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In my day 'O' levels went from 1 to 9, with 1 to 6 being passes, the rest fails. 'A' levels went A,B,C.D,E.O,F - A to E being passes, O being an A level fail, but counted as an O level if you could be bothered ........................................ and F was what you'd expect F would stand for!

Yes, it was. I thought I managed it with a bit of elan though .........................

OK, just a bit of friendly hindsight then! :)

Aldi's canned pangolin jalfrezi - you haven't lived till you tried it!

Isn't that a bit like after-timing?

Well, TBF, if the Chinese government had clamped down on their wet markets, and passed and enforced draconian laws to outlaw the human consumption of bats, rats, cats (including coronavirus infected tigers), pangolins, spiny ant-eaters, monkeys, aardvarks and any other random mammals that failed...

Looking at that first paragraph again, another thought occurred to me - having been on my fair share of protests and campaigns for some of those causes - and that is that I remember there were always a lot of other young idealistic white heterosexual males there, as well as me!

OK, I'll retract the 'woke'! :)

We probably don't agree very often, but that's an excellent post. Spot on. :)

Oh dear, Woke'R'Us by the look of it. Let's sneer at old people because now we're much more tolerant with the LGBT people, with the BAME community, more equality for women, yes, so the world is a better place than it was 50 years ago, you stupid old gits ....................... So who do you...

Well said. And of course, Gove's instincts have always been to stab in the back. It was Gove's 'instincts' that landed us with Theresa May as PM too, remember? Nasty little shit - makes Boris quite likeable by comparison ................. Another point that many of Boris' critics are missing is...

He didn't say we had over-reacted; he said that some people (so called 'experts' of one kind or another, I guess) are saying that we over-reacted. Whatever viewpoint anyone has these days, no matter how crackpot, you can almost certainly find an 'expert' somewhere who will agree with it!

Maybe something to do with the fact that the opposition party has a credible leader, one who moreover has expressed a keanness to work with the government.

Yes, one epidemiologist, two epidemiologists ..... fly away Peter, fly away Paul ................................. Sure, probably everyone can find an epidemiologist that will satisfy their personal take (or that of the paper they read). The Mail and The Express will broadly support what this...

Yeh, that's a fair enough opinion. I guess that once we're through this what we'll never know is what differences different strategies and actions would have made - would strategy X have been better than strategy Y - or would it have made it worse?

As Foreign Secretary, a post he was deliberately given to keep him quiet, possibly not that much. Wouldn't have been involved in the decision, perhaps?

Corrected for you. Anyway, what's that got to do with "How do you think Boris has handled it so far?"

Yes, we know, and two thirds of us think the government is doing OK or better (see the poll). No idea what all that stuff about rotary clubs is all about.

No, you didn't, but some people (as stated in my post) did. The idea that the Government spent weeks sitting on their hands with their fingers in their ears is almost on a level with the bloke who claimed they had years/decades to prepare (:facepalm:). They were following the advice of the...

No we didn't. It had already happened in China before we knew anything about it. The WHO first recognised it on 31st. December; the first case in the UK occurred in late January - less than a month later. The first death was recorded 6 weeks further on. Some people's definition of 'months of...