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Karol Sikora is also very critical of the impact of the pandemic on cancer care. He estimates that there may be in excess of two million people in the UK who have not been able to access proper cancer treatment or even go to their GP with lumps, etc., since corona reared its ugly, spiky little...

This guy is a great follow on Twitter ... oncology prof at Brum medical school, and very analytical/critical of any negativity in media analysis of the data.

Local councillors usually serve for three years, but Coventry CC is four years (normally). I suspect that is to avoid too much upheaval, although in reality most of them get re-elected on the nod. It's probably better to wait for one of them to kick the bucket, then have someone waiting in the...

There were no elections scheduled for 2021 - it was the "fallow" year, so still only 18, who would have served 5 years rather than 4 without re-election.

It's worth taking a look at the Office for National Statistics data, which work on the daily death rate by date of death (if you get my drift), rather than date of reporting, which the badly-flawed PHE data quote. There were only 5 deaths in hospitals in England yesterday. How many from cancer...

An example is the Kenilworth Lido. The leader of Warwick DC was ousted from the Park Hill ward in Kenilworth by the Greens, following a fairly long campaign to try to save the Lido. Result, you might think - but the Greens were still in the minority, and the Lido closure will go ahead regardless.

They elect one-third of the 54 councillors each year (so there can be no complete removal of the whole council). In fact, there are elections three years out of four, and there were due to be no elections in 2021, but i guess those seats that were due to be contested in 2020 will be voted on...

People seem to be pretty compliant where i am, i must say, other than one berk in Pets at Home who wasn't wearing one (not my problem - he may be asthmatic for all i know), but rubbed his nose with his thumb and forefinger, then reached down and picked some product up, looked at it, then put it...

Absolutely - i thought you meant for work purposes, which might not be the same thing. You can cover your face with any old sock to comply with the coronavirus control measures - your FFP2 will set you streets ahead of most other people (provided you don't wear it on your forehead or your...

They're probably all on holiday somewhere!

The next village up from us near Evesham has a travellers' site which takes up a LOT of the police's time, and they frequently have large multi-agency operations to clamp down on their activities, including TV licensing, DVLA/DVSA, and regional organised crime units from neighbouring police...

For what purpose?

Well that was the other issue - they said that FFP2 were allowed due to a lack of FFP3s. Good risk management there, eh? The issue with FFP3 is that they are more likely to have a one-way valve, which completely negates one of their purposes: to stop infectious people from blowing their germs...

You generally take up less space (on public transport, etc) if you have your backpack on your front

Definition of staycation in the London area "We going to Margate or our gate?" :sick:

The words "uptick", "vacationers" (FFS!) and "staycation". Despise them with a passion - along with the people who use them!

No it isn't! Even if the perception was that it was needed initially, times have changed significantly for the reasons you have set out - the people who thought they needed to get from Brum to London 20 minutes quicker for a meeting (but probably at double the expense to their company) now know...

Then it's time HR recognised that HIS behaviour could well be classified as bullying and/or harassment - see how the c**t likes that!

Just hope C4 don't fuck it up - hopefully they'll leave Avalon to carry on producing it as they have thus far. I would hope that Alex Horne (in particular) and Greg Davies would resist attempts to change the format

When you said you were asking him whether he would take a VR package, was this in general conversation in the office (i.e. gauging wider opinion among your colleagues), or are you his line manager?