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LBC and 5live have had many parents over the last week, not sure if someone's trying to make a name for themselves with yet another a movement on Twatter or Facebook, calling for a 3 or 4 week Christmas holiday. "It's only right" so that their kids can see grandparents over Christmas...

100% this. Sturgeon, Johnson and the others have made the best call. Any choice is a compromise. The police and local authorities would not have been able to deal with mass disobedience of these laws.

This. The parents calling in to radio shows this week demanding this, all reckoned that as family units they'd stay at home quarantining for 14 days after Boxing Day, and the two week before Christmas. Yeah right.

There's a feeling here (not just from those evil Tories), that many people were simply going to ignore restrictions over Christmas. Aside from NSC'ers boasting about it in advance, both Mark Drakeford (Welsh First Minister) and the excellent Dr Chris Smith on BBC said exactly that this morning...

In my direct family I have a headteacher of a primary school and a teacher at a secondary school. Despite apprehensions, they’ve found that it’s run smoothly since September. The one big pain, the eternal health and safety / PPE aspects, which they say is 100% necessary. Separately our...

.... that works. Schools have stayed open over the last 2.5 weeks, whilst pubs, restaurants, some small shops and gyms have closed. Low and behold, new CV19 case numbers are falling, rather than the exponential rise seen up until this quasi lockdown. Our per million rolling daily death toll...

Who then take CV19 home to grandparents.

From day one in every democracy, it’s always been unashamedly NOT just based on science. If it was, Germans and Brits would’ve been kept locked up indoors as in Wuhan, food delivered by the army, until vaccines have been administered to all. It’s openly been a balance of epidemiology, and: 1...