Population was 25million at the beginning of the year. No wonder there is a curfew :0

The late Brian Sewell said that it was impertinent to refer to your degree unless it was pertinent to your job or current role. I suspect he would have applied the same criteria to other professional […]

I think the issue with big outdoor events is not the size of crowd once in the ground. Chances of catching Covid seem to be about 300:1 greater if you are inside. The lack of any spike in cases following the […]

They will all happen again at some point, some earlier than later. My original thought was that even ‘earlier’ will be too late for some of our more venerable performers, who are now in their late seventies.

The key thing will be whether this, or any other test, can be guaranteed to pick out people without symptoms who may still be infectious. At first glance the test currently being talked about isn’t quite that […]

In fairness, the Government is already channelling large amounts of cash into a number of the sectors you mention. And few, if any, of the people involved in the public sector provision of health or education […]

Not all over 50s would need to, if that’s any consolation.

I don’t know the dates for Diana Ross, but the Mason shows are in April, aren’t they ? If so, then it does look increasingly unlikely that they will go ahead if the only prospect of them being viable is if a […]

Possibly, although it’s easier to control where people sit in a stadium as opposed to where they stand in a field, e.g at a festival. And that assumes outdoor events. Gigs indoors are an entirely different […]

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.