Very much this. Despite no major change in personnel, except for the drawn out exit of Cummings, I see a drastically different government. Gone is the bluster, the blind optimism and the three word strap lines, replaced by a more measured, more sombre, more honest demeanour.
Those things...
Agreed; I was being a tiny bit tongue in cheek however commercially it does stack up - I’m not sure interest in a watered down Euros will be as high as normal.
For the reasons you mention though, it wouldn’t happen.
What I would take from each of those respective quotes, is that we didn't know what we didn't know. They each look absolutely ludicrous in retrospect (the first one especially so), but I don't recall them being widely ridiculed on the day they were originally uttered.
At the outset we had no...
It's a good point, and I think there needs to be an open conversation about what to do with case data. Up to now it's been relatively straightforward; total cases translate to a fairly consistent number of hospitalisations and subsequently deaths. They are also largely identifiable through the...
First impressions of the plans are that they are sensible, empathetic and strikingly different from the lockdown easing of last summer. Though I and many others lauded the reopening of pubs at the time, that they reopened before schools hasn’t aged well.
It does seem as though lessons have been...