In the PM's #DailyBriefing on 11 May, we were presented with this slide.
I understood at that time that in order to move from 'current social distancing measures and restrictions', the Joint Biosecurity Centre had to change the COVID Alert Level to Level 3 - and that changes were dependent on this.
I understand that we are still at COVID Alert Level 4. My question is: how does the PM justify the change to 'gradual releasing of restrictions' such as opening schools when the Joint Biosecurity Centre has not moved to Alert Level 3? Is this overruling the JBC? @instituteforgov
It has today been confirmed that we are still at COVID Alert level 4, not level 3. The move to reopen schools appears to contradict what the PM said in the #dailybriefing on 11 May.
"Inflation is currently 10%. If inflation halves, how much will a £1 pint of milk cost".
Sounds easy. It's not. It's ambiguous. It's not a good question. Unless it's designed to be a bad question. In which case it's a good question.
1. It talks about 'inflation'. But *what* inflation? At the moment, we have overall inflation at roughly 10% but inflation of food at roughly 20%. So is the overall inflation rate the same as the inflation rate for milk? It's not clear. Bad question.
First, the @ONS Covid Infection Survey is being paused, and @CovidGenomicsUK is being retired. This will have implications for data reliability and availability going forward.
OK, I'm going to write a response to this maths problem, published in @DailyMailUK, that has caused a lot of comment, some thinking the answer is 1 and some thinking the answer is 9.
Many of us would go straight to the answer 1. That's because we know (or our children know, and have taught us), that there is a 'rule' for how you deal with the order of doing the calculation - do you do + first or ÷, for example?
Enter BIDMAS (or BODMAS).
"It stands for Brackets, Indices [or Order], Division, Multiplication, Addition and Subtraction."
That's the conventional order. Forget about indices [or order] for now - that's not important for this one. bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topic…