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Two separate internet and phone cables severed in Shetland. Looks like a warning from Russia? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-63326102

There used to be a lot of principled MPs like him

Soooo. Do we reckon this is the bottom or things can still get worse?

They could have kept the triple lock and saved a lot of money by changing the definition of inflation. Using, say, the average inflation rate over the past 5 years. It still would have stung but been less damaging economically and less damaging politically. As it is Truss has pissed everybody off, something she seems to have a unique talent for.

I know its childish but there are some great memes around 😄

Serious question. Why would tyou give any weight to the COVID views of somebody who is a former nurse, has no stats background and got his doctorate in media communication? I worked in Public Health epidemiology then managed two infectious diseases wards for five years and still wouldnt claim to know. Should I be posting up covid hoax videos?

One day in your life. Two vids, 5 hours apart arf.

I know its just a still photo and so can be misleading - but Mordaunt looks to be concerned about her.

Good windows though! I just saw this guys post from inside his house during the recent Hurricane flooding in Florida

Ja. Don't borrow Kwarteng's

Paradise

Is it a gesture of goodwill, a movement to better positions or because somebody might smoke near something they shouldn't?

Oh ffs! Is there nothing she can get right? Her letter to Kwarteng was signed by......Kwarteng

I used to loathe him. Its a measure of how far things have fallen that he now seems like a slightly safer pair of hands.

Depends. Did they infect more people who themselves died because they werent vaccinated? Did they each cost tens of thousands of pounds in hospital treatment unecessarily? Did they prevent others from accessing swamped NHS services and so other people suffered?

Not all bad news then

So what? They knew it was safe. They knew it greatly reduced severity of illness and saved lives by reducing viral load. They knew that reducing viral load had in previous vaccines reduced transmission from person to person. There were very good grounds for an assumption that this one would also have preventative effects but there wasnt yet evidential proof. I dont know why you or this duffer think this is news. The link posted above to an article a year or so after the pandemic started made it clear that proof was building then.

Dont think anyone, except maybe some over eager politicians, claimed vaccination stopped transmission. It was always about reducing transmission and reducing transmission rates inevitably did save some lives. If not your gran then somebody elses. https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/mounting-evidence-suggests-covid-vaccines-do-reduce-transmission-how-does-work?gclid=Cj0KCQjwy5maBhDdARIsAMxrkw2igHWGoJ98TwvT9UBTC8HpsbXt9fROxNZjV749kUXwVUsg7-J9jP8aAr-hEALw_wcB

Remarkable people. Monday missiles and 24 hours later

The temperatures on the Crimea bridge got hot enough to melt steel, and Russia reckon 'nah its safe enough to use'

I see you've joined the tedious wanker grouping. I used to think better of you

It been answered already, try reading. China is allowed to manufacture some mainstream chips under licence - such as from ARM in the UK and Intel in the US. That enables them to mass manufacture high tech goods. We get cheap smartphones they get jobs. What they do not get access to are the more advanced and sophistcated chips used in civil avionics and arms. Although China is trying to develop its own semiconductor industries they are still a decade or more behind. In any event even if they had them they will not jeopardise hundreds of billions of trade with the US and Europe for a few hundred million dollars worth of sales to Russia.

China's own media discussing something Egg insists isnt happening.