000. No doubt part of the reason for a swift change in strategy […]

Sadly, where I live and elsewhere in England, the poorer old people would have to wait until free bus travel started. The wealthier ones ( and this bring Dorset there are a fair number) would doubtless be delighted.

The reality is that perspectives and expectations change. People nowadays don’t expect to outlive their children. Parents in Victorian England had every expectation of burying quite a few at a relatively young […]

For those reading the online version of the Guardian, what do you expect? It’s a news website that makes money from people visiting it frequently.

As as to some.previous posts in the thread, I was reminded […]

On the other hand, there is nothing remotely niche about the biggest selling vinyl records. And I suspect that the bulk of those aren’t sold in independent re Ord shops. Pre users the sort of buyer one might have […]

To be fair, the Hollies would have a bigger catalogue of poptastic hits. I wouldn’t pay , say, £136 to see them either. If people are doing something that actually improves on what they did originally ( Leonard […]

The list of RSD releases seems to become more niche and appeal to a narrower group of people with each succeeding year. Seems a very odd marketing strategy.

My favourite is Donatello.

Were it not for the Brexit vote being split, I suspect Jarvis would have lost his seat.

A very minor point, but Henry II wasn’t English in any meaningful sense of the word.

As an aside for anyone planning to let it to Dublin or similar. If the UK or English economy goes down the pan, the implications aren’t great for our neighbours.

In amny of thr places I am talking about it is going to take a look time for that to happen.

Locally, it perhaps didn’t help when a few years back JC attended a rally of local government candidates.. He had spent the morning canvassing in and around Bristol, before travelling to the south coast for the […]

I suspect we over-emphasise the impact of the media and also doubt that the machinations of the security services ( if they exist) have much impact. I live in an area with very many former Labour voters. They are, […]

Also worth noting that in 1980 tens if not hundreds of millions of LPs were sold, presumably with some economy scale in terms of both production and distribution.

Also worth noting that in 1980 tens if not hundreds of millions of LPs were sold, presumably with some economy scale in terms of both production and distribution.

Prior to his election as party leader, Jeremy Corbyn wasn’t even viewed as a suitable leader by the PLP Socialist Group, even though there were only about a dozen of them.