Observations of the UK and its Earthly neighbours
Our great leader, Honest Boris the Incorrupt and Competent has had quite a week of wriggling. The long-awaited Gray Report on 10 Downing Street parties during the Covid lockdowns was released yesterday. It wasn’t flattering to Johnson, other than as a host. Johnson’s standard explanation (standard for a while, but into overdrive in the last …
Continue reading “An Apology: Work, Party, What’s The Difference?”
Last night Honest Boris Johnson scraped a parliamentary victory only with Opposition Support. The most incompetent and corrupt UK Prime Minister of the modern era was opposed by 100 Conservative MPs voting against measures to protect people from infection and death from a pandemic. I’m not quite sure where you begin with that.
Dear Rishi, Long time no hear, how are you? And the wife and kids? I have a question. I read this morning that our friends in the International Monetary Fund, the world’s overdraft bank, have created $650 billion in SDRs (you remember special drawing rights, that made-up currency they use that works as real money). …
It appears the pandemic’s been cancelled. Honest Boris (used cars and UK health decision maker-in-chief) has declared the country will return to normal on the 19th of July. All evil/socialist/foreign restrictions on British Liberty, like masks and closed nightclubs, will be done away with and we’ll be a Free People again… at least in England, …
Continue reading “Covid Over, Herd Immune Already? What’s the Safe Age?”
The majority of EU countries, and a half-dozen others, started using their Covid certificate today. It’s a standardised way of proving vaccine and test status, and thus a way to allow unrestricted travel. It looks an awful lot like this . Maybe I should reconsider my career options. Isn’t it amazing what countries can do …
Remember this one, Deal of a Lifetime? The IMF reckoned by spending $50 billion we could innoculate 70% of the world population, save the world from Covid, and make a 17,900% return on our investment. It needs 11 billion doses. The G7 crew are in the UK today. They’ve pledged 1 billion. Honest Boris is …
Most of those likely to die are vaccinated, so it doesn’t matter if everyone else catches Covid, right? Mmm not quite, for three reasons. There’s many who can’t vaccinate. With few infected they’re probably safe, but when there’s lots of it about they’re at big risk. Some of them are refusers and we mightn’t feel …
Yesterday Sir Kevan Collins quit his role as Bloke in Charge of Fixing Education Post-Covid. He was disgruntled at the mere £1.4 billion the government proposed to spend on resolving all education problems caused by the pandemic. He himself had done a good proposal, and reckoned the cost to be £15 billion. I don’t see …
Continue reading “UK Government’s 10% Commitment to Education”
You can punctuate the title any way you like. Tim Harford’s More or Less is back on BBC Radio 4. Everyone should listen to it. Whether you’re a statistics nerd, enjoy hearing statesmen get caught out fibbing, just like learning facts of the world, or (like me) all of the above it’s worth every minute. …
Grima Wormtongue aka Dominic Cummings had his day on camera today. It sounded great fun. Honest Boris is ‘unfit’ to be Prime Minister, ‘tens of thousands’ of people died unnecessarily from Covid due to government incompetence, Hancock the health minister is a liar and a fool. The thing is none of this is news. We’ve …
Continue reading “Dominic Cummings told a load of truth. Will it make any difference?”