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This is exactly the sort of unsubstantiated, second hand, social media rumour that I'm inclined to believe 100% :thumbsup:

You might well be onto something and I'd not even considered it before. If you think "airports and transport hubs" then Brussels has the Eurostar and all the traffic in and out for the EU administration and so on that is there. For some obscure reason I recall from a John Simpson book that more...

Very interesting. Back in the day The Telegraph had one of the best sports desks in the business and I regularly took part in their fantasy cricket. A lot to do with our own Paul Hayward perhaps, who I heard is leaving. I read other bits and pieces too and it's fair to say I didn't always agree...

No. When you have people booked onto a face to face course that have paid for it you would have to offer a refund if it was cancelled. Like many other organisations they were not in a position to refund or close down until the government put in place actual lockdown laws.

OK, good points. I don't necessarily disagree (Boris going to Chequers was a disgrace) but I would add that they were also briefing about lockdown starting the weekend before it did. I think this was in the psychological reaction phase and it did cause people to stay in and distance more in the...

I think that more proves my point. If no two countries are reporting the number of cases and deaths in the same way then you cannot statistically compare the success of their lockdowns. I'd still rather focus on the tangible. People in care homes have been effectively murdered. PPE has been in...

It is interesting to see the boot put into Johnson by the Tory press (or at least little bits of it, I suspect other Torygraph writers might be a bit more kind but I don't really read it since it went behind paywall). However, this early lockdown / no lockdown comparison with other countries...

Someone's mentioned Thatcher?